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St. Luke's Health System, Boise, Idaho, says it will spend $200 million on a new electronic medical records system. The system will be fully launched sometime after 2017.
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Consumers' willingness to carry sensors everywhere becomes important as providers are incentivized by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to keep costs down while improving outcomes. Acting on this newly available wealth of data—perhaps by intervening earlier, more cheaply and...
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When doctors think about tests that might cause sticker shock for their patients, they wouldn't normally consider a simple Pap smear. The cost for that service is normally between $20 and $30. But other tests that laboratories have promoted to doctors along with Pap smears often drive up the price.
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After a month of intense political jockeying, President Barack Obama signed a measure to end the weeks-long government shutdown and raise the nation's debt ceiling.
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HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has no intention of bowing to Republican demands that she resign after the troubled rollout of President Obama's healthcare law.
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UnitedHealth Group third-quarter earnings inched up 1% in a rare performance that failed to trump Wall Street expectations.
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Quest Diagnostics started offering BRCA testing this week as it seeks to tap into the lucrative breast cancer genetic testing market.
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