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On Wednesday the acting U.S. Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank announced the four recipients of the 2012 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, which includes one healthcare network.
Like all major mature markets, the pharmaceutical industry is facing big changes that are playing havoc with productivity and profits. A new analysis released Thursday aims to help pharma usher in a new era of prosperity.
The Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services has selected eight managed care companies to coordinate health care for about 136,000 Medicaid-Medicare eligible patients, as part of the federal government's dual eligible demonstration with the states.
The nonprofit think tank Catalyst for Payment Reform has found links between provider market concentration and increasing healthcare costs, and in a new report outlines a number of recommendations for finding value-based payment delivery models.
Two former eHealth executives have launched a free consumer information website called HealthPocket.com, aimed at bringing more transparency to insurance markets.
With the intention of forming a collaborative network of 20 non-competing, not-for-profit health systems in the Southeast, WellStar Health System announced yesterday that it had acquired the trade name, trademark and other assets of the bankrupt Center for Health Transformation (CHT), a for-profit think-tank founded by Newt Gingrich.
With the intention of forming a collaborative network of 20 non-competing, not-for-profit health systems in the Southeast, WellStar Health System announced yesterday that it had acquired the trade name, trademark and other assets of the bankrupt Center for Health Transformation (CHT), a for-profit think-tank founded by Newt Gingrich.
There are significant benefits to creating a cross-functional workforce governance model that both promotes trusted employee relationships and enables a collaborative approach, said Kathye Habig Nippert, vice president of workforce management at Catholic Health Partners in Cincinnati.
The number of mergers and acquisitions in the medical device sector has been steady over the past three and a half years, according to research and publishing firm Irving Levin Associates' new report The Medical Device Acquisition Report, Second Edition, 2012.
As part of its semi-annual policy-making meeting in Hawaii this week, the American Medical Association's House of Delegates adopted a set of principles for physician employment.