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NEW YORK - Democratic and Republican presidential candidates are taking far different approaches in proposing healthcare reform, according to an extensive analysis of the seven top candidates by the H...

BOSTON - Massachusetts' statewide healthcare reform is expected to have spillover cost consequences on small businesses, according to a Thursday report released by the Center for Studying Health Syste...

Carestream Health, Inc. of Rochester, N.Y. and Avreo, Inc. of Charleston, S.C. have entered into an agreement that enables Avreo to start selling Carestream’s line of eHealth Managed Serv...

ALEXANDRIA, VA - The National Rural Health Association is backing three bills that the group contends would ensure the financial viability of community pharmacies. The...

U.S. healthcare payers to limit IT investments in 2008 Although top U.S. healthcare payers reported pricing transparency initiatives in 2007, they face challenges in 2008 that will limit...

CHICAGO – A coalition of providers, suppliers, group purchasing organizations and others has endorsed standards for organizational and product identifiers intended to facilitate supply ord...

MALVERN, PA – “American Idol,” meet American healthcare. In an effort to bring its new product to the marketplace and help a cash-strapped, small hospital. Si...

BOSTON - The Massachusetts Hospital Association said Tuesday that its members will no longer charge patients or insurers for treatments rendered to address preventable errors that occur within a hospi...

Contributed by Bill Lenhart and Richard Davis WHEN IT COMES TO nursing home, rehabilitation facility and hospital bankruptcy cases, most debtor companies are in financial distress because o...

CHARLESTON, WV – Body mass index (BMI) trainings conducted in the three largest West Virginia cities were so successful that sponsor UniCare will expand the trainings to other regions in...