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ELMWOOD PARK, NJ – Emdeon Corp. will soon be rolling out an initiative to help connect payers and providers with an electronic payment and remittance service. Emdeon is planning...

RIDGEFIELD PARK, NJ – Long known for its background in imaging and radiology solutions, Agfa HealthCare is entering the American EMR market with the launch of its ORBIS platform at Sampson Regio...

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL – Maccabi Healthcare Services, a leading Israeli HMO, has announced that it has been selected to help build a new national healthcare information technology system for Bulgaria,...

OREM, UT – With tight operating margins, shrinking reimbursement rates and competition from other facilities, hospitals and large physician groups must constantly improve their ope...

WASHINGTON – The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is expected to publish a Notice of Proposed Rule Making in April as it moves toward a more comprehensive implementation of a severity-...

Nursing home industry faces “perfect storm” California’s nursing home industry is facing a “perfect storm” of problems associated with finances, qual...

WILMINGTON, DE – Last July, the research firm HealthCore released a study showing that use of a patient clinical summary (PCS) electronic health record in an emergency department results in sign...

CMS finalizes details of physician p4p program The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has announced the details of its 2007 Physician Quality Reporting Initiative. The volun...

NEW YORK – When a physician meets with a patient, he/she expects to have all the latest information on hand, from the patient’s own personal health record to the latest information on...

Navicure joins group for electronic data interchange Navicure, an Atlanta-based provider of Web-based revenue cycle management solutions, has announced that it has joined the Workgr...