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The Medical Banking Project is taking on its first test case, aiming to begin to show how the nation's banks can play a role in solving some of the most vexing issues in healthcare data exchanges....
We are on a first-name basis with someone in our community named Tina.Let's call her poor Tina. She works in an oral surgeon's office in our community. She handles insurance, contentious clai...
A Colorado man whose name, social security number and address were stolen was billed $44,000 by a hospital for a surgical procedure he never had. Two years later, he's still working to clear his name...
Meeting to show progress on NHIN initiative The work of four consortia will be on display at the third NHIN Forum, scheduled for Jan. 25 and 26, sponsored by the Department of H...
As a global purchaser of healthcare for its employees, IBM is taking an active role in healthcare transformation in ways that not only promote reform, but also bring benefits and lower costs to IBM em...
The Catholic Hospital Association isn't a Johnny-come-lately to reporting community benefits. The not-for-profit organization first did work on the concept in the 1980s, publishing it...
WASHINGTON – A recent report by the Urban Institute pokes holes in the belief that many uninsured Americans are in the middle class. The report, funded by the Robert Wo...
Providers saving with credentialing datasource More than 400,000 providers are now using a data collection service to streamline the delivery of credential informat...
Although government and industry officials have been touting the patient safety benefits of electronic health records, physician practices have been slow to adopt the technology – primarily beca...
Physicians are still predominantly paid for productivity rather than quality, a study released Jan. 4 by the Center for Studying Health System Change has shown....