August 27, 2013 Mark Hagland
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Many in healthcare have been wondering what is going on at Merge Healthcare these days: the company has seen two high-profile departures in the space of less than one month. Chief product officer Steven Tolle spoke exclusively with HCI’s Mark Hagland on Aug. 27. Regarding all the changes taking place there.
August 27, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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Thanks to information technology (IT) and other investments, hospitals are incurring higher expenses, and for the first time in three years showing weakening financial performance, a recent report from Moody’s Investors Service found.
August 27, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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Health IT vendors Epic and Cerner have combined to capture more than 75 percent of new large-hospital electronic health record (EHR) contracts, while the other vendors struggled to keep pace, according to the latest report from the Orem, Utah-based research and consulting firm, KLAS Research.
August 27, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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The Charlotte, N.C.-based Premier Healthcare Alliance, a collection of 2,900 U.S. community hospitals and 100,000 alternate sites of care which has historically provided group purchasing services, has filed for an initial public offering (IPO), the company announced in a public statement.
August 26, 2013 Mark Hagland
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The Chicago-based Merge Healthcare, a leading vendor in the imaging informatics space, announced that Michael W. Ferro, Jr. had resigned as chairman of the board and as a director, effectively immediately. The move came just two weeks after CEO Jeffery Surges resigned on Aug. 9.
August 26, 2013 Tim Tolan
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Back-channel references are the references you’ve never heard about and who were left off the list given to you by the search firm or by your internal recruiter. There is real value in being able to validate someone’s potential by a simple phone call; yet while this important tool is great, most hiring managers don’t want to invest the time to dig a bit more. You should find the time!
August 22, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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UnitedHealthcare (UHC), the Minnetonka, Minn.-based health insurer, has improved its claims management website with the addition of an electronic bill-payment service that enables consumers to pay their medical bills, and manage their healthcare claims and related expenses all from one location
August 22, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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Kaiser Permanente, the nationwide integrated healthcare provider and payer based out of Oakland, has officially opened a new healthcare information technology center in Greenwood Village, Colo.
August 21, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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The industry is a little over a year away from the transition to ICD-10. While that may seem like a long time, Cindy Hegner, certified coder and approved ICD-10 trainer, says that patient care organizations cannot be too prepared. Hegner also offers her thoughts on the industry's readiness, and challenges medical practices will face in the upcoming months.
August 20, 2013 David Raths
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Intermountain Healthcare has opened a Healthcare Transformation Lab in Salt Lake City, where it is partnering with several information technology companies, including Xi3, Intel and Dell. Initiatives under way include a “Patient Room of the Future,” featuring advanced patient-monitoring technologies.
August 19, 2013 John DeGaspari
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Physicians across all organization types can expect to see median salary increases of 2.4 percent for 2014, on par with salary increases last year, according to results from Hay Group’s 2013 Physician Compensation Survey released today. Physicians in group-based practices can expect to see larger pay increases (3.7 percent) than those in hospital-based settings (2.2 percent).
August 15, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is using the ECRI Institute, a non-profit applied scientific research organization, to maintain and enhance publicly accessible, searchable databases of summaries of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and healthcare quality measures.
