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Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has released a report that highlights Nebraska's WISEWOMAN program, a community intervention program funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that helps prevent heart disease and stroke by providing screenings and counseling for low-income women.

INFINITT North America is giving its RIS/PACS customers a more complete product with the addition of billing capabilities.

If Congress creates a national health insurance purchasing exchange or a public health insurance plan that would compete with private insurers through the exchange, it should consider establishing federal coverage and underwriting rules that would pre-empt existing state standards.

The Senate's Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee on Thursday passed The Affordable Health Choices Act.

Salaries are on the rise for nurses, pharmacists, physical therapists, home health aides and occupational therapists, according to recent employer survey data.

Endoscopic Technologies, Inc. (Estech) will pay $1.4 million to resolve civil claims of alleged promotion of its surgical ablation devices.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said America's Affordable Health Choices Act, the healthcare reform bill announced Tuesday by the House, is geared toward the middle class and would lower costs to consumers and businesses.

Approximately 12 percent of all front-line managers in healthcare are seriously overleveraged, according to a recent white paper.

The Clark County (Ind.) Council approved a $52 million bond agreement with Clark Memorial Hospital in Jeffersonville, Ind., this week that will allow the hospital to sell bonds for the value of the property and buy them back over time.

Overall hospital prices increased 0.1 percent in June, and were 2.8 percent higher than a year ago, according to data from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.