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The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's Annual Conference and Exhibition, which attracts 30,000 attendees each year, will return to Chicago in 2015 and 2019, President and CEO H. Stephen Lieber announced Monday at a news conference at McCormick Place.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued a proposed rule for hospital inpatient value-based purchasing that is intended to reward hospitals for meeting and exceeding quality and safety measures.
The Healthcare Trust of America, Inc., a self-managed, non-traded real estate investment trust, has completed the acquisition of a medical office park in Cary, N.C., for $28.2 million.
Better Health, LLC, a provider service network, has announced a new healthcare plan called Miami Children's Better Health, in collaboration with Miami Children's Hospital.
A New Orleans-area doctor and the owner and operator of a medical equipment company have been sentenced to prison on charges of healthcare fraud involving durable medical equipment, according to the departments of Justice and Health and Human Services.
Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chairman Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) announced Thursday that the committee will hold hearings to examine how the health reform law benefits Americans.
Kaiser Permanente's Santa Clara Medical Center has installed a solar power system, becoming one of the country's first major medical centers to receive a significant amount of its energy from the sun.
Oklahoma and Kentucky have become the first states under the Medicaid EHR Incentive Program to make incentive payments to providers for the adoption of certified electronic health records.
Blue Shield of California has proposed rate hikes for 200,000 individual policy holders that could see some members' premiums jump as much as 59 percent on March 1.
Atlanta-based MedAssets has recently announced deals with three healthcare systems that are designed to bring clinicians into the picture when determining how to cut waste and save money on supplies.