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The Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) released their latest annual salary survey that showed practice management salaries in 2010 changed little from 2009.
The iconic Walter Reed Army Medical Center is in the final days of its 102-year run. Slated to close in September by the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) commission in 2005, the center will begin moving next month.
The Institute of Medicine made recommendations last week for eight preventive services for women that health plans should be required to cover without a co-payment or cost sharing under the Affordable Care Act.
The Apps Against Abuse challenge, a national competition to develop an app that provides young adults with tools to prevent sexual assault and dating violence, was launched recently by Vice President Joe Biden, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
The cost growth of medical care for people in employer-sponsored health plans slowed to an annualized rate of 3.8 percent in the first three months of the year, compared to cost growth of 6.3 percent in the first quarter of 2010, according to the recently released Thomson Reuters Healthcare Spending Index for Private Insurance.
A new study in the August issue of Health Affairs found that increased public health investments at the local level can produce measurable health improvements.
athenahealth, an EMR and practice management provider, announced on Thursday that it has signed a deal to acquire Birmingham, Ala.-based Proxsys, developer of cloud-based care coordination between hospitals and physicians, in an effort to bolster growth of its coordinated care services.
The latest plan to surface in the Congressional debate to raise the debt ceiling is the proposal from the recently resuscitated "Gang of Six" senators that aims to reduce the deficit by $3.7 trillion and includes significant cuts in healthcare programs.
A new academic research consortium has been established to study healthcare and consumer engagement pilot programs in New Jersey.
Earlier this week, the AARP released a report that found the unpaid contributions of family caregivers in the United States in 2009 was approximately $450 billion.