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The Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare (CAQH), a nonprofit alliance of health plans that seeks to simplify administration for payers and providers and enable better care for patients, has announced a partnership with VeriSign, Inc., the Mountain View, Calif. network infrastructure company.
The two of them will launch a pilot program that aims to demonstrate a secure data exchange that could be a model for national health IT interoperability.
President Barack Obama will soon nominate Donald Berwick, MD, to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, according to a statement released Saturday by Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee.
When President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act last week, he also made permanent The Indian Health Care Improvement Act, the cornerstone legal authority for the provision of healthcare to Native Americans.
Tenet South Florida, a region of the Tenet Healthcare Corporation, has opened an on-site medical clinic at the BankAtlantic headquarters in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Thomson Reuters has released its annual study identifying the 100 top U.S. hospitals based on overall organizational performance. The study reveals that even in tough economic times, top hospitals show a profit while raising the bar on patient care.
MedAssets, based in Atlanta, has announced that Huntsville Hospital, based in Huntsville, Ala., and including Huntsville Hospital, Huntsville Hospital for Women & Children, the outpatient Medical Mall, Madison Medical Park and affiliates Athens-Limestone Hospital in Athens, Ala., and Helen Keller Hospital in Sheffield, Ala., will deploy the company’s revenue cycle management solutions for claims management and claims audit and resolution.
Congress approved a healthcare reform "fix" bill on Thursday, completing the healthcare overhaul victory for Democrats. The fix bill adds changes that House Democrats had wanted in the healthcare reform law that was passed by the House on March 21.
For all the excited talk about the potential for IT to transform the healthcare industry for the better, many doctors are skeptical about the future, according to a recent survey conducted by athenahealth, the provider of online practice manag
A federal court has sentenced the owner and operator of a Los Angeles-area durable medical equipment company to prison in connection with an approximately $1 million power wheelchair fraud scheme.
A new report shows that between 2001 and 2006 a growing number of Americans faced a high financial burden from healthcare expenses.