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To keep patients safe and save hospital costs, the St. Joseph's/Candler Health System in Savannah, Ga., is rolling out Web-based technology to track infections.
To help develop definitions for health and productivity management, the Center for Health Value Innovation announced an alliance with two national organizations.
Carroll Hospital Center in Westminster, Md., has implemented software aimed at streamlining operations and reducing costs.
President Barack Obama has declared the swine flu, or H1N1, a national emergency.
Nearly 2 million patients develop healthcare-associated infections, or HAIs, each year, which cause 99,000 deaths and $28 billion to $33 billion in healthcare costs.
SourceMedical has announced a partnership with Encircle Healthcare to offer SourceMedical’s SourcePlus Eligibility automated insurance verification solution to ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs).
America’s annual healthcare bill could be reduced by $600 billion to $850 billion if the nation learns how to reduce wasteful spending, according to a new report by Thomson Reuters.
The October Healthcare Finance News Product Spotlight provides a lay of the land in the EDI clearinghouse services market.
The federal Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has released “requests for proposals” to all 50 states to apply for grants worth $1.2 billion.
A report from the National Committee for Quality Assurance finds that the quality of U.S. healthcare was “virtually stagnant” in 2008, a slowdown after a decade of improvements.