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At last year's meeting of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, held in February in Orlando, Fla., a small group of well-known health information technology leaders from the public and private sectors met to discuss the need to create a resource for physicians who were...
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Launched with a campaign that sought to set the world on fire, the initial pilots using the Prometheus bundled-payment model found themselves struggling to get started as implementation proved to be as torturous as the project's acronym.
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Do financial penalties in healthcare actually change behavior to a degree that leads to positive change? When it comes to readmissions, an answer is emerging: the threat of such penalties can.
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A pharmaceutical industry trend seeking increased profits from medical treatments for rare disorders is colliding with a hospital push for greater discounts on those drugs.
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The new Eagle Butte Health Center in South Dakota is set to open for business this week. The 10-bed, 138,000-square-foot Indian Health Service facility was paid for with $84.5 million from the stimulus law.
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The healthcare information technology market in the U.S. is booming, but it's much the same story elsewhere.
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In 2009, not-for-profit community hospitals say the federal government underpaid them by a collective $8.2 billion.
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Hospital fire fact: If a small blaze broke out next to an MRI machine, would-be firefighters couldn't use a traditional metal extinguisher because powerful magnetism might yank it out of their hands.
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Upfront carrots coupled with far-off sticks are part of several federal health IT booster initiatives, and the CMS' Electronic Prescribing Incentive Program is no exception.
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Opponents call hospital rate-setting a backward approach to cost control, a practice that fell out of favor in the 1980s.
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