Friday, September 03, 2010 10:40 AM GMT
The American Medical Association and 90 other medical organizations have sent a letter to the Treasury Department opposing any changes to the tax code that would encourage trial attorneys to file more...
Thursday, September 02, 2010 9:00 PM GMT
Since 2000, American workers’ contributions to health insurance premiums more than doubled, to nearly $4,000 a year from $1,619 ten years earlier. The total premium going to health insurance per...
Thursday, September 02, 2010 9:00 PM GMT
By DAVID C. KIBBE & BRIAN KLEPPER Finally, we have a Final Rule on the Medicare and Medicaid EHR incentive programs. The rules and criteria are simpler and more flexible, and the measures easier to co...
Thursday, September 02, 2010 4:37 PM GMT
At last weekend’s MITSS patient safety workshop, some of us remarked out loud that it would be great to have a simple video teaching newly admitted hospital patients the importance of hand wash...
Thursday, September 02, 2010 1:00 AM GMT
This benchmark annual survey of employers provides a detailed look at trends in employer-sponsored health coverage, including changes in premiums, employee contributions, cost-sharing policies and oth...
Tuesday, August 31, 2010 3:49 PM GMT
By Matthew Holt Next week there’s post-Labor day health care fun in San Diego. The...
Monday, August 30, 2010 4:07 PM GMT
Last week I had the pleasure of doing the opening keynote for the East Hawaii Independent Physician Association annual meeting at the beautiful Mauna Lani Bay Resort on the Big Island of Hawaii. ...
Monday, August 16, 2010 5:33 PM GMT
The importance of aligning incentives cannot be overstated: for health status to improve all of the stakeholders must be focused on producing a healthier person or persons, which is an investment ...
Friday, July 16, 2010 9:32 AM GMT
(via IBMLabs) IBM is enlisting some of the company’s leading scientists and technologists to help medical practitioners and insurance companies provide high-quality, evidence-based care to patients....
Thursday, January 28, 2010 1:36 AM GMT
Guest Article: Top 10 tips for Moving away from paper is an automation journey that is both challenging as well as rewarding and choosing the right data entry technology is certainly one of the bigges...