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By Susan Morse | 04:06 pm | July 15, 2016
Medicaid expansion is making a difference as to whether hospitals are investing in clinics, new equipment and hiring new staff, or looking at the status quo and layoffs, according to a recent report by Georgetown University Health Policy Institute.
By Jessica Davis | 03:14 pm | July 15, 2016
The hacker broke into organizations on the HL7 network, the security firm has found, and has since put those records up for sale on the dark web. The security firm also said TheDarkOverlord is actively looking for more servers to hack in healthcare.
By Kaiser Health News | 09:21 am | July 15, 2016
A recent study examined this pattern and found the prescriptions are used and renewed more often than you might imagine.
By Kaiser Health News | 02:24 pm | July 14, 2016
New failures are piling up among the member-run health insurance co-ops carrying out one of the Affordable Care Act's most idealistic goals, leaving just seven remaining when the health law's fourth enrollment season starts in the fall.
By Kaiser Health News | 09:46 am | July 14, 2016
Americans in their 80s and 90s are not the ones amassing the largest medical bills to hold off death, according to a new analysis that challenges a widely held belief about the costs of end-of-life care.
By Jeff Lagasse | 08:59 am | July 14, 2016
A new report released today by healthcare nonprofit The Leapfrog Group, and analyzed by Castlight Health, said that only 47 percent of hospitals reporting in the 2015 Leapfrog Hospital Survey have the recommended coverage in place regarding intensivists -- highly specialized physicians who work in intensive care units.
By Jeff Lagasse | 04:03 pm | July 13, 2016
New estimates from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services project that health spending growth will outpace the expected average growth in gross domestic product for almost the entire next decade.
By Beth Jones Sanborn | 03:43 pm | July 13, 2016
While most policy changes come from the top down, Geisinger Health System's new dress code for nurses came from an unusual source: patients.
By Kaiser Health News | 09:25 am | July 13, 2016
The deficit of properly trained physicians is expected to get worse. By 2030, one in five Americans will be eligible for Medicare, the government health insurance for those 65 and older.
By Bill Siwicki | 02:24 pm | July 12, 2016
McKesson Health Solutions has acquired IT vendor HealthQX to expand its IT portfolio with HealthQX's ClarityQx value-based payment technology.