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A new report from IT solutions firm CDW Healthcare finds that 84 percent of doctors and nurses feel patient care is improved by using healthcare information technologies. The company says HIT can also lower care costs.
Less than a week after its health subcommittee voted to approve a bill repealing the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), the full House Energy and Commerce Committee followed suit. Tuesday's voice vote passed without recorded opposition.
Hackensack University Health Network and the North Shore-LIJ Health System announced Monday an agreement to establish a strategic alliance.
The New Year brought a surge in turnover among the nation's CEOs, with 123 leaving their posts in January, according to a recent report from global outplacement and executive coaching firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc (CGC). Healthcare led the pack with 25 departures.
Everything's bigger in Texas. And not just its longhorn steer, oil derricks and ten-gallon hats. The Lone Star State's cost of care, number of uninsured residents and controversies over reproductive rights are all pretty big too.
Quality professionals working in the healthcare industry made an average of $85,473 in 2011, reports the American Society for Quality in its annual salary survey, but it’s the job trends that it hints at that offer a glimpse of the future.
National political pundits seem to have little to nothing to say about Oklahoma, saving the lion's share of punditry for Ohio. But, 43 delegates are up for grabs in the state.
The Virginia Super Tuesday primary on March 6 won’t be so super after all. Due to a Virginia election rule that each primary candidate must collect 10,000 registered voters’ signatures to participate, all other candidates besides Mitt Romney and Ron Paul are excluded.
Santorum accuses Romney of being "unqualified" to face off against Obama on healthcare.
A new study published in the March issue of Health Affairs shows that doctors who have computer access to patients' test results in an ambulatory care setting are more likely to order imaging and lab tests.