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Organizations hoping to exchange health data within geographic regions are struggling to achieve their chief goals, and many are failing financially. Electronic clinical data ex...

The CareSource Foundation has announced its sixth round of healthcare-related grants, with a total of $127,000 going to 15 organizations. The grants aim to assist t...

Just in time for the holidays: Health insurance purchased online. Motivated in part by an expected 29 percent increase in online purchases this holiday season,...

The American College of Physicians, the nation's largest medical specialty group, yesterday endorsed single-payer healthcare as a national reform agenda. ACP, wit...

A large national bank and a healthcare information technology vendor long known for enabling healthcare transactions are teaming up in an alliance to jointly serve their clients....

The Sentinel Group, a Lake Forest, Ill.-based provider of health claim fraud and abuse services, has signed Summit Administration Services, a third-party administrator based in Scottsdale, Ariz...

Mountain States Health Alliance has signed an agreement to purchase Russell County Medical Center (RCMC), a 78-bed acute care hospital located in Lebanon, Va. The hospital is currently affiliated with...

Aetna is initiating a program designed to encourage members to buy medications that are proven to be effective in managing high-risk clinical conditions. The Hartford,...

Twenty-five of the 26 practices under Greene Health Partners (GHP) are now able to bill for all services effectively, calculate return on investment easily and are pulling in money faster after implem...

The debate heated up yesterday over the future of e-prescribing as it relates to controlled substances. Many proponents of e-prescribing say adoption could be more widespread if doctors weren't so enc...