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WASHINGTON – A report issued last month by the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services is calling on the agency to require that physician-owned special...

DUBLIN, OH – Many hospitals struggle to implement information technology – to gain clinician buy-in, retrofit infrastructure and thoroughly retrain staff.Not a problem at Dublin Methodist...

STANFORD, CA  – A massive rebuilding project at Stanford Medical Center campus, expected to take at least a dozen years and cost $1 billion to $2 billion, is taking its initial steps toward...

WASHINGTON – Two national associations are raising concerns about the second phase of a competitive bidding program to be implemented by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services....

SACRAMENTO, CA – California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has outlined a bleak prognosis for the budget of the nation’s most populous state, and healthcare spending is one of the areas feelin...

Accuro Healthcare Solutions Inc. has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission to sell an initial public offering of stock. The company hopes to raise...

Health centers can meet standards, study says Community health centers can adopt national performance standards and improve their quality of care. Results of a recent study concluded th...

LONDON – After years of predicting that healthcare organizations would begin buying electronic health records, that time has apparently come. Spending on complex clinical information...

With healthcare a top domestic issue in the 2008 presidential election, a new study shows that voters are  not likely to cross party lines when it comes to reform....

Contributed by Michael Mytych RECENT PUBLISHED RESEARCH on the state of regional health information organization initiatives indicates a lack of progress on their deployment and sustainability....