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Your choice of EHRs is slowly narrowing down as the number of vendors shrinks. That makes shopping easier.

The author built up her practice and became a local celebrity by writing a newspaper column.

The per-capita supply of primary care physicians increased slightly from 1995 to 2005, according to a new report from the US Government Accountability Office.

Patients are generally poorly served by the drug-price-comparison websites that promise to help them, according to a study released by the Center for Studying Health System Change.

You've got some extra cash each month that you can't decide how to invest. Should you put it in the stock market, or use it to pay down your mortgage?

Physicians in NJ and NY are banding together to appeal to Aetna officials, who have decided to stop reimbursing for the use of the intravenous anesthetic propofol in routine colonoscopies.

Everybody wants to know if their EHR vendor will be around five years from now. Well, the finances of publicly traded vendors are an open book. In the last quarter of 2007, most of them rolled in dough, but one lost money.

Hospitals have a federal green light to help you pay for an EHR, but one little restriction could limit the number of programs eligible for a discount.

A predicted rise in smartphone ownership by physicians helps explains why medical software for handhelds is increasingly Web-based.

You're under growing pressure to e-prescribe, but how do you get started? An interactive website co-sponsored by organized medicine walks you through the steps.

Provider organizations looking to buy an ambulatory electronic health record give the most consideration to products from eClinicalWorks, NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, and Allscripts, according to IT research firm KLAS Enterprises.

The IRS warns of a rash of e-mail and telephone scams whose aim is to latch onto a taxpayer's personal and financial data.

In a slumping housing market, some people who've been unable to sell their home have made the bold move of trading it for someone else's.

Only 22 percent of respondents to a new survey of affluent households thought $1 million is enough to be considered rich.

By lowering their patients' cost of care doctors who participate in the new Bridges to Excellence Medical Home program can earn a potential annual bonus of $125 for each patient covered by a participating employer.

The unscientific "Super Bowl Predictor" says that the market rises in years when an "original" NFL team wins the big game and drops in years when a team from the old AFL is victorious.

You may face greater competition for patients if Wal-Mart makes good on its plans to staff another 400 co-branded, in-store medical clinics by 2010.

It's not yet the norm, but one more malpractice carrier is lowering premiums for doctors who use EHRs.

If you've been lax about saving for your golden years, figuring you'd make up ground as your income rises and your debt shrinks, here's some sobering news: More than four in 10 households are "at risk" for not being able to maintain their standard of living in retirement.

You've got some extra cash each month that you can't decide how to invest. Should you put it in the stock market, or use it to pay down your mortgage?

The office that President Bush created to promote interoperable EHRs has received $200 million since 2004, but still hasn't produced a meaningful strategy to attain its goal, according to the General Accountability Office. But a plan is supposedly in the works.

An informal poll of certified public accountants found that more of them may get into the business of retirement planning, by offering 401(k) plans to their clients.

Whether you're new to investing in individual stocks or have been dabbling in the market for years, it's always prudent to do your homework.

Going online with pharmacies can save you time and improve patient care, but liability issues may increase.

While you're right not to count on Social Security to take you through your golden years, neither should you brush it aside.

The region's volatile, but its potential future growth prospects may hold key opportunities for you to earn top dollar.

It's not too late to fully fund your 401(k), Roth, or other retirement accounts for 2007. If you're a procrastinator, a recent T. Rowe Price analysis drives home the importance of making those deferrals as early in your career as possible.

With fuel prices soaring and demand for energy growing in many parts of the world, it didn't take long for scam artists to try to hoodwink people into investing in shaky energy-related investments.

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Mortgage payments, car loans, college tuitions, credit card bills. For nearly seven out of 10 Americans, these and other financial responsibilities undermine efforts to save for retirement, according to a recent poll from Bankrate.com.