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By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | June 14, 2007
A report ranking all 50 states on how well they deliver healthcare estimates that bringing lower-scoring states up to higher-scoring states' standards could save 90,000 lives annually, insure 22 milli...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | June 13, 2007
Shareholders of Triad Hospitals Inc. have approved the company's acquisition by Community Health Systems Inc. Under terms of the merger agreement, Triad shareholders will receiv...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | June 13, 2007
As consumers take on more responsibility for the costs of their own care, they're going to demand more information about what healthcare services will cost them, according to the results of a study re...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | June 12, 2007
Doctors and healthcare executives could lose money if they don't take advantage of the year-long National Provider Identifier rule contingency period to get things up and running, according to Martin...
By Chip Means | 01:00 am | June 12, 2007
Federal funding for a program to cover children lacking health insurance runs out in three months. Most states, even those experiencing funding shortfalls, are looking at various methods of expanding...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | June 12, 2007
Pegasystems, of Cambridge, Mass., has announced the availability of Predictive Execution Optimizer, PXO, a business process management suite that links BPM execution to business intel...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | June 11, 2007
The Department of Health and Human Services announced late Friday the resignation of David Brailer, MD as vice chair of the American Health Information Community. Brailer, form...
By Chip Means | 01:00 am | June 07, 2007
NEW ORLEANS – Demolished hospital facilities, an exodus of healthcare workers and a skyrocketing number of people requiring urgent care are part of the legacy of havoc that Hurricane Katrina dro...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | June 07, 2007
LONDON – Picture archiving and communications systems (PACS) have moved mainstream in North America and Europe. The imaging systems, once regarded by clinicians as pricey and cumberso...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | June 07, 2007
HILLSBORO, OR – Luis Machuca is a man with a mission. He wants the nation’s health plans to realize they won’t survive without change. “They haven’t changed...