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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a proposed rule that most medical devices distributed in the United States carry a unique device identifier (UDI).
On Tuesday it was announced by the Marquette General Health System (MGHS) Board of Trustees that it has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by Duke LifePoint Healthcare.
Taking a cue from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, UnitedHealthcare has launched its own Blue Button program, enabling its plan participants to access and print their personal health records (PHRs) with the click of a mouse.
Martha Jefferson Hospital of Charlottesville, Va., took the top honors in Soliant.com's recent poll of America's Most Beautiful Hospitals.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded more than $971 million to continue improving preparedness and health outcomes for a wide range of public health threats within every state, eight U.S. territories and four of the nation's largest metropolitan areas, HHS officials announced Monday.
A new tracking poll conducted by Kaiser Family Foundation in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling on the Affordable Care Act showed that slightly more Americans approved of the decision with 47 percent voicing approval and 43 percent disapproving.
Large pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has agreed to pay $3 billion in order to resolve charges of engaging in illegal schemes related to unlawful marketing and pricing of some of the drugs it manufactures in what has become the largest healthcare fraud scheme in the country's history.
As social media sites gain in popularity in healthcare settings, there are several potential legal issues to be aware of says a new white paper by Internet solutions firm Actiance.
As part of the ACA, the Supreme Court upheld a new tax provision intended to help fund healthcare reform -- a 2.3 percent excise tax on medical device sales beginning Jan. 1, 2013.
Despite a decline in the number of commercially insured children, healthcare spending on children grew at a faster rate than healthcare spending on adults from 2007 to 2010, according to a new report from the Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI).