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Employers and the National Labor Relations Board may have thought that a new posting rule would go into effect at the end of April, but an injunction issued Tuesday has put the implementation of the new rule on ice.

Providing access to "big data" is a giant step to curing many healthcare ills and taking control of he healthcare costs, according to a new report released today by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, a p

According to a report released Wednesday by the Department of Health and Human Services, patients with Medicare are starting to save money on durable medical equipment (DME) through the Medicare competitive bidding program.

In a step towards enhancing the patient experience while simultaneously improving collection rates, Midland Memorial Hospital recently began offering CarePayment, an innovative patient loyalty and payment program, to help its patients cover out-of-pocket medical expenses by letting them pay back bills over a period of time.

Workforce management firm Kronos announced Monday its acquisition of UK-based SMART Computer Holdings and its Spanish affiliate SMART Human Logistics.

Health insurance companies and hospitals are starting to join a host of other entities, including foreign governments, private companies and financial institutions in adopting a business framework known as COBIT, according to Ken Vander Wal, president of ISACA, a worldwide association for IT professionals.

While President Barack Obama and the all-but-official Republican contender Mitt Romney gear up to debate how each would fashion future healthcare, the battle over a critical underpinning of the law is being fought not in the nation's capital, but in the states.

Led by the Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS), six healthcare organizations today announced the start of a major initiative to improve the medical liability system in the state.

Eight children's hospitals across Ohio are finding that collaboration has improved overall care quality, and they are now spreading their findings to 25 other children's hospitals nationwide this year.

With Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney frequently reasserting his plans to sign an Executive Order to grant all 50 states waivers that essentially serve as get-out-of-health-insurance-exchange-free cards, if he's elected, the future of HIX appears troubled.