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A bipartisan bill introduced in the House this week would bring the concept of nationwide universal health insurance, as recently discussed by leading presidential candidates, closer to reality....

The Center for Community Health Leadership is calling for proposals for its third grant to a local community to pay for electronic health records software and services. The center...

The Department of Health and Human Services proposed a plan Tuesday to improve the quality and safety of healthcare through the confidential reporting of medical errors. According to the proposed rule...

A six-month government investigation has led to charges that Ingenix operates a defective and manipulated database that is used by most major health insurance companies to set reimbursement rates....

The HLTH Corporation has sold its minority interest in Emdeon Business Services to the company that owns the majority stake in the business. HLTH also said efforts to acquire the port...

Fresh off the signing of a contract with Singapore's largest healthcare provider, Eclipsys has hired a healthcare veteran to continue its momentum in the Far East. The Atl...

A new service is looking to assess the value of genetic tests to determine if they work as advertised and are worth the cost for treating patients. Hayes Inc., a Philadelphia-based co...

Under two whistleblower settlement agreements, the Merck Company will pay more than $650 million to the U.S. Department of Justice and 49 individual states. The pharmaceutical manu...

A new BearingPoint study says the implementation of universal healthcare in the United States could increase the use of healthcare savings accounts even beyond original projections. However, they warn...

A recent survey shows that gastroenterologists are well on their way to reporting quality data to the federal government, and they use or plan to use software to do it....