Only four of the six CON applications filed with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health earlier this month for radiation…
CMS is rolling out the "Medicare Care Management Performance Demonstration," a pilot performance-based physician compensation program for small-to-medium-sized physician practices…
HIMSS and Phoenix Health Systems recently released results of their latest semi-annual HIPAA compliance survey. Though the deadline for compliance…
Paul Levy, CEO of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center here in Boston, recently started blogging at Running a Hospital.…
As reported earlier by HealthBlawg (here and here), October 1 was the application filing date for new CONs (or, as…
The CDC has posted a study collecting vast amounts of data on 2004 emergency department visits in hospitals across the…
Not-for-profit hospitals have been none too quick in rolling out cost-sharing programs for physician office EHR and e-prescribing tools. As…
A GAO report made public yesterday finds that Medicare patient data transmission is insecure. The AP/Washington Post story on the…
The recently revised Massachusetts DON guidelines stated that there is need for eight additional radiation therapy units statewide, and applications…
Smaller units, more personalized care planning, and greater autonomy for elders are three hallmarks of the Green House model of…