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The U.S. Senate could increase the number of Americans with health insurance by tens of millions - at no cost to taxpayers - by rejecting cap-and-trade legislation passed by the U.S. House, according to The National Center for Public Policy Research.

According to the California Association of Physician Groups, Accountable Care Organizations could help control healthcare costs “by transcending the old model of fee-for-service charges by doctors and accelerating ‘outcome-based’ medicine and adoption of health information technology.”

Distress and fatigue among medical residents are contributing to self-perceived medical errors, according to Mayo Clinic researchers.

A new Web site is designed to help safety-net clinics learn about the latest thinking in building design.

Community health center advocates and policy experts are applauding an announcement by the U.S. Health and Human Services Department to use $33 million in stimulus funds to train health professionals.

At a rally for health insurance reform Tuesday in Washington, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius discussed a new report highlighting the insurance hardships faced by people with cancer.

With the introduction of Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus' (D-Mont.) health reform bill last week, the committee now begins the difficult process of finding common ground in a deeply divided partisan battle.

Nearly 40,000 Los Angeles County seniors and people living with disabilities who rely on the state's In-Home Supportive Services program for vital care will lose care hours due to budget cuts.

Healthcare IT investors and emerging companies are meeting in New York City’s Park Central Hotel today at the Institute for Health Technology Transformation’s 2009 Health Technology Investment Forum.

MEDai, Inc., an Elsevier subsidiary, has announced that Novant Health, a nine-hospital system serving North and South Carolina and Virginia, has rolled out the company's Pinpoint Review solution.