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Radiology and medical imaging company AMICAS, Inc., has entered into a merger agreement with rival Emageon Inc. The two companies announced Monday AMICAS plans to acquire Emageon in a $39 million deal.
Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions of Chicago has announced that Edge Health Solutions, Inc., of Richmond, B.C., Canada, has signed a definitive, multi-million-dollar agreement to resell the Allscripts Electronic Health Record as “EdgeEHR Powered by Allscripts” to 1,000 physicians and dentists now using practice management software on the Mac OS X platform.
New York's Medicaid program spends more on long-term health care than any other state, but indicators of quality are "about average or slightly above average," according to a new report issued Friday by the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government.
CUREXO Technology Corporation announced Monday it will launch ROBODOC, its new robotic orthopaedic surgical application at the American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Conference at the Sands Expo Center in Las Vegas, Feb. 25-27.
Significant state Medicaid reform efforts in Louisiana and Rhode Island will likely face challenges in light of the nation's economic downturn, particularly as Medicaid populations grow, according to HealthLeaders-InterStudy, a provider of managed care market intelligence.
Mary Wakefield, director of the Center for Rural Health at the University of North Dakota, will take the reins at the Health Resources and Services Administration.
U.S. employers expect healthcare cost increases to hold steady at 6 percent and plan to adopt consumer-directed health plans in 2010 in an effort to control cost increases, according to a survey by Watson Wyatt, a global consulting firm, and the National Business Group on Health.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 provides financial incentives to physicians who adopt and use Electronic Health Record (EHR) technology. However, physicians who haven't adopted certified EHR systems by 2014 will have their Medicare reimbursements reduced by up to 3 percent beginning in 2015.
Gyrodyne Company of America Inc. has agreed to buy Fairfax Medical Center in Fairfax, Va., for $13.2 million.
With Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.), President Barack Obama's first pick for Secretary of Health and Human Services, no longer an option, the White House has been mum on who might replace him, though many experts and news outlets claim they have inside knowledge.