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The senior population isn't just exploding in the United States. It's a global phenomenon that is offering seniors housing developers in the U.S. business opportunities abroad.

An effective workplace safety program is imperative in healthcare settings to ensure the well-being of workers and hold down costs related to worker injury.

Cancer care delivery is a system in crisis, with escalating costs, an increasingly aging population and complex treatments for a difficult disease stretching healthcare resources, according to a new Institute of Medicine report.

Changes to care delivery and payment models need to happen in order to improve a cancer care delivery system that is in crisis, found a new Institute of Medicine report.

With profligate use of CT and MRI scans widely blamed for increased healthcare spending, a new report shows that pairing automated prior authorization with evidence-based guidelines can ensure such tests are only used when necessary, improving patient safety while reducing medical costs by perhaps 40 percent.

The efforts of a number of hospitals across the country to improve the health of their patient populations by promoting healthy foods are a benefit to the hospitals themselves and their communities.

The Affordable Care Act's medical loss ratio regulation appears to be achieving its goals of reducing insurers' administrative costs and tempering profits.

Three healthcare executives shared the success factors that can propel shared savings and accountable care organizations and the pitfalls that can sink them, even as these value-based models are still in their infancy.

U.S. nonprofit hospitals' financial performance in fiscal year 2012 wasn't strong, and the outlook for FY 2013 doesn't appear to be much better.

One of the first Affordable Care Act policies to take effect, the insurance medical loss ratio, has taken a bite out of profits in individual market businesses, but with less dramatic impacts to group health plans.