Molly Merrill

A national data collection center has been launched to monitor business efficiency in healthcare by tracking electronic adoption and resulting cost savings.

Thanks to almost $100 million in settlement proceeds from health insurers, a new reimbursement database for out-of-network healthcare charges is being developed in New York.

A $54 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will allow Kaiser Permanente to improve health research on public and clinical health areas, such as genotyping, colon cancer and cardiovascular disease.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released $6.3 million in order to boost efforts by State Health Insurance Assistance Programs (SHIPs).

The economy is forcing hospitals to consider delaying or scaling back their information technology projects, according to a survey of America’s "most wired" hospitals and health systems.

First Lady Michelle Obama announced the release of $851 million in grants to Community Health Centers on Monday.

Healthcare costs for the nation's employers are expected to grow by another nine percent next year, according to a report by PricewaterhouseCoopers' Health Research Institute.

Physicians fresh out of residency reported a boost in median job salaries from last year in emergency medicine, infectious disease and hematology/ oncology, according to a survey by the Medical Group Management Association.

Hospitals facing budget shortfalls are weary of "going green" because they think it will cost them more money - but this is a myth.

Hospitals are cutting staff, resources and education for infection prevention at a time when healthcare-associated infections are on the rise, says a new report.