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Nonprofit healthcare network becomes the first hospital to offset all of its fossil fuel use with locally produced, green energy.

State spent just 3 cents per person on diabetes prevention in the 2012-2013 fiscal year, compared to New York's 42 cents per person in state and federal money that year.

Health Care Transformation Task Force says 75 percent of the members will convert by 2020 as Medicare plans to tie 50 percent of payments to quality by 2018.

The gift — the second $50 million grant in two years — will help fund an eight-care complex in Philadelphia.

Advocates for the change have been posting updates, information and even a few cute memes on social media using the #ICD10Matters hashtag.

As hundreds of hospitals face steep fines, one doctor explains how class, poverty and neighborhood demographics affect the trend.

Providence Health in the northwest and Novant Health in the southeast are pushing population health, high technology and other options that are creating value and improving care.

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The Washington State Hospital Association this week launched a transparency website, giving the public access to information and ratings on the services it provides.

Do it or else. Increasingly, that's the approach taken by employers who are offering financial incentives for workers to take part in wellness programs that incorporate screenings that measure blood pressure, cholesterol and body mass index, among other things.