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Twenty-five of the 26 practices under Greene Health Partners (GHP) are now able to bill for all services effectively, calculate return on investment easily and are pulling in money faster after implem...

Aetna is initiating a program designed to encourage members to buy medications that are proven to be effective in managing high-risk clinical conditions. The Hartford,...

Efforts to rachet down drug prices aren't enough to get the most value from the Medicare drug benefit. Two health policy experts are saying other steps are necessary to save money and improve overall...

The debate heated up yesterday over the future of e-prescribing as it relates to controlled substances. Many proponents of e-prescribing say adoption could be more widespread if doctors weren't so enc...

Florida-based Lakeside Behavioral Healthcare plans to implement a number of business automation tools in order to strengthen its financial reporting capabilities. Lake...

Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt urged Congress yesterday to include a requirement for doctors to use electronic health records as part of any proposed Medicare physician payment...

A vendor of on-demand digital publishing solutions and a software development firm have announced a contest in which they will donate two mammography systems to hospitals, clinics or imaging centers t...

IMPAC Medical Systems, Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Sweden-based Elekta Group, has announced it will make a $1.6 million investment in The Michener Institute for...

Hays Medical Center of Kansas has found that using a scripting software purchased three years ago has paid off in the form of "hundreds of thousands of dollars and thousands of man hours" and improved...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued a list last week of the nation's poorest performing nursing homes targeted for increased inspection and enforcement efforts....