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Iowa Health System, Des Moines, said it would abandon its geographically apt name for UnityPoint Health. The switch comes after the health system, which owns or manages 20 Iowa hospitals and another two in Illinois, began to consolidate its nine physician groups in 2012 and sought to brand doctors...
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Just two potential Medicare accountable care organizations so far have asked federal officials for expedited antitrust reviews through a special avenue created to make sure antitrust uncertainty didn't create a drag on the government's attempts to get the model off the ground.
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UnitedHealthcare and about 50 hospitals say they will conduct research comparing some of the costliest medical devices and then use that data to inform their purchasing decisions.
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The waiting room at Cedar Riverside Clinic, Minneapolis, was packed with patients and translators one recent morning and buzzing with multiple languages. To Julie Tate, waiting to see her doctor, it was a familiar sight.
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A coalition of five electronic health-record developers created a buzz and a controversy last month when they announced they were forming the CommonWell Health Alliance to promote health information exchange.
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The agency overseeing implementation of most of the 2010 healthcare overhaul may finally be getting a confirmed leader, and it comes at a critical time for that complex effort.
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Five Tennessee healthcare organizations have joined a pilot project to exchange information using the federally developed Direct secure-messaging protocol.
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Dartmouth College's Geisel School of Medicine named Dr. Elliott Fisher to succeed Dr. James Weinstein as director of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, effective immediately.
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The movement among employers to push insurers to adopt health plan benefit designs that improve medical outcomes without raising costs is slowly gathering steam, according to an employer coalition.
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Similar to a situation once described in the old Pogo comic strip, the U.S. healthcare industry looks to be “confronted with insurmountable opportunities” and it is being plunged into an environment where anything can happen and probably will, according to panelists offering their...
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