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Kaiser Permanente and Microsoft Corp. are launching a pilot project to bring Microsoft's HealthVault platform together with Kaiser Permanente's personal health records for use by Kaiser employees and...

Medical tourism and medical student debt burden and its impact on the physician shortage, are two of the hot topics to be discussed at a five-day meeting of the American Medical Association in Chicago...

Public health departments, hospitals and other health care organizations will receive $1.1 billion in aid from the Department of Health and Human Services to strengthen their ability to respond to pub...

In an effort to detect potential fraud and waste in the Medicaid program, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will use data analysis services provided by Thomson Reuters.Thom...

Chamberlin, Edmonds and Associates, a company that provides specialized eligibility determination services to hospitals, has been acquired The Atlanta-based company was acquired by three e...

Walgreens has agreed to pay more than  $35 million to settle Medicare reimbursement disputes that resulted from the company allegedly switching three of its drugs from generic drugs to name brand...

Wayne State University's Physician Group will adopt a centrally-hosted practice management and billing service for its network of more than 400 providers.The medical group has signed a contra...

SCIOinspire, a Hartford, Conn.-based provider of cost-containment services for healthcare payers, is boosting its portfolio with the acquisition of Solucia, Inc. - its second deal in little more than...

Merge Healthcare has announced a corporate reorganization, the latest and most drastic in a string of maneuvers designed to keep the troubled provider of medical imaging and information management sof...

Amid growing concern about the ethics of physicians accepting gifts from pharmaceutical manufacturers, a recent survey gave U.S. medical schools a poor grade on the topic.Only 21 of 150 medic...