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GE's new "healthymagination" project aims to cut healthcare costs, and among all the numbers - including the company's $6 billion investment pledge - the number 15 seems to hold the key.
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), a senior member of the two Senate committees responsible for drafting health reform, said he has concerns with Democrats' plans to give the government more power in healthcare.
The Virginia Department of Medical Assistance Services has signed a five-year, $84 million contract with a private vendor to manage the state's Medicaid program.
The Commonwealth Fund, along with eight others, is launching a national Safety Net Medical Home Initiative, which will provide $6 million over four years to help 68 community health centers in five states become patient-centered medical homes.
One of the nation's largest electronic health record vendors is teaming up with a major healthcare distributor in an effort to convince solo and small-practice physicians to adopt healthcare IT.
How to bring down the costs of the country's $2.4 trillion healthcare system and make care affordable for all Americans dominated the discussion Tuesday as the Senate Finance Committee convened for a hearing on how best to fix a broken system.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, testifying at her first Congressional hearing Wednesday, stoutly defended President Barack Obama's reform plans.
At a speech before the United Nurses of America's 12th National Nurses Congress, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius challenged hospitals to work to reduce healthcare associated infections.
Emdeon, a provider of revenue and payment cycle solutions, is targeting the billions of dollars lost each year in healthcare fraud by acquiring a developer of data analytics technology designed to ferret out healthcare fraud and abuse.
Private health insurance plans serving Medicare beneficiaries will be paid $11.4 billion more in 2009 than the traditional Medicare fee-for-service program, a new Commonwealth Fund study finds.