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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...
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...
WellPoint health ousts CFO over misconduct Top executives at WellPoint Health Networks Inc. have requested and received the resignation of David C. Colby, the company’s chief...
WASHINGTON – The use of healthcare IT can lower costs and also deliver better care, says Brent James, MD, vice president of medical research and executive director of the Institute of H...
NEW YORK – As if hospitals and integrated delivery networks don’t have enough on their plates, effectively managing the entire patient relationship or customer experience has become a busi...
Nothing tears at a healthcare provider’s conscience like debt collection. On one hand, clinicians tend to be compassionate by nature, and their training emphasizes healing patients above all els...
Charitable giving has taken a significant downturn for the nation's charity hospitals, as donations of at least $1 million to not-for-profit facilities in the first three months of 2007 are down 35 pe...
EDEN PRAIRIE, MN – Three health plans have completed beta testing of Ingenix’s real-time medical underwriting solution. The application, now generally available, is designed...
SAN JOSE, CA – More than half of the California physicians involved in a year-old pay-for-performance consortium have reported using new healthcare information technology to schedule patient vis...
DALLAS – Roughly 70 percent of the nation’s physicians work in a small practice, defined as having 10 or fewer doctors on staff. And many of them don’t have billing software....