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Seven hospitals in Florida, Mississippi, Texas, South Carolina, North Carolina and Alabama have agreed to pay more than $6.3 million to settle allegations that submitted false claims to Medicare, according to the Department of Justice.

The 112th Congress met for the first time on Wednesday, with Republicans making their first order of business a repeal of the healthcare reform law.

An Arizona patient awaiting a liver transplant who was removed from the waiting list as a result of state Medicaid budget cuts has died - the second such person to die since the cuts were announced on Oct. 1, 2010.

Healthcare spending in the United States grew 4 percent in 2009 to $2.5 trillion, or $8,086 per person, the slowest rate of growth in the 50-year history of the National Health Expenditure Accounts.

Sales for the mobile medical application market are estimated to be worth $84.1 million in 2010, according to a new report by healthcare market research publisher Kalorama Information.

IBM and Premier healthcare alliance plan to integrate health information from across hospitals and other healthcare sites, creating a model that Premier and IBM executives say will benefit more than 2,400 hospitals and thousands of other healthcare sites.

Orlando's Florida Hospital, billed as the largest and busiest hospital in the United States, has entered into an agreement with ERIS Medical Technologies to implement that company's automated .net charge capture software.

Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) has announced that Ohio State University is receiving a $100 million grant for a construction project at OSU Medical Center.

The economic downturn continues to impact New Jersey hospitals through the loss of jobs and services, according to a recent survey of the state's acute care hospitals.

The Puget Sound Health Alliance has announced that 12 teams from six hospitals across Washington will participate in a nationwide effort to improve healthcare quality.