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Three Congressmen are re-opening questions regarding physician-owned specialty hospitals after a patient died in Texas last month after a procedure in one such facility....

WASHINGTON – As President Bush’s healthcare plan, announced in his 2007 State of the Union Address, sinks in, industry stakeholders are debating the implications of tax credits, taxable he...

Navicure, a provider of automated, Web-based revenue cycle management (RCM) solutions for physician practices, has announced a new contract with the Methodist Medical Group of Peoria,...

LAKESIDE, MI - Seeking efficiency, cost-effectiveness and improved communication with patients, physicians in a Michigan-based health system have been testing a Web portal for virtual office visits. &...

WASHINGTON – Hospitals are slowly showing interest in implementing electronic health records among physicians. In the five months since new provisions enabling technology don...

OMAHA, NE – Alegent Health, a nine-hospital system in and around Omaha, Neb., is one of the first in the nation to provide consumers with accurate estimates of the cost of their care, factoring...

WASHINGTON - Twenty-seven states will look for new ways to improve the efficiency, economy and quality of their Medicaid programs with help from $103 million in “transformation grants” awa...

Fair Isaac Corp. introduces new SCDM solution The Fair Isaac Corporation of Minneapolis has unveiled a new State Compliance Decision Manager solution, designed to help pharmaceuti...

DENISON, TX – Software applications often don’t achieve predicted results and sometimes frustrate users. That wasn’t the case at Texoma Medical Center. Its three...

A 2006 REPORT that indicates there are more emergencies than necessary in the nation’s emergency departments has hospitals looking to automation to clean up the process – and the bottom li...