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By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | February 15, 2008
Merge Technologies, a medical imaging software and services company that has struggled with financial and regulatory issues for more than a year, has announced cuts and other moves to stem financial l...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | February 13, 2008
The HLTH Corporation has sold its minority interest in Emdeon Business Services to the company that owns the majority stake in the business. HLTH also said efforts to acquire the port...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | February 12, 2008
A new service is looking to assess the value of genetic tests to determine if they work as advertised and are worth the cost for treating patients. Hayes Inc., a Philadelphia-based co...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | February 11, 2008
Initiatives proposed at the state level for healthcare reform are likely to be key tests for new approaches that eventually could be implemented at the federal level....
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | February 11, 2008
A recent survey shows that gastroenterologists are well on their way to reporting quality data to the federal government, and they use or plan to use software to do it....
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | February 08, 2008
Selling tactics aimed at getting senior citizens to buy Medicare private plans came under attack yesterday in a congressional hearing investigating how sales personnel were handling their responsibili...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | February 08, 2008
Technology and medical advances are helping improve the effectiveness of care, but they have also added significantly to the price tag. That inexorable rise in cost could be stemme...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | February 06, 2008
A proposed budget increase for the Food and Drug Administration isn't big enough, critics say. The budget proposed by President Bush for fiscal year 2009 would increase the FDA's budget by $13...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | February 06, 2008
According to the American Medical Association, medical liability reforms that put limits on non-economic damages help lower malpractice insurance premiums and increase the number of doctors....
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | February 04, 2008
Despite tightening credit markets, at least one regional brokerage and investment banking firm sees continued activity in healthcare transactions in 2008....