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NCQA approves second vendor for medical home recognition credit

Phytel, which provides cloud-based solutions related to population health management, has made an agreement with the National Committee on Quality Assurance (NCQA) that will help its clients achieve

MGMA: Doctors not ready for 5010, 'contingency plan' needed

The Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) has called for the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) to create a contingency plan for the impending transition to the 5010 electronic

Why IT may not be the cure for what ails healthcare

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. And to government proponents of health IT, technology provides the solution to nearly every problem in the healthcare system. That much, at

UnitedHealth buying 2,300 doctors

The number of insurer-provider business relationships just keeps on growing as UnitedHealth Group announced it's acquiring one of California's largest physicians groups. The deal demonstrates how

Health IT has become an obsession for group practice administrators

Four of the five top issues this year for members of the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) revolve around health IT. And even the fifth issue--rising costs--has some bearing on

MGMA survey: majority of physician groups haven't started down 5010 path

Physician groups are even further behind the 5010 implementation curve than hospitals are. A majority of the respondents to a recent survey by the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) said

Trend: Arizona providers de-installing electronic medical records

Here at FierceHealthcare, we tend to leave the bits and bytes stuff to our sister publication FierceHealthIT. But we thought the following story was important enough that you might want to hear about