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Neither President Obama, in his State of the Union Address, nor Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels, in his Republican response, said very much about healthcare.
One of the critical challenges to the successful adoption of patient-centered healthcare is ensuring that the patient adheres to his or her medication requirements. This means taking the right mediation in the right dose at the right time, with the right outcomes.
In 2011, a total of $227.4 billion was committed to financing healthcare merger, acquisition and takeover activity, representing an 11 percent increase over the $205.6 billion spent in 2010, according to a new report from Irving Levin Associates, Inc.
Twenty-two percent of healthcare IT and pharma mergers and acquisitions in 2011 were financed by private equity, venture capital and other investment firms, according to a new report from investment bank Berkery Noyes.
Fortune magazine recently released its annual 100 Best Companies to Work For list. Healthcare companies nabbed 17 slots. What is their secret to creating a workplace that makes employees want to stay and makes their companies the ones for which job seekers aim? Healthcare Finance News reached out to those companies to find out.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is filling in more details about how physicians and hospitals may appeal decisions that prevent them from receiving or keeping payment as part of the EHR Incentive Program.
The American Medical Society sent Congress a letter yesterday urging lawmakers to use excess baseline budget projections for military actions in Iraq and Afghanistan to fix Medicare's sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula and avert a 27 percent cut to physician payments set to begin on March 1.
UPMC attempts to reduce supply chain expenses by using an electronic data interchange.
The Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is offering $14 million in grants to support research to build a scientific evidence base for effective public reporting.
HealthGrades, a provider of consumer healthcare information, today released a list of America's top cities for hospital care.