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Cardinal Health has joined the Environmental Protection Agency's SmartWay Transport Partnership, a program in which the EPA and industry leaders work together to reduce greenhouse gases and air pollution.
The Joint Commission is considering a new primary care home designation as an add-on to its ambulatory care accreditation program and is soliciting input on the additional requirements.
Roughly $48 billion of Medicare's $507 billion budget in 2010 went to fraudulent or improper payments, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office.
A new survey from Intuit Health, the developer of patient portal and communication technology, finds two major trends when it comes to Americans and their healthcare: They're worried about their medical bills, and they expect their physicians to be easily accessible online.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has released a report showing that the Early Retiree Reinsurance Program, created by the Affordable Care Act, is reducing healthcare costs for early retirees.
Kaiser Permanente is planning a structural departure: It wants to build a small hospital rather than its usual large medical center. Since it's stepping out of its comfort zone, the company launched a design competition, "Small Hospital, Big Idea," in February, seeking an open hospital design from students, architects, engineers, designers and multidisciplinary teams for a small hospital to be built in southern California.
An opinion piece published in February's edition of the New England Journal of Medicine calls for the creation of a national health policy curriculum for medical schools.
The Indiana Health Information Exchange (IHIE) -- the largest HIE in the nation -- announced Wednesday that enrollment in its Quality Health First Program has reached 1,500 physicians in 50 communities, improving care for more than one million patients throughout Indiana.
The Health Information Management Systems Society's (HIMSS) Annual Conference and Exhibition, HIMSS11, has come and gone, but attendees of the pre-conference HIE Symposium returned home with numerous lessons learned and best practices presented by veterans in the health information exchange field.
More than 1,000 registered nurses at Kaiser Permanente's Los Angeles Medical Center are going on strike Wednesday - the first nursing strike at the Sunset Boulevard facility in 20 years.