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California Blue Shield members will now have access to services at NorthBay Healthcare community hospitals and its network of primary care and specialty physicians thanks to a multi-year agreement eff...

UCSF Medical Center is one step closer to breaking ground for a new hospital complex on the UCSF Mission Bay campus following the unanimous approval by the University of California Board of Regents on...

For the second year in a row, the Cardinal Health Foundation will award more than $1 million in funding to help U.S. hospitals, health systems and community health clinics improve patient safety and h...

Eclipsys Corp. based in Atlanta will acquire Medinotes, a privately-held physician software company based in Des Moines, Iowa. The announcement, made over the weekend at the 6th Annual Busine...

In an effort to reduce the spread of HIV, the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) will award 16 agencies about $6.2 million in state and federal money starting in January 2009.The HIV preve...

International market analysis firm Datamonitor believes that Illinois Sen. Barack Obama's pledge to increase investment in life science research will not only help the pharmaceutical and biotechnology...

Perot Systems of Plano, Texas has been awarded a five-year contract extension with athenahealth, Inc., a Watertown, Mass.-based provider of Web-based business services for physician practices....

Though a relaxation of the so-called Stark law was expected to spur hospitals to help physicians buy electronic medical records, a new study finds hospitals are moving slowly and cautiously on that sc...

The standard Medicare Part B monthly premium will be $96.40 in 2009, the same as the Part B premium for 2008, the Centers for Medicare& Medicaid announced Friday. This is the first year s...

The House Veterans' Affairs Committee is making plans to prevent veteran's healthcare funding from being interrupted due to the usual year's end bipartisan wrangling over the budget. On Thurs...