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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is launching a two-state pilot program to provide online personal health records. The initiative is aimed at providing patients with better ca...

A state noted for a difficult financial environment for hospitals is promising to give facilities some cushion, but the assistance will come with some tradeoffs.New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine la...

Conseco, Inc. has announced plans to transfer the Conseco Senior Health Insurance Company to an independent trust for the benefit of its long-term care policyholders.Under the terms of the pr...

U.S. Preventive Medicine of Jacksonville, Fla. has announced that the City of Tempe, Ariz. has extended its contract with the company to provide disease management services to employees with as...

QuadraMed has announced that the Los Altos Hills, Calif.-based Daughters of Charity Health System has signed a $15.8 million contract to expand the use of QuadraMed CPR (QCPR) across its five-hospital...

The Los Angeles city attorney and federal officials have filed charges against three hospitals, their executives and several others, charging that they recruited homeless individuals to receive unnece...

With a state budget crisis threatening the ability of community health centers to deliver services, the California HealthCare Foundation is chipping in $10 million to a low-interest loan pool designed...

Medicare is doing a poor job in screening suppliers of durable medical equipment, after failing a recent test to identify two fake suppliers set up as a test by a government agency.In a test...

Officials at MedAvant Healthcare Solutions have set a September 8 date for an auction sale of the struggling company and already have one purchaser lined up.The Atlanta-based provider of heal...

Life sciences companies globally are turning to e-clinical solutions in order to improve inefficiencies and cut costs during the most expensive phase of drug development, says a new report.Th...