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ANDOVER, MA – For healthcare providers burdened with IT expenses and looking for an economical SSO solution, Sentillion has an answer: A shot of ExpreSSO. “We’ve create...

RALEIGH, NC – Eight healthcare organizations in Wake County, N.C., are collaborating in hopes of improving coordination of care for their uninsured residents, thus providing better quality and c...

Contributed by Sherry Elliott and Leslie Fox ACCORDING TO THE American Medical Group Association’s 2006 Medical Group Compensation and Financial Survey, physician co...

NEARLY 30 YEARS AGO, my father was hospitalized for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis in a Chicago-area hospital. Not that I’m dating myself, but he was a patient in a four-person ward for nearl...

Peter Arnold, 67, is a stroke survivor from Chicago. He is disabled and suffers from seizures. On Aug. 14, Arnold wrote his Congressman and other federal leaders, hoping to bring to their attention th...

LONDON – A report by independent market analyst Datamonitor predicts the home telehealth market will grow at a five-year compound annual rate of 56 percent, compared to only 9.9 percent growth i...

WASHINGTON – The number of Americans without health insurance has risen by more than 2 million since 2005, and among them are 700,000 more uninsured children, the U.S. Census Bureau has announce...

WASHINGTON – The book appears complete on the federal government’s rules to limit the possibility of financial conflict of interest by physicians who refer patients to their own facilities...

WASHINGTON – A recent study released by the Government Accountability Office encourages the federal government to more closely watch spending under Medicare’s alternative HMO care plan, th...

CINCINNATI – Bloomington, Ind., and Clark and Champaign counties in Ohio announced the launch of their community health information exchanges, or HIEs, in September. By leveragi...