Mike Miliard
Health insurer WellPoint announced this week that it will work with the Cedars-Sinai Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute to help provide clinical expertise as it develops healthcare capabilities for IBM's Watson.
More than half of health system and insurance executives recently surveyed by KPMG, law firm Epstein Becker Green and The JHD Group indicated they are still undecided about whether their organizations will participate in the Medicare ACO program.
PwC's Health Research Institute has predicted the top 10 issues facing healthcare in 2012. Insurance exchanges, consumer trepidation, drug shortages and the need for organizations to prove value promise to be among the hallmarks of a 'seminal' year.
Chronically and seriously ill adults who received care from a medical home were less likely to report medical errors, test duplication and other care coordination failures, according to a new international survey from the Commonwealth Fund.
HMS Holdings Corp. announced Monday that it will acquire HealthDataInsights, the Medicare recovery audit contractor for Region D, for approximately $400 million.
Grants totaling $4.5 million have been awarded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to support three research centers that focus on clinical preventive services.
A new report from PwC's Health Research Institute, indicates most health organizations aren't properly prepared to protect patient privacy and secure personal health information.
To help U.S. hospitals manage risk and take full advantage of the new healthcare payment models, Thomson Reuters has introduced a suite of payment reform tools.
athenahealth, an EMR and practice management provider, announced on Thursday that it has signed a deal to acquire Birmingham, Ala.-based Proxsys, developer of cloud-based care coordination between hospitals and physicians, in an effort to bolster growth of its coordinated care services.
A report from the PricewaterhouseCoopers US Health Research Institute finds that policies offered by state health insurance exchanges could be worth nearly $60 billion by 2014 - and grow to nearly $200 billion by 2019.