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Software application products of the Atlanta-based Eclipsys Corp. will be offered to members of Premier, Inc. through an agreement announced Tuesday between the application developer and the group pur...

An analysis conducted for the Kaiser Family Foundation's Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, "Medicaid, SCHIP and Economic Downturn: Policy Challenges and Policy Responses," projects t...

Six independent rural Maryland hospitals will implement virtual intensive care units, to be monitored by an existing virtual ICU program in an integrated delivery system based in Delaware. Th...

Providing quality healthcare not only has a cost, but also a return on the investment.That's the contention of an organization that wants to prove that Medicaid programs focusing on quality impr...

Sentry Data Systems, Inc. of Deerfield Beach, Fla. has released DRA Tool, a new feature of its Sentinel RCM pharmacy revenue cycle management product. DRA Tool is a reporting and claims editing...

Health Evolution Partners, the investment management firm founded by the nation's former national healthcare information technology chief, has made its first investment - an undisclosed amount - in e-...

Rural Maryland hospitals, backed by a grant from a large insurer, are expected to announce a program to ensure access to critical care physicians by residents in rural areas of the state.The...

The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee has approved a bill introduced by Sens. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) that would prohibit g...

The federal government has put 134 nursing homes on a list of long-term care facilities that it wants to improve systemic issues or face expulsion from the Medicaid program.The Centers for Me...

The House of Representatives on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly to pass a bill intended to delay a series of cuts to the Medicaid program.The Protecting the Medicaid Safety Net Act of 2008 wou...