Alliance Health Networks, a Salt Lake City-based health social networking company, has acquired Medify, a Seattle-based provider of treatment information for patients and caregivers.
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The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology is reorganizing, creating an Office of the Chief Medical Officer to better address physician affairs.
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Quality Systems has bought the Poseidon Group, an emergency department information systems vendor, in the fourth company acquisition that the Irvine, Calif.-based health IT provider has made in the past year.
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Creating a new Medicare payment modifier that increased or decreased hospital reimbursements based on their quality and costs would help rein in geographic variations in the program, according to two Democratic senators.
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Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick said he is confident that healthcare cost increases can be slowed to no more than the annual growth of the Massachusetts economy without harming the hospitals and doctors that make up the state's dominant industry.
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A small Catholic college in Ohio said Tuesday it was dropping health insurance coverage for students rather than comply with a federal mandate that the plan provide free birth control.
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Victor Hand, a semi-retired railway manager in Maine, grew so alarmed when he learned that his state was building a database to store all residents' medical files that he rushed to the hospital to try to opt out.
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Six weeks after Howard University Hospital in Washington told more than 34,000 patients that a contractor's laptop containing their personal health information had been stolen, federal authorities have filed criminal charges against a hospital worker accused of selling people's medical records.
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Latinos earned 10% of the degrees and certificates awarded in 2009-10 for students enrolled in healthcare-related professions, according to a study.
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What strategies can hospitals use to reduce their costs of treating Medicaid patients, and how can they work with their state Medicaid programs to maximize reimbursement? Find out by signing up for our Webcast: Making Medicaid Work, which will start at 11 a.m. ET Tuesday, May 22.
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