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CHARLESTON, SC – A well-known provider of IT solutions for the healthcare benefits market is betting that a message can be delivered much more effectively with pictures, rather than text....

Faced with sagging stock prices and running out of assets to sell off, MedAvant Healthcare Solutions has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.The Atlanta-based provider of healthcare te...

Healthcare staffing services provider Cross Country Health has acquired privately-held Medical Doctors Associates, Inc., and its subsidiaries for $112.3 million in cash, in a bid to expand the company...

Proper maintenance of records, complete reporting on forms and strict adherence to regulations should keep not-for-profit hospitals in good standing with the Internal Revenue Service over executive co...

Officials at Philips Electronics North America, a unit of Royal Philips Electronics, have announced that the company will be moving its headquarters to Andover, Mass., where it expects to boost the st...

Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt said Monday his department will do all it can to promote the use of electronic prescribing as a way to launch widespread use of healthcare IT....

PROVIDERS are facing greater pressure to streamline their operations, according to Paul Pitcher, director of financial systems at KLAS. There is an ever-increasing focus on such areas as denials ma...

Most health economists would agree with the truism that about 5 percent of patients in a given populations account for about 50 percent of costs. There are a number of variations on this hyperbolic Pa...

Microsoft executive Bill Crounse, MD urged an audience of healthcare executives here Tuesday at the Third Annual World Congress Leadership Summit on The Road to Interoperability to develop a new busin...

Medical practices stress over EMR conversionSelecting and implementing an electronic health record system is among the top concerns physician practice managers list in a new survey by the...