Rene Letourneau
Iowa hospitals provide more than 700,000 jobs and pay more than $3.8 billion in salaries and benefits annually, according to a recent study conducted by the Iowa Hospital Association.
Healthcare IT firm Greenphire announced today that it has formed an exclusive strategic partnership with the clinical trials division of Merge Healthcare.
Hospital audits conducted through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program are usually handled by compliance departments and are generally managed by a single full-time employee (FTE), according to a new survey from the Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA).
UMass Memorial Health Care in Worcester, Mass., will reduce its workforce by 700-900 in response to declining patient volumes and reimbursement, officials announced Wednesday.
Chronic illness represents 75 percent of the $2 trillion in annual U.S. healthcare spending and is steadily moving toward crisis proportions, according to a new report from the Institute of Medicine.
For every dollar spent on over-the-counter (OTC) medicines, the U.S. healthcare system saves six to seven dollars, providing $102 billion in value annually, says a new report from the Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA).
Doctors' lack of brand loyalty costs Big Pharma billions of dollars annually because doctors prescribe generics as soon as they become available, says a new survey from marketing solutions firm DoctorDirectory.
Driven by increased revenue pressures and challenges resulting from the transition to a new healthcare delivery model as a result of national healthcare reform, the outlook for the U.S. not-for-profit healthcare sector remains negative for 2012, says Moody's Investors Service in a new report.
New drugs in three multi-billion dollar categories will help pharmaceutical companies offset patent expirations and will ease pressure on credit rating outlooks, says a new report from Moody's Investors Service.
In 2011, a total of $227.4 billion was committed to financing healthcare merger, acquisition and takeover activity, representing an 11 percent increase over the $205.6 billion spent in 2010, according to a new report from Irving Levin Associates, Inc.