Bernie Monegain

The government is poised to announce nearly $1 billion in grants to boost the use of health information technology, a measure the White House contends will help control skyrocketing costs of healthcare.

Investments in community health centers that provide care for about 15 million people who are poor, underserved and uninsured have helped expand the services, according to new research.

Hospital executives taking part in the Premier healthcare alliance's QUEST program say they saved $577 million last year by making small changes.

The pharmacy department at Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, has rolled out a medication tracking system that, officials said, has reduced waste by 32 percent.

CDPHP, a not-for-profit health insurer in New York, has deployed new software to help reduce costs and boost quality.

The government has launched two grant programs totaling $38 million for the training and development of a skilled workforce to support adoption and use of healthcare information technology.

GE Healthcare and GE Capital are expanding their healthcare IT interest-free loan program to include new purchases of GE Healthcare's Centricity Business suite.

Maintaining the status quo won't be good enough for vendors in the fiercely competitive medical transcription services market, according to KLAS.

The QuadraMed Corp., a Reston, Va.-based provider of revenue cycle management technology and services, has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Francisco Partners, a technology-focused private equity firm.

Leapfrog added a new efficiency standard to its quality criteria and introduced a category for best rural hospitals on its annual list of the top 45 hospitals in the nation.