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Federal overseers have seldom penalized the healthcare organizations responsible for safeguarding this data, a ProPublica review shows.

By engaging patients through a multifaceted strategy that takes advantage of information technology tools consumers already own and access on a continual basis, providers can improve the likelihood that patient engagement is successful.

Some Kaiser patients still have to wait weeks or even months to see a therapist or psychiatrist, which violates state laws intended to ensure timely access to mental health treatment.

As appropriations are trimmed and payments decline, hospitals in the archipelago state making steep cuts to hold back the losses.

The HHS grants were doled out across all 50 states, with separate amounts earmarked for major metropolitan areas in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.

Deal gives provider ability to participate in the state's health insurance exchange with its narrow network.

A hospital acquiring medical practices is not news. But hospitals having enough managers who can integrate and manage medical practices in a hospital-controlled environment is news.

Department of Health and Human Services says plans lacking substantial coverage of hospital and physician services don't qualify as "minimum value" coverage.

Conditions include keeping all the hospitals open 10 years -- with four of them as acute care facilities -- maintaining charity care and community benefit spending, participating in Medicaid and providing essential health and reproductive services.

Connecting CFOs and clinicians on population health initiatives involves understanding how each group's environment influences decision-making.