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Hospitals pilot AT&T's new cloud-based medical imaging
Healthcare heavyweights Baptist Health System in Alabama and Henry Ford Health System in Michigan are piloting a new AT&T cloud-based imaging storage and retrieval system. The hospitals will be
Bundled payments: Lessons learned from the ACE demo
With Medicare set to implement a five-year bundled-payment demonstration project for acute-care and post-acute-care services effective Jan. 1, 2012, it's no wonder that a panel discussion by three
Baptist Health System CIO Rich Shirey: EHR adoption has been slow
Baptist Health System, which owns and manages four hospitals and 38 clinics in Alabama, has begun deploying electronic health record (EHR) technology as part of a larger clinic integration strategy.
Public interest rising in bundled payments, but uncertainties remain
When a term appears in USA Today, you can be pretty sure it has gone mainstream--and this week, the term "bundled payments' is featured in a piece in the national daily, suggesting that if nothing
CMS plans demo of bundled hospital-physician payments
CMS has announced a list of providers who will be participating in a new hospital-based demo project testing the use of a bundled payment for hospitals and physician services. (Bundling payments is a
