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Nursing home industry faces “perfect storm” California’s nursing home industry is facing a “perfect storm” of problems associated with finances, qual...
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-...
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...
NON-PROFIT HOSPITALS that don’t painstakingly document their charitable activities and other benevolent services are running the risk of getting targeted for a PILOT program, health policy speci...
In the second year of its Survey of Regional Health Information Organization Finance, the Healthcare IT Transition Group plans to look at the challenges of funding RHIOs that are in various stages of...
CHICAGO – The first group of physicians participating in the Illinois E-Rx Collaborative and DrFirst’s e-prescribing initiative has begun writing prescriptions electronically....
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...