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WASHINGTON – A bipartisan bill introduced shortly before the start of National Nurses Week in May would protect nurses from working mandatory overtime hours, one of the the more controversial me...
TEMPLE, TX – The effects of the nursing shortage on outpatient centers are similar to those on hospitals, but clinics are at a disadvantage as they compete for the same nursing supply with hospi...
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...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – Cigna HealthCare’s April announcement that the health plan would deploy Intuit’s online health tool, Quicken Health, to its members in 2008 marks an early victory...
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...
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...
InstaMed receives investment from U.S. Bank Philadelphia-based InstaMed has received an equity investment from the Minneapolis-based U.S. Bank as part of its third round of funding....
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....
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...
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...