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The medical associations identified five opportunities to make immediate reform.
Without enough funding to cover March, many states would not be able to cover all children beyond February without accessing redistribution funds, report says.
If future policies are adopted that eliminate Medicaid expansion and slash the number of insured Americans, experts say many hospitals will fail and be forced to close their doors.
The application platform combines the features of data warehousing, clinical data repositories and health information exchanges and is expected to save on costs.
Pennsylvania systems joins forces to ramp up analytics, population health and community care.
Patients admitted to rural hospitals have greater risk of death during hospitalization than they do in urban hospitals, a study finds. That means it's time for healthcare executives to address this problem.
Centers' ability to provide care to underserved patients will be seriously compromised if the $3.6 billion cut in funding isn't immediately restored.
UnitedHealthcare members who participate in the insurer's UnitedHealthcare Motion employee wellness program, will now be able to use Samsung and Garmin trackers in addition to Fitbit devices.
Resolution 232, adopted this week by the AMA House of Delegates, argues for the legal designation of healthcare facilities as sensitive locations.
Testing certain individuals instead of the patient population for diseases such as tuberculosis and hepatitis B and C, can be more cost-effective, the researchers said.