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WASHINGTON – Action to provide healthcare coverage to the nation’s 47 million uninsured residents must be taken immediately, Senators and health experts agreed at a recent Senate Finance C...

NEW ORLEANS – The sharing of data is creating more uses for healthcare information, such as research that drives both lower costs and better care. But before data can be used for esot...

WASHINGTON – Upon delivering its 2007 report to Congress, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) prompted reactions from healthcare industry stakeholders eager to weigh in on how Cong...

CORAL GABLES, FL – When hurricane season comes calling in a month or so, one Florida hospital system expects to have a cost-effective way of coordinating its telecommunications. Ba...

WASHINGTON – With the deadline for implementing national provider identifiers about a month away, calls are growing for the government to soften its stance on switching to the numbers on May 23....

It was an interesting experience to be a healthcare “insider” in a room full of people trying to figure out how they can fit into the healthcare industry. Maybe “inside...

WASHINGTON – A program that provides financial incentives to hospitals that meet quality of care standards has been financially restructured and extended three years by the Centers for Medicare...

Vendor to subsidize free EMRs for docs via ads A vendor of electronic medical records has announced that it will make use of Google’s AdSense program to help sponsor free...

MARIETTA, GA – An initiative of the Medical Banking Project aims to develop a common medical banking platform in the next year to support a growing range of healthcare financial transactions....

LOS ANGELES – A coalition of California health insurers that last year paid $55 million to physician groups for reaching quality care measures in a pay-for-performance program has added care eff...