Practice Management

Aurora, Ill.-based Rush-Copley Medical Center selected Merge Healthcare, a provider of clinical systems and healthcare innovations, to provide the hospital with Merge PACS, iConnect Access and IConnect Enterprise Archive.

Healthcare mirrors every other industry in that it's a business enterprise. Acknowledging this fact is the first step towards creating true value-based care, according to Richard Kube, MD, of Prairie Spine & Pain Institute and Prairie SurgiCare in Peoria, Ill.

Northern Arizona Healthcare expanded its Care Beyond Walls and Wires telehealth program, according to Healthcare IT News.

Here are the eight specialties with the highest number of active physicians in the United States, according to the 2014 Physician Specialty Data Book.

A new study published in AJMC examines patient-reported outcomes for orthopedic care with a web-based quality-of-life questionnaire.

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences is sharing patients' reviews of their physicians, according to The Washington Times.

Representatives from major health and medical organizations gathered to devise ways to treat obesity at a second annual summit in Chicago.

The United States will grant nearly $700 million to health departments, hospital groups, physician associations and others to improve patient care, according to The Wall Street Journal.

HealthEquity, based in Salt Lake City, designed an online tool that allows consumers to save money on healthcare.

Aurora Healthcare is testing an online reservation system in some of its urgent care clinics in Wisconsin, according to Fox6Now.com.