SRS, an electronic health record technology provider, announced that Advanced Orthopedic Center in Port Charlotte, Fla., has selected SRS as its EHR solution provider.  

Out of the physician workforce, the portion of independent physicians has dropped from 57 percent in 2000 to a projected 36 percent in 2013, according to a report from American Medical News.

CMS has released a final rule that allows for the use of standardized extracts of Medicare claims data for qualified entities to measure healthcare providers' and suppliers' performance.

Editor's note: This article first appeared in the RACMonitor.

Many physicians and other healthcare practitioners need to go "in-network" with managed care organizations because these network agreements drive patients into their office. These practitioners typically enter into managed care participation provider agreements with the health insurers for the privilege of becoming an "in-network" provider. The benefits of being in-network include the following:

Managing meaningful use quality measure reporting is getting simplified for physicians and healthcare providers, as the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT continues to roll out its popHealth software, according to the ONC's popHealth website.

Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush in Chicago has been named the preferred medical provider of Cirque du Soleil, OVO, according to a practice news release.