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The MRO Corporation, a King of Prussia, Pa.-based developer of disclosure management applications and services for healthcare providers, has acquired the assets of Keystone Management Solutions, a Malvern, Pa.-based provider of release of information services.
The Department of Health and Human Services has made available more than $100 million in funding for up to 75 community transformation grants. HHS officials said the grants, funded by the Affordable Care Act, are aimed at helping communities reduce chronic diseases.
An analysis of Medicare by the Department of Health and Human Services shows changes implemented under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will save more than $120 billion over the next five years.
WakeMed Health and Hospitals of Raleigh, N.C., has submitted an unsolicited offer to purchase rival Rex Healthcare from the UNC Health Care system for $750 million.
The draft proposals for measures for meaningful use Stage 2 are taking shape. The panel has incorporated more emphasis on making the patient an active participant in healthcare and more exchange of health information as central to a number of the objectives.
Ventas has completed its $3.1 billion acquisition of 118 private-pay senior housing communities of the privately-owned Atria Senior Living Group. Ventas had announced the acquisition in October 2010.
Comparative effectiveness research aimed at determining the efficacy of medical treatments could deprive the country of $4 trillion in economic activity and 81 million years of life, contends a new report from the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest.
Overall U.S. healthcare prices increased marginally from March 2011 to April 2011, rising 0.1 percent, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Americans' confidence in their ability to access and pay for healthcare dropped to a historic low in April, according to Thomson Reuters.
Two healthcare IT companies are joining forces to market an Internet-based personal health record solution to insurance providers looking to cut unnecessary clinical and administrative costs.