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Data breaches are costly and can do great damage to a healthcare organization's reputation. Here are 10 of the largest data breaches in 2012... so far.

The California HealthCare Foundation and a group of innovators have released a technical prototype and road map for states and the federal government to create a health insurance exchange.

While consumers and developing countries are driving the growth of the global mHealth market developed nations like the United States are slower to adapt finds a new study by PricewaterhouseCoopers.

While many private payers across the country have rushed to launch payment initiatives wrapped around healthcare delivery models like ACOs and patient-centered medical homes, Washington-based Premera Blue Cross has found success via its unique payment model it calls Global Outcomes Contracting.

One of the government's goals is to align its priorities with the private sector, including the development of accountable care organizations, said Marilyn Tavenner, acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, in a keynote address Thursday at the Third National ACO Summit in Washington, D.C.

UnitedHealthcare announced this week the launch of myHealthcare Cost Estimator, an online tool that allows its members to search for quality healthcare providers while also providing them with a cost estimate for more than 100 different procedures.

As women's health issues have been in the spotlight in recent months and as the healthcare law hangs in the balance waiting for a ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court, the Obama administration is in high gear to promote the law's benefits.

A new analysis suggests that disruptive innovation is the only way to restrain skyrocketing healthcare costs and transform the industry.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced yesterday 45 commercial, state and federal insurers who will participate in the Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) initiative, an effort to improve public health via an emphasis on primary care.

In the Congressional Budget Office's latest long-term budget outlook, the nonpartisan federal agency continued to hammer the message that the country's aging population and rising healthcare costs mean that lawmakers and the country as a whole have difficult choices to make in the days ahead.