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By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | November 14, 2007
CHICAGO – Despite broad-based efforts to encourage physicians to use health information technology and electronic prescribing, penetration among physicians of IT remains woeful, and the chief ba...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | November 13, 2007
CHICAGO - The Federal Communications Commission is joining the healthcare networking fray, announcing a plan today to create a pilot program to deploy broadband health networks. Annou...
By Bernie Monegain | 01:00 am | November 13, 2007
Health plans need to do more to inform their members on a number of healthcare topics and do a better job alerting patients and doctors on needed cancer screenings, a new national survey concludes....
By Bernie Monegain | 01:00 am | November 13, 2007
BOSTON - Provider-to-provider telehealth technologies could save healthcare as much as $4.28 billion year, new research shows. The Center for Information T...
By Molly Merrill | 01:00 am | November 13, 2007
Cost is the major issue behind the top healthcare challenges for next year, as forecasted by Tefen USA. Tefen USA is a subsidiary of Tefen, a global management, consulting...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | November 12, 2007
Royal Philips Electronics has announced that it intends to proceed with the sale of its 70 percent stake in MedQuist, Inc, a US-based medical transcription and billing services compan...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | November 12, 2007
DORAL, FL - Healthcare executives looking for the next big thing in information technology or finance management at this week's Gartner Healthcare Summit are being given some rather simple advice: Big...
By Richard Pizzi | 01:00 am | November 09, 2007
NEW YORK – Retail medical clinics could realize revenues of nearly $4.5 billion by 2011, according to a new report by market research firm Kalorama Information. Retail Clin...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | November 09, 2007
WASHINGTON – Laws that require employers to provide health insurance to employees are likely to reduce employment for low-wage workers, according to a recent study....
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | November 09, 2007
WASHINGTON – The Healthcare Administrative Simplification Coalition launched a Web site Thursday aimed at helping providers cut costs through simplifying healthcare administration processes....