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In a speech delivered to the 2007 HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition Thursday morning, Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt said he expects a rapid transformation to a competition-b...
A new plan to fund local organizations to assess and report on providers' quality of care performance was announced Wednesday by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt....
A hospital's CEO doesn't typically do rounds at midnight, particularly to allay IT concerns. But that's what Salem Hospital's CEO did to ensure that front-line users felt comfortable with the facility...
On the day prior to the official start of HIMSS 2007, a new conference-related event brought together leaders of emerging healthcare IT companies and venture capitalists looking to invest in the indus...
Minority and low-income Medicare beneficiaries are relying on Medicare Advantage Plans and MediGap for healthcare coverage, new studies by America's Health Insurance Plans have found....
The CBORD Group, an Ithaca, N.Y.-based provider of food and nutrition management and cashless card systems to healthcare facilities, has announced a multi-year, sole-source agreement...
Employers who want to contain healthcare costs should consider implementing innovative benefit designs, said a study released yesterday by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC)....
A leading Israeli HMO specializing in healthcare value and quality systems announced Feb. 20 that it has been selected to help build a new national healthcare information technology infrastructure for...
At one of the many briefings, congressional hearings and non-profit forums held this month in Washington on the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) spoke...
Congress saw students, physicians and other healthcare industry stakeholders lobby for expanded coverage of the uninsured last week as part of the American Medical Association's national health advoca...