Diana Manos

WASHINGTON – Healthcare IT adoption may be painful, but the fruits are well worth it, according to Brent James, MD, vice president of medical research and executive director of the Institut...

Providers and health plans are locked in a competitive struggle for the upper hand to gain market share and patients. Their focus is not on delivering value or reducing the cost of care – i...

The Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) announced last Friday the results of a study that reveals a potential shortage of primary care physicians. Accordi...

Most Massachusetts residents support a new law effective July 1 that requires everyone in the state to have health insurance, a recent study shows. The findings sh...

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) should be taken into account along with costs and evidence of value, if it has any hope of lowering healthcare costs, experts say. A Web exclusive int...

A report ranking all 50 states on how well they deliver healthcare estimates that bringing lower-scoring states up to higher-scoring states' standards could save 90,000 lives annually, insure 22 milli...

Doctors and healthcare executives could lose money if they don't take advantage of the year-long National Provider Identifier rule contingency period to get things up and running, according to Martin...

The Department of Health and Human Services announced late Friday the resignation of David Brailer, MD as vice chair of the American Health Information Community. Brailer, form...

WASHINGTON  – The use of healthcare IT can lower costs and also deliver better care, says Brent James, MD, vice president of medical research and executive director of the Institute of H...

State efforts to cover the uninsured could be pivotal in promoting federal action to insure the more than 46 million Americans without coverage, according to experts. A...