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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....
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
The Foresight Corporation of Dublin, Ohio, a provider of business intelligence and transaction automation applications for healthcare markets, has announced that it has repurchased al...
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...