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Vitera Healthcare Solutions, an electronic health-record company based in Tampa, Fla., announced a deal to acquire Birmingham, Ala.-based SuccessEHS.
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Researchers say a vaccine for a sexually spread virus has cut infections in teen girls by half. This is the first evidence of how well the HPV vaccine works since it came on the market seven years ago.
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Contrary to its advice for others, the CMS won't require and had never planned to ask its Medicare administrative contractors to test their claims processing systems with outside organizations prior to the scheduled 2014 nationwide conversion to the highly complex ICD-10 revision of diagnostic and...
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Sansum Clinic and Cottage Health System have signed a letter of intent to merge and create an integrated health system combining three hospitals and 23 ambulatory sites serving patients near Santa Barbara, Calif., according to a news release.
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The doctors of Cornerstone Health Care in High Point, N.C., understand more than most the risk behind healthcare's push to overhaul payment policy.
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The American Medical Association House of Delegates at its annual meeting in Chicago re-elected one incumbent and two new members to the AMA board of trustees.
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Dr. Michael Weiss, newly elected president of the Michigan Osteopathic Association, said osteopathic physicians are hungry for information on how to better manage their practices and keep up with changes driven by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare.
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Financial pressures likely contributed to a helicopter pilot's decision to continue flying through deteriorating weather before crashing in north Florida, killing a Mayo Clinic heart surgeon and technician on their way to retrieve a heart for transplant in 2011, according to a report from the...
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An estimated $200 billion could have been saved last year if patients and clinicians improved the way they use medications, according to a new study from the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics.
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Hospitals and insurers that will benefit from the new paying customers generated by the expansion of insurance coverage under health reform have moved quietly to promote consumers' new options.
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