News

GLENDALE, AZ – In healthcare, unlike other industries, business process management (BPM) covers two different areas, business processes and clinical workflow. With both, the desired outcome is t...

Congress has introduced a bipartisan proposal to expand and streamline State Children's Health Insurance Programs. Under the Healthy Kids Act of 2007, sponsored by Reps. Rahm Em...

Healthcare consumers using online resources to compare and choose physicians now have the option of basing their decisions on whether a certain doctor has paid a malpractice settlement.  ...

WASHINGTON – Nearly one-third of American health consumers are intolerant of even the slightest inaccuracies in reporting physician performance ratings, a recent study found. Matthew Davi...

SAN FRANCISCO – Practice Fusion, Inc., an electronic healthcare vendor launched last August, recently announced that it will make use of Google’s AdSense program to help sponsor free elect...

ABILENE, TX – A physician-owned specialty hospital closed last month after it became the center of controversy when one of its patients died after experiencing a medical emergency that required...

ACCURO HEALTHCARE AQUIRES WOODMOOR GROUP Accuro Healthcare Solutions, Inc. of Dallas has acquired The Woodmoor Group, inc., a Raleigh, N.C.-based provider of Web-based accounts receiv...

AHA ASKS CMS FOR HOSPITAL INPUT ON MAC SELECTION The American Hospital Association is asking the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to allow hospitals and other providers to par...

WASHINGTON – The nation’s not-for-profit hospitals are likely to face more scrutiny into whether the services they provide merit their tax-exempt status. The Government Accou...

WASHINGTON – Providers and payers making a good-faith effort to implement the national provider identifier will have as much as 12 more months to start using the identifiers on claim forms....