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Benefit Informatics, a Tulsa, Okla.-based healthcare technology partner for self-insured benefit plan administrators, has added Sparks, Nev.-based CDS Group Health as a customer....
A recent report asserts that reforming the healthcare system to cover some or all of America's 47 million uninsured, as proposed by some 2008 presidential candidates, would increase demand for healthc...
The promise of federal stimulation of the economy has prompted a call for assistance from the healthcare industry. Several healthcare groups have banded together to ask Congr...
Wal-Mart Stores CEO and President Lee Scott says the company's decision to contract with select employers on prescription claims management will save some of the employers more than $100 million in 20...
WASHINGTON – A report issued last month by the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services is calling on the agency to require that physician-owned special...
Figuring out how to fully contain healthcare costs is one difficult task. It reminds me of the age-old impossibility of trying to close your hand completely around a balloon that, while partially defl...
With healthcare a top domestic issue in the 2008 presidential election, a new study shows that voters are not likely to cross party lines when it comes to reform....
Contributed by Michael Mytych RECENT PUBLISHED RESEARCH on the state of regional health information organization initiatives indicates a lack of progress on their deployment and sustainability....
The federal government has announced two separate grant programs aimed at rural providers to improve quality or implement data systems. Both grant programs were announced late l...
DUBLIN, OH – Many hospitals struggle to implement information technology – to gain clinician buy-in, retrofit infrastructure and thoroughly retrain staff.Not a problem at Dublin Methodist...