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Officials at Philips Electronics North America, a unit of Royal Philips Electronics, have announced that the company will be moving its headquarters to Andover, Mass., where it expects to boost the st...
Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt said Monday his department will do all it can to promote the use of electronic prescribing as a way to launch widespread use of healthcare IT....
HONOLULU – Both members of the Hawaii Medical Service Association (HMSA), part of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, and non-members will be able to access online care services through Amer...
TAMPA, FL – According to the Centers for Disease Control, an estimated $75 billion in direct medical expenditures was attributable to obesity in 2003, and annual hospital costs related to overwe...
The push to make healthcare more consumer-friendly has reached into yet another staple of everyday life: The cell phone.The development of Apple’s new iPhone, whose 3G version was laun...
DALLAS – Healthvision is setting its sights on the Canadian market with the acquisition of MediSolution, Ltd.’s healthcare unit.In a deal announced July 16, the Dallas-based provi...
Executive search firms form strategic allianceTwo of the nation’s leading healthcare executive search firms have formed a strategic alliance. CES Partners Ltd. and Hersher Associates...
PROVIDERS are facing greater pressure to streamline their operations, according to Paul Pitcher, director of financial systems at KLAS. There is an ever-increasing focus on such areas as denials ma...
Healthcare staffing services provider Cross Country Health has acquired privately-held Medical Doctors Associates, Inc., and its subsidiaries for $112.3 million in cash, in a bid to expand the company...
Medical practices stress over EMR conversionSelecting and implementing an electronic health record system is among the top concerns physician practice managers list in a new survey by the...