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GE will offer no-interest loans to physicians and hospitals that buy the vendor's electronic medical records systems, GE Centricity EMR and GE Centricity enterprise technology, company officials announced Monday.

In the midst of a massive recession that has hospitals cutting projects and even staff, the Healthcare Financial Management Association needed a pep talk to kick off this week's ANI conference in Seattle.

The skyrocketing costs of the healthcare status quo are unsustainable, President Obama asserted in his annual weekly Web address Saturday.

Karen Davis, president of the Commonwealth Fund, will provide a keynote at the Healthcare Financial Management Association's Annual National Institute on how to move the U.S. toward a high performance health system. The key, she says, is focusing on people.

With a lot of the talk at this week's Healthcare Financial Management Association ANI conference on revenue cycle management, CareMedic Systems is showcasing a new product designed to bring as much of the process as possible to the front end.

With the Healthcare Financial Management Association's ANI: The Healthcare Finance Conference less than a week away, vendors are making last-minute preparations on solutions designed to improve the hospital's bottom line as well as its ability to deliver care.

Hospitals facing budget shortfalls are weary of "going green" because they think it will cost them more money - but this is a myth.

Bad debt is a problem bedeviling many healthcare institutions during these bleak economic times, as the volume of uninsured - and underinsured - patients increases.

Healthcare finance executives may be increasingly relying on metrics to improve their organizations' quality and efficiency during the economic downturn.

The first round of Form 990 submissions can be confusing with the vague definitions of what is considered charity care or community benefit, according to presenters at a pre-conference session at the Healthcare Financial Management Association’s ANI.