Economics

This channel highlights factors that impact hospital and healthcare economics and revenue. This includes news on healthcare policies, reimbursement, marketing, business plans, mergers and acquisitions, supply chain, salaries, staffing, and the implementation of a cost-effective environment for patients and providers.

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athenahealth books 42% revenue increase for Q2

Internet-based physican-business service provider athenahealth has booked an increase in its unaudited 2009 second quarter fiscal results, which ended June 30.

CodeRyte, Coding Strategies partner for coding education

Coding Strategies, a auditing, education and reference consulting firm, and CodeRyte, a provider of computer-assisted coding, have announced plans to pool their collective resources to offer educational opportunities and coding expertise for the healthcare industry.

ACVP: Dont fear the RAC

Orlando, Fla.Cardiovascular Business News sat down with Patricia Dear, president of EduTrax, an online coding, compliance and billing resource for healthcare providers, to discuss Medicares recovery audit contractors (RACs), who make a percentage of overpayment monies they recover for the government. Dear was a speaker at the annual meeting of the Alliance for Cardiovascular Professionals (ACVP) in March.

CT scans change treatment plans in ER patients with suspected appendicitis

CT scans change the initial treatment plans of emergency physicians inmore than one-quarter of patients with suspected appendicitis,according to a study published in the October issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.

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These health systems have the biggest digital health portfolios

U.S. health systems are increasingly leveraging digital health to conduct their operations, but how health systems are using digital health in their strategies can vary widely.

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Toylike robot pleases counseling clients where humanoid counterpart struggles to connect

When human counselors are unavailable to provide work-based wellness coaching, robots can substitute—as long as the workers are comfortable with emerging technologies and the machines aren’t overly humanlike.

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Medsender, Patagonia Health team up to aid public health efforts against COVID-19

A vendor that supplies EHR software to public health agencies is partnering with a health-tech startup in the cloud-communications space to equip state and local governments for managing their response to the COVID-19 crisis.

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