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By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 am | September 19, 2008
Reformed payment policies that honor the "full scope" of a family physician's work are essential to changing the U.S. healthcare system for the better, according to a leader in the movement...
By Bernie Monegain | 12:00 am | September 19, 2008
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...
By Diana Manos | 12:00 am | September 19, 2008
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...
By Diana Manos | 12:00 am | September 18, 2008
Reps. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.), Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.) and Lee Terry (R-Neb) have introduced a bipartisan bill designed to strengthen the U.S. public health system and improve its infrastructure at al...
By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 am | September 18, 2008
The U.S. healthcare system is "financially unsustainable" and must be reformed, said the incoming president of the American Academy of Family Physicians in a speech that set an energetic ton...
By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | September 18, 2008
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has awarded the Education Development Center, Inc. of Newton, Mass. for the National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence...
By Bernie Monegain | 12:00 am | September 18, 2008
Financial analysts who track healthcare technology companies Misys and Allscripts say Misys should have no problem obtaining the $305 million it needs to complete the planned merger with Allscripts....
By Jeff Marion | 12:00 am | September 18, 2008
The MetLife Foundation has awarded a $100,000 grant to Alzheimer's Disease International (ADI) and 11 of its member associations around the world. The money will be used for educational training and t...
By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | September 17, 2008
"America's Agenda: Health Care for Kids," a non-partisan organization of labor and business leaders, has launched a TV and mail campaign aimed at persuading a divided Congress to approve leg...
By Richard Pizzi | 12:00 am | September 17, 2008
Michigan's nonprofit community hospitals provided nearly $2.6 billion in direct patient care services and targeted outreach to those who could not afford it in fiscal year 2007, according to a report...