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When physicians integrate with hospitals, costs go up, Rice study says

When physicians integrate with hospitals, the cost of healthcare rises even though there’s no evidence patients get better treatment, according to a new paper by experts at Rice University and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas. As hospitals gain more control over physicians, they may incentivize delivery of more services but not necessarily higher… Read More »

Blessing Health expands use of Allscripts to integrate records

Blessing Health System, a two-hospital delivery system with 307 beds in Quincy, Ill., is expanding its existing relationship with Allscripts as it seeks to create one single integrated clinical and financial patient record. Blessing Health has worked with Allscripts for 15 years and currently uses six of its applications. Now, it will add the vendor’s… Read More »