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In an effort to boost drug safety, a new online service has been launched that allows doctors to check the FDA-approved labeling for the most commonly prescribed drugs.
Analysts speaking at the Nashville Health Care Council this week said the nation should expect to see more hospital consolidation and more patients in the healthcare system in the future.
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Tufts Health Plan have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore a merger of the two health plans.
MedAssurant, which seeks to better use healthcare data to drive clinical outcomes and financial performance, has announced an innovation that's shown to increase analytical process runs by a factor of 2,000 over methodologies previously available.
The Mississippi Medicaid program has contracted Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. (ACS) to help manage the government's EHR meaningful use incentive program.
Pay-for-performance programs, which reward doctors for quality care and patient outcomes, may not be improving patient care, according to a new study.
New reimbursement models driven by healthcare reform top the list of healthcare provider predictions for 2011 from IDC Health Insights analysts Judy Hanover and Lynn Dunbrack.
The government's healthcare fraud prevention and enforcement efforts recovered more than $4 billion in taxpayer dollars for the Medicare, Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program in 2010, the largest sum ever recovered in a single year, according to findings published in the government's Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program report.
The Office of the Inspector General has reported that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' policy of prepayment to Medicare Advantage plans allowed the private insurers to earn and retain more than $450 million in interest income in 2007.
Perceptive Software, based in Shawnee, Kan., has announced that Memorial Hospital and Manor in Bainbridge, Ga., is deploying the company's ImageNow document management, imaging and workflow solution in its medical records and registration departments.