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There is a great deal of resistance to healthcare reform because industry players make so much money from the current system, according to George Halvorson, chairman and CEO of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals.
With an infusion of funding from the federal stimulus package, healthcare providers should look at what barriers are blocking a radical leap forward in healthcare information technology adoption.
The American Medical Group Association has launch an online database containing salary and financial operations data from medical groups nationwide.
Employment at U.S. hospitals fell 0.7 percent in March 2009 to a seasonally adjusted 4,709,900 people, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported last week.
Colorado Governor Bill Ritter issued an executive order last week directing the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing to craft new safety guidelines, including the denial of payment for avoidable medical errors.
The U.S. Congress has an inadequate understanding of the cost savings that healthcare information technology can provide, said a Pennsylvania Congressman at HIMSS09 Sunday.
Nearly $36 million in funding is being distributed to the 54 State Health Insurance Assistance Programs to help people with Medicare get more information about healthcare choices.
Missouri’s safety net healthcare providers are seeing increased numbers of uninsured patients and are incurring new financial strains as a result of the changes made to Missouri’s Medicaid system in 2005.
They say necessity is the mother of invention. If true, one could make the argument that if a stalled credit market is necessity, then leasing and used equipment purchasing is the invention.
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