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Credit card options made available for physicians An Irvine, Calif.-based information vendor has updated its database of more than 600,000 physician offices to include information...

The concept of a regional health information organization is one that’s difficult to oppose. What healthcare organization wouldn’t want to have a data-sharing organization in place th...

WASHINGTON – A study released Jan. 4 by the Center for Studying Health System Change shows that physicians are still predominantly paid for productivity rather than quality. The s...

OREM, UT – In a recent survey conducted by the Healthcare Financial Management Association, the top three capital investments now being undertaken by hospitals are information technology-related...

NEW YORK – A spate of lawsuits questions the findings of a New York state commission that recommends the closing of nine hospitals and changes affecting 48 other facilities....

IRVINE, CA – SK&A Information Services has just made released its “Physician Office Credit Card Acceptance Data” file, which includes data on more than 600,000 office-based physician...

STAMFORD, CT – As the deadline to start using national provider identifiers approaches, essential information for implementing the identifiers still hasn’t been released by the government....

Emily Bowen, Contributing Writer PLANTATION, FL – With hospitals receiving set payments for providing care, getting patients into the most appropriate care as soon as possible i...

Efforts to provide health coverage for uninsured children eligible for Medicaid are being complicated by a proof of citizenship provision in the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, according to an annual s...

Report: Hospitals to see extra $300M in revenues American hospitals are expected to find an additional $300 million in net patient revenues in 2007, as more than 1,000 additional...