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WASHINGTON – Payers are supporting Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt’s call for large payers, including Medicare and Medicaid, to mandate e-prescribing....

CHARLESTON, SC – Just in time for the new year: Health insurance purchased online. Motivated in part by a roughly 30 percent increase in online purchases during the recent hol...

SIOUX FALLS, SD – Using a virtual intensive care unit is enabling a rural healthcare system to provide critical care cost-effectively across several states. The virtual approach has b...

BOSTON – When the Commonwealth of Massachusetts decided in April 2006 to make it mandatory that all residents have health insurance, officials realized they’d better have something in...

Contributed by Sen. Chuck Grassley HEALTHCARE REFORM has been elusive over the past two decades. Neither Congress nor the sitting president has been able to agree on ways to improve our hea...

A study conducted in part by ActiveHealth Management has found that a value-based insurance design program can increase compliance on the use of certain medications for chronic conditions if coupled w...

LOUISVILLE, KY – Health plans and large employer groups are looking to implement best practices and quantify ROI to validate wellness programs with incentives....

ROCHESTER, NY – The Greater Rochester Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO) began its four-office pilot in early December, enabling physicians to exchange health information....

ORGANIZATIONS HOPING TO EXCHANGE health data within geographic regions are struggling to achieve their chief goals, and many are failing financially. Electronic clinical data exchange is...

CHICAGO – Hospitals seem to be adjusting to the need for more specific coding by moving that responsibility to interdisciplinary processes and adopting clinical documentation improvement pr...