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Kaiser Permanente's Santa Clara Medical Center has installed a solar power system, becoming one of the country's first major medical centers to receive a significant amount of its energy from the sun.
Oklahoma and Kentucky have become the first states under the Medicaid EHR Incentive Program to make incentive payments to providers for the adoption of certified electronic health records.
Blue Shield of California has proposed rate hikes for 200,000 individual policy holders that could see some members' premiums jump as much as 59 percent on March 1.
Atlanta-based MedAssets has recently announced deals with three healthcare systems that are designed to bring clinicians into the picture when determining how to cut waste and save money on supplies.
Seven hospitals in Florida, Mississippi, Texas, South Carolina, North Carolina and Alabama have agreed to pay more than $6.3 million to settle allegations that submitted false claims to Medicare, according to the Department of Justice.
The 112th Congress met for the first time on Wednesday, with Republicans making their first order of business a repeal of the healthcare reform law.
An Arizona patient awaiting a liver transplant who was removed from the waiting list as a result of state Medicaid budget cuts has died - the second such person to die since the cuts were announced on Oct. 1, 2010.
Healthcare spending in the United States grew 4 percent in 2009 to $2.5 trillion, or $8,086 per person, the slowest rate of growth in the 50-year history of the National Health Expenditure Accounts.
Sales for the mobile medical application market are estimated to be worth $84.1 million in 2010, according to a new report by healthcare market research publisher Kalorama Information.
IBM and Premier healthcare alliance plan to integrate health information from across hospitals and other healthcare sites, creating a model that Premier and IBM executives say will benefit more than 2,400 hospitals and thousands of other healthcare sites.