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The Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) announced a new round of two additional Beacon awards totaling $30.3 million on Wednesday.
Health insurers, on average, are paying physicians seven days faster and denying 12 to 18 percent fewer claims than last year, according to the fifth annual PayerView Rankings athenahealth and Physicians Practice released Wednesday. The findings show the potential of increased automation and transparency to reduce administrative costs and increase the speed of reimbursements.
Medical transcription technology is to blame for the loss of 30 jobs at the largest hospital in Vermont. Officials at Fletcher Allen Health Care, a non-profit, academic medical center in Burlington, Vt., made the announcement on Tuesday.
Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise forms partnership with pathologists to pursue lab device interoperability.
A recent study of health information exchange solution vendors shows enterprise HIEs serving integrated delivery networks, health, or hospital systems will be the fastest-growing market segment of HIE organizations in the coming two years.
Food agency calls the site first step in setting up 'one-stop shopping' for reporting safety risks to multiple agencies.
Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services would simplify process for authorizing practitioners to offer telemedicine services.
The real-time healthcare communications network, which gives providers secure online access to 16 health plans across the state, is growing.
The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC), a nonprofit standards group, is recommending changes in the government's draft rules on health IT certification that EHNAC officials say would make the rules stronger.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed changes to ease the burdens of credentialing and privileging for hospitals that provide telemedicine.