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Pent-up demand for health insurance and curiosity about what the exchanges have to offer proved too much for the federal and many state systems to handle upon opening of the health insurance marketplaces.

With the difficulties that individuals have already faced in trying to access, shop and enroll online in the health insurance exchanges attracting most of the roll-out attention, it’s easy to forget that every new major online venture also opens consumers to the possibility of fraud.

Before you know it, the ICD-10 go-live date of October 2014 will be here, and for those 55 percent of physicians who have yet to begin implementation, it's looking like a rocky road ahead.  

Venture capital investment in healthcare information technology continues to go gangbusters, with a record-setting Q3 seeing more than 150 separate deals that hauled in nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars.

Improving care and lowering costs for beneficiaries eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid is the holy grail of the government and health plans alike.

Medicare Advantage plans are beginning to contribute to the moderating trend of the growth in Medicare per capita spending, which is at overall historic lows as a result of fewer hospital readmissions and shift to generic prescription medications.

UNC Health Care is using IBM big data analytics to help hospital workers reduce costly and preventable readmissions, decrease mortality rates and improve patient care.

The state of Washington finds itself in the middle of a trend that hardly anyone there ever saw coming: a wave of mergers and alliances between Catholic hospital chains and secular, taxpayer-supported community hospitals.

Our weekly look at career moves in the healthcare finance sector. This issue highlights promotions, hires and fires for the week ending October 18, 2013.

A new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine examined factors what factors may or may not affect hospital CEO compensation.