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Royal Philips Electronics will acquire healthcare IT vendor Visicu in a $430 million deal, Philips announced today. The purchase is a step towards Philips' goal of...

Despite the uncertainty posed by healthcare reform and reimbursement changes, hospitals appear to be bullish on healthcare facility projects. A strong majority of...

3i Infotech, an Edison, N.J.-based provider of IT solutions and services, has announced that FinCor Holdings, Inc. has selected the company's PREMIA Integrated Insurance management solution to...

Shares of MedAssets closed sharply higher on Thursday as the company sold its initial public offering of stock. MedAsset shares closed at $20.50 in trading on Dec. 13, up 28 percent f...

U.S. Preventive Medicine is crossing the Atlantic. The Dallas-based provider of prevention-based services for hospitals and healthcare providers in the United States has signed a l...

Uncertainty over plans to reauthorize the State Children's Health Insurance Program is likely to cause states to cut back on coverage and take other steps to cut back on services....

Spending on hospital services could top $1 trillion in 2008, based on estimated growth in hospital charges between 1997 and 2005. Data also indicated that the growth...

For the second time in two months, President Bush yesterday vetoed legislation to expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program in an effort to prevent Congressional Democrats from spending an...

Small pharmacies say they are threatened by a new federal law to take effect in January that could cause many of them to close, according to Charles Sewell, senior vice president of the National Commu...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Monday that 42.5 million U.S. residents of all ages were uninsured in the first half of 2007. There was no significant change in the percentage...