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HealthGrades has named the top 10 cities in the United States with the fewest reports of patient safety incidents at hospitals.

Nearly half of healthcare professionals participating in Beacon Partners' 2011 Healthcare Reform Study think repealing healthcare reform will negatively impact patient care.

There is a growing trend among healthcare providers to hire certified case managers, according to a new white paper from the Commission for Case Manager Certification.

Senior payer and provider executives say the Medicare Shared Savings Program and competition from other organizations, rather than pressure from employers, are driving the formation of commercial ACOs.

A federal appeals court decision that supports clarifications to the term "creditor" under the red flags rule has prompted the American Medical Association to drop a similar suit against the Federal Trade Commission.

The U.S. healthcare sector continued its steady creation of new jobs, with employment increasing in February by approximately 34,300 positions.

Some of the country's most prominent healthcare systems, including the Geisinger Health System, Intermountain Healthcare, Kaiser Permanente, the Mayo Clinic and the Sisters of Mercy Health System, have joined together to adopt GS1 standards for their supply chains.

PHILADELPHIA - Improving the availability, accuracy and delivery of information in an actionable way is at the heart of the myriad reforms impacting the healthcare industry today, according to an IDC Health Insights analyst.

The Health Industry Group Purchasing Association has called Medtronic's cancellation of some of its largest group purchasing organization contracts "nothing short of an attack on America's hospitals."

The American Medical Association is calling on the business community to help fight administrative waste in healthcare. A root cause of the $200 billion-a-year problem, says AMA President Cecil B. Wilson, MD, is lack of standardization.