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By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | May 03, 2007
PHILADELPHIA – In expanding its use of a document management system to hold and share patient information, the Albert Einstein Healthcare Network also is seeing a payoff in efficiency and r...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | May 03, 2007
More than half of the California physicians involved in a year-old pay-for-performance consortium have reported using new healthcare information technology to schedule patient visits and appointment r...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:00 am | May 03, 2007
P4P COULD HURT POOR, MINORITIES, STUDY SUGGESTS While pay-for-performance (P4P) and public quality-reporting programs may contribute to the improvement of healthcare qualit...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | May 03, 2007
Today there is hardly a more hotly debated topic than pay-for-performance, or P4P. And yet, despite all the brouhaha, it’s still only a distant speck on the horizon. In line with t...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | May 03, 2007
The federal government should do a better job of overseeing state Medicaid finances, according to a report issued Monday by the General Accountability Office. The 54-page GA...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | May 03, 2007
PRINCETON JUNCTION, NJ – An alliance that’s promoting the benefits of using smart cards in healthcare suggests the cards can contain both clinical and financial information to improve care...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | May 03, 2007
WASHINGTON – A group of Democrats and other supporters are calling for a law that would allow government officials to negotiate for lower Medicare drug prices. According to Sen. D...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | May 03, 2007
WASHINGTON – Standard business rules have been released by a collaborative organization to facilitate the data exchange process between providers and insurers. The rules w...
By Fred Bazzoli | 01:00 am | May 03, 2007
About all you can conclude from all the discussion and attention being paid to healthcare reform is that it is a hot topic, one that politicians believe will resonate with the public....
By Chip Means | 01:00 am | May 03, 2007
WASHINGTON – A recent study indicates that employers can save money on healthcare by paying incentives to their employees who maintain healthy lifestyles. Advocates of consumer-direct...