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Eight Iowa hospitals would be given better treatment by the Medicare program and be put in a stronger position to provide healthcare services under legislation introduced Tuesday by Sen. Charles Grass...

With a depressed economy and already strained state budgets, a House panel on Tuesday considered extending emergency federal assistance to state Medicaid programs.The House Energy and Commerc...

Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt said Monday his department will do all it can to promote the use of electronic prescribing as a way to launch widespread use of healthcare IT....

Executive search firms form strategic allianceTwo of the nation’s leading healthcare executive search firms have formed a strategic alliance. CES Partners Ltd. and Hersher Associates...

HONOLULU – Both members of the Hawaii Medical Service Association (HMSA), part of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, and non-members will be able to access online care services through Amer...

Faced with sagging stock prices and running out of assets to sell off, MedAvant Healthcare Solutions has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.The Atlanta-based provider of healthcare te...

PROVIDERS are facing greater pressure to streamline their operations, according to Paul Pitcher, director of financial systems at KLAS. There is an ever-increasing focus on such areas as denials ma...

CHARLESTON, SC – A well-known provider of IT solutions for the healthcare benefits market is betting that a message can be delivered much more effectively with pictures, rather than text....

The push to make healthcare more consumer-friendly has reached into yet another staple of everyday life: The cell phone.The development of Apple’s new iPhone, whose 3G version was laun...

Officials at Philips Electronics North America, a unit of Royal Philips Electronics, have announced that the company will be moving its headquarters to Andover, Mass., where it expects to boost the st...