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The draft proposals for measures for meaningful use Stage 2 are taking shape. The panel has incorporated more emphasis on making the patient an active participant in healthcare and more exchange of health information as central to a number of the objectives.

Ventas has completed its $3.1 billion acquisition of 118 private-pay senior housing communities of the privately-owned Atria Senior Living Group. Ventas had announced the acquisition in October 2010.

Comparative effectiveness research aimed at determining the efficacy of medical treatments could deprive the country of $4 trillion in economic activity and 81 million years of life, contends a new report from the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest.

Overall U.S. healthcare prices increased marginally from March 2011 to April 2011, rising 0.1 percent, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Americans' confidence in their ability to access and pay for healthcare dropped to a historic low in April, according to Thomson Reuters.

Two healthcare IT companies are joining forces to market an Internet-based personal health record solution to insurance providers looking to cut unnecessary clinical and administrative costs.

The healthcare sector added more than 37,000 jobs in April and has added 295,000 jobs since April 2010 according to new employment data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

A new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation on a House Republican proposal to convert Medicaid funding to block grants indicates it could force as many as 44 million people out of the program over the next 10 years.

A new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation on a House Republican proposal to convert Medicaid funding to block grants indicates it could force as many as 44 million people out of the program over the next 10 years.

Even with a historically low annual rate of increase, American families are spending $19,393 on healthcare in 2011, according to the Milliman Medical Index.