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The Congressional Budget Office's updated budget projections offer hope tempered by big ifs around healthcare issues.
Aiming to single out high-potential health IT startups and help enable their "rapid development and growth," Healthbox is a new accelerator program that offers support for seed-stage companies that can chart the "complex transition into the digital age."
Humana Inc. announced Thursday that it has signed an agreement to acquire Arcadian Management Services, an Oakland, Calif.-based Medicare Advantage HMO with approximately 64,000 members in 15 states.
The New Jersey company, which works with payers, employers and others to tailor incentive-based preventive health and wellness programs for members and employees, has enhanced its platform to deal with specific conditions, such as diabetes and COPD.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded $137 million on Thursday to states to strengthen the public health infrastructure and provide jobs in the core areas of public health.
A new study from Humana and the Wisconsin Health Information Exchange (WHIE) shows that using health information exchanges in emergency departments results in improved provider efficiencies and health plan cost savings.
The recruitment demand for specialists such as radiologists and cardiologists has waned in favor of primary care physicians, reports a physician recruitment review by national healthcare search and consulting firm, Merritt Hawkins, an AMN Healthcare company.
SurModics, Inc., a provider of drug delivery and surface modification technologies to the healthcare industry, announced Wednesday a reduction of approximately 9 percent of its total workforce.
The proportion of Americans who reported going without or delaying needed healthcare declined modestly between 2007 and 2010, according to a national report released today by the Center for Studying Health System Change.
To rein in expenses and streamline care, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, through the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), contracted with Atlanta's Business Computer Applications, Inc. for its electronic medical records system, saving the state $1 billion over the past 10 years, according to the Gartner Group.