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Consolidation among healthcare providers in the Chicago area appears to be continuing with the announcement last week that Condell Medical Center, a community hospital in Libertyville, Ill., will be t...

Concuity, a healthcare division of Trintech and Vernon Hills, Mich.-based provider of contract management and revenue recovery solutions and services, has announced that Edward Hospital of Nape...

Hospitals implementing radio frequency identification tracking technology must keep a tactical return on investment up front, according to Awarepoint CEO Jason Howe. At a pa...

Some 70 percent of hospitals expect their volume of contracted services to grow or remain unchanged over the next two years, according to a new study released by VHA Inc., a national health alliance....

UnitedHealth Group and PacifiCare have announced more than $6 million in grants to benefit healthcare consumers and improve the delivery of health care services in the Golden State. T...

Empire Blue BlueCross BlueShield is teaming up with Consumer Health Services to operate retail healthcare clinics, with the goal of providing health plan members with better access to non-emergency ca...

Margins are slim for community pharmacies, according to a report released this week by the Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services. Organ...

Citing a "solid track record in growth" over the past four years, a San Francisco-based private equity firm prepares to make its next purchase - AdvancedMD. Francisco Partners, which...

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) voted last week for a 1.1 percent increase in Medicare payments for doctors in 2009. The vote comes as a precursor...

Elsevier, an Amsterdam, Netherlands-based publisher of medical information products and services, has added to its predictive analytics suite of services with the acquisition of MEDai, Inc., an Orland...