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Hospitals in New York state continue to struggle financially, and a new study suggests that the average operating margin of New York's hospitals is negative, ranking it 49th among the nation's 50 stat...
Insurer UnitedHealthcare and athenahealth, which provides Web-based business services for physician practices, are working together to expand the two companies' real-time claim adjudication capa...
Two healthcare IT giants have announced a strategic alliance to help state governments with their Medicaid Management Information Systems (MMIS). Ingenix, based in Eden Prair...
Americans lack a basic understanding of the terminology that is used to describe their own health insurance coverage, a new survey has found. The results of the survey indicate that b...
A real estate investment trust that issued its initial public offering of stock last summer has announced a $72.4 million investment in medical office buildings. New York-based Car...
The American College of Physicians has received a grant of nearly $225,000 from the Commonwealth Fund to study the cost of a patient-centered medical home. The grant, part of th...
San Francisco-based Practice Fusion has announced a partnership with Physician Services, Inc. of California and Azalea Health Innovations, Inc. of Georgia, allowing the company to offer its bil...
Allscripts, long known for its clinical software and information systems for physicians, is taking aim at hospitals now with the purchase of the Extended Care Information Network, a Chicago-based prov...
PROVIDENCE, RI – Brown University has set out to create the first research database aimed at improving the nation’s long-term care system. Improvements made using the information are es...
After twice vetoing legislation to reauthorize and expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program, President Bush on Saturday signed a bill to extend SCHIP for three months....