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The Department of Health and Human Services unveiled a plan Wednesday that includes healthcare information technology as a critical piece in preventing healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). The goa...
Benefitfocus has landed a contract with one of the largest health insurers on the Atlantic coast.The Charleston, S.C.-based healthcare benefits software provider announced Tuesday a deal with...
According to a December 2008 survey conducted by the Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania, the state's hospitals are being hurt by the national recession, and patients are feeling t...
Owens & Minor, of Richmond, Va., has signed a definitive agreement to sell is direct-to-consumer diabetes supply business to the Liberty Healthcare Group, Inc. for $63 million in cash.Pat...
A developer of electronic billing and payment solutions for the healthcare industry, among others, is adding a feature that allows patients and providers to establish payment plans.Internet P...
National health spending in 2007 was at its lowest rate of overall growth since 1998, according to a new report from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. CMS researchers said slo...
The sour economy is expected to hit non-profit hospitals especially hard in 2009, according to a new survey from the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy.A survey of roughly 800 fundraisin...
AARP CEO Bill Novelli identified healthcare IT as a key initiative in his organization's work with the 111th Congress on reducing healthcare cost and boosting quality."This is not the ti...
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida (BCBSF) has launched its low-cost insurance plans, available to uninsured Floridians as part of Gov. Charles Crist's chosen healthcare insurers selected to...
Grady Memorial Hospital is considering a proposal to increase medical costs to some uninsured patients and acknowledged that it could cut off some people from free care.According to reports i...