EHRs
It’s an exciting time in healthcare as artificial intelligence has moved from concept to capability, offering new ways to reduce…
Prexus Health — Prexus Health is a physician-owned healthcare consulting firm that specializes in the development and management of multi-specialty, physician-owned ASCs, small hospitals, imaging centers, physical therapy services and anatomical pathology labs. The company provides a full range of…
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Approximately 1.5 percent of hospitals have comprehensive electronic health record systems in place in all clinical units, according to a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Pinnacle III — Pinnacle III specializes in turnkey operational development, operational management and revitalization for ASCs around the country and offers equity and non-equity models to joint venture and single- and multi-specialty ASCs. The company also assist centers in developing…
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Promotion of health information technology plays a significant role in the stimulus packages under consideration in Congress. H.R. 1, the House of Representative's version of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, provides incentive payments for adoption and "meaningful"…
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The rate of visits to freestanding ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) tripled from 1996-2006, while the rate of visits to hospital-based surgery centers remained flat during that period, according to a new report from the National Center for Health Statistics at…
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Mike O’Keefe, a director in the healthcare real estate group of Navigant Consulting, a practice which provides facility development, program management, real estate advisory, strategic planning, performance improvement, facilities planning and capital advisory services to healthcare providers throughout the United…
More than 3,000 hospitals qualified for the full 2009 payment update for participating in CMS new Hospital Outpatient Quality Data Reporting Program, according to a CMS press release.
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The long-discussed CMS Acute Care Episode (ACE) demonstration project will begin in five hospital systems in four states.
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Commercial payors are increasingly seeking to eliminate payments for imaging services and are justifying their hiring of outside firms to scrutinize the medical necessity of such exams by saying this area is prone to wasteful spending, according to a report…
In addition to a payment update and four new quality measures, CMS is changing how it pays for imaging services when two or more imaging procedures from an imaging family are provided in one session to encourage greater imaging efficiency.…