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The best treatment for patients with mental health issues needs clinical coordination.

Droves of doctors are opting for employment with hospitals and IDNs in lieu of private practices.

At its annual conference, being held this year in Chicago from Aug. 14-17, the Association of Staff Physician Recruiters will address how healthcare organizations can successfully recruit and retain physicians in an increasingly competitive market.

Employee training is the key to avoiding a costly security breach, according to an executive in the Fraud Solutions division at risk mitigation company Kroll.

The Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) released their latest annual salary survey that showed practice management salaries in 2010 changed little from 2009.

The iconic Walter Reed Army Medical Center is in the final days of its 102-year run. Slated to close in September by the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) commission in 2005, the center will begin moving next month.

The Institute of Medicine made recommendations last week for eight preventive services for women that health plans should be required to cover without a co-payment or cost sharing under the Affordable Care Act.

The Apps Against Abuse challenge, a national competition to develop an app that provides young adults with tools to prevent sexual assault and dating violence, was launched recently by Vice President Joe Biden, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.

The cost growth of medical care for people in employer-sponsored health plans slowed to an annualized rate of 3.8 percent in the first three months of the year, compared to cost growth of 6.3 percent in the first quarter of 2010, according to the recently released Thomson Reuters Healthcare Spending Index for Private Insurance.

A new study in the August issue of Health Affairs found that increased public health investments at the local level can produce measurable health improvements.