By Travis Akin -Illinois Lawsuit Abuse Watch http://www.stclairrecord.com To say that Illinois’ legal climate has improved in recent years is much like saying the accounting practices at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should be the standard for the mortgage industry. For the second year in a row, Illinois ranks 46th out of 50 states for […]

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http://www.marketwatch.com PEARL RIVER, NY, Sep 30, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) — J. M. Woodworth RRG, Inc. (JMW), the Risk Retention Group launched two years ago to provide medical malpractice insurance to physicians and surgeons in New York State, now has capital and surplus of more than $5 million, Sanford Elsass, President/CEO-Underwriting Manager, announced. “With […]

Zack Phillips http://www.businessinsurance.com One of out six liability claims against health care entities is associated with infections, injuries and other conditions acquired at the hospital, according to a new report. The 2008 Hospital Professional Liability and Physician Liability Benchmark Analysis, released Monday, found that hospital-acquired infections, hospital-acquired injuries, objects left in the body after surgery […]

San Antonio Business Journal http://www.bizjournals.com Central Physician Solutions Inc. is entering San Antonio’s medical billing market. The company opened a new office at 1380 Pantheon Gardens in order to specifically help area podiatrists with claims processing, medical billing and practice management. The niche market of podiatry is often overlooked by many medical billing providers, company […]

http://www.marketwatch.com RALEIGH, N.C., Sep 30, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — DocSite, the leader in patient registries and point-of-care decision support services to the healthcare market, today announced the Texas Medical Association (TMA) is offering DocSite PQRI(TM) as a free membership benefit to physicians participating in Medicare’s Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI.) The TMA is the first […]

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By Kevin Pho http://blogs.usatoday.com Despite the fact that we can complete our taxes and perform complex financial transactions digitally over the Internet, medical records have faced an impasse preventing a transition to the digital age. Patient charts are still paper-based in most doctors’ offices across the country. President Bush’s goal was for every American to […]