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Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions is teaming up with a broad-based coalition of Connecticut healthcare providers and employers to launch a statewide health information exchange.

Medicare could save up to $18 billion over the next decade by implementing a radiology benefit management program, according to MedSolutions, which provides cost management of medical services for healthcare payers.

WellNet Healthcare is targeting the Web 2.0 movement with the release of Point to Point Healthcare, described as a "Facebook-like social networking platform" for healthcare consumers.

About 45,000 office-based physicians may be eligible for up to $63,750 in ARRA funding over six years to improve and maintain their health information technology systems because of their participation in Medicaid, according to a n

The Medicare trust fund will be exhausted by 2017, two years earlier than originally projected, according to the annual report by Medicare Trustees.

Between 2003 and 2008, Medicaid physician fees rose 15.1 percent, closing a portion of the gap with Medicare physician payment rates, according to a study by researchers from the Urban Institute.

Medicare programs designed to boost the care of chronically ill patients while reducing hospital admissions and saving costs have largely failed, a new government-contracted study concludes.