AHA, HFMA take aim at expanded tax forms (17 May 2012)
Certain changes to the IRS Form 990 included in the Patient and Protection and Affordable Care Act are not only burdensome, but they do not afford hospitals the protections that an earlier law intended, two provider organizations wrote in a letter...
Genetic testing doesn't increase healthcare use: study (17 May 2012)
Genetic testing does not drive increased use of health services, according to the results of a study published online by the journal Genetics in Medicine.
IT top financial priority at not-for-profit hospitals: survey (17 May 2012)
Capital spending, particularly on information technology, is expected to remain stable or even increase over the next five years at not-for-profit hospitals, according to a Fitch Ratings survey.
Medical boards' actions against docs up 6.8% in 2011 (17 May 2012)
Driven in part by the Florida Board of Medicine, state medical boards' disciplinary actions against physicians increased 6.8% in 2011, according to the Federation of State Medical...
Group asks for staggered start on ICD-10 (17 May 2012)
The MGMA-ACMPE, formerly the Medical Group Management Association, is calling for pilot testing and a staggered start before the federally mandated conversion to the ICD-10 family of diagnostic and procedural codes takes full effect.
On Assignment closes deal for IT staffing company (17 May 2012)
On Assignment, a healthcare staffing company, closed a $600 million deal to acquire Apex Systems, an information technology staffing company.
3M gives feds access to data tool (17 May 2012)
An agreement between 3M Health Information Systems and the federal government will provide access for federal agencies and the public to 3M software that allows for interoperability among data systems.
Baptist of Nashville names Smallwood CMO (17 May 2012)
Baptist Hospital, Nashville, has named Dr. Geoffrey Smallwood as chief medical officer.
AAMC journal names new editor (17 May 2012)
The Association of American Medical Colleges has named emergency physician Dr. David Sklar as the next editor-in-chief of the journal Academic Medicine.
Agilent in $2.2 billion deal for cancer diagnostic company (17 May 2012)
Agilent Technologies, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based manufacturer of scientific instruments and measurement tools as well as software, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Dako, a Danish cancer diagnostic company, for $2.2 billion.
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