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OAKLAND, CA – The Agency for Healthcare Research Quality has awarded $600,000 to Kaiser Permanente’s Center for Health Research to continue its heart disease prevention and management stud...
WESTWOOD, MA – Healthcare information systems vendor MEDITECH is adding e-prescribing and medication reconciliation to its portfolio through an alliance with DrFirst. The deal, announ...
Number of retail health clinics nearing 1,000 A survey of retail clinics by the healthcare list division of Verispan, of Yardley, Pa., listed 921 clinics. The clinics typically are staffe...
SAN ANTONIO, TX – South Texas Total Eye Care, a physician-owned, independent physicians association (IPA) providing eye care for more than 13,000 members, has implemented Plexis Healthcare Syste...
WellCare Health Plans Inc., a managed care company, named a new executive chairman and president/CEO late last week. Charles G. Berg was named executive chairman and Heath Schie...
CHICAGO – The American Medical Association (AMA) is pushing for a permanent fix to a bill that has taken away a three-year medical loan deferment for medical students serving their residency....
THERE’S STILL A LOT of paper scheduling in hospitals today, according to Jared Peterson, vice president of research operations for KLAS Enterprises. Price point, cultural change an...
Aetna PUTS patient safety language into contracts Aetna, of Hartford, Conn., has incorporated language from the Leapfrog Group’s “Never Events” policy in its hospital co...
Hyland, VHA sign deal to expand OnBase network Hyland Software, the Cleveland-based developer of the OnBase enterprise document management software suite, has signed an agreement with the...
In his final State of the Union speech last night, President Bush prioritized pressing domestic economic issues ahead of healthcare, which has been the top domestic issue for several years....