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HHS on Wednesday released enhanced standards to help health and healthcare organizations promote health equity, advance quality and remove disparities in healthcare. .
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Two private-sector initiatives to promote health information exchange received a total of $480,000 in federal grants to collaborate with the government on developing governance models for exchange activities.
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Two months after vetoing the bills because of abortion restrictions, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder on Monday signed two bills to allow Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan to convert into a nonprofit mutual health insurance company, pay an estimated $100 million in annual state and local taxes and,...
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The Defense Department and the Veterans Affairs Department are budgeted to burn through $758 million during the current fiscal year to integrate their healthcare operations' various electronic health-record systems, and the soaring costs of that interoperability project led both departments to...
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Thanks to a proposed CMS rule change, dietitians and other clinicians at hospitals will be able to do the jobs they were trained for without having to hunt down a physician to supervise them.
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Has the federal government's investment of more than $10 billion in meaningful-use payments been worth it, or has the program been slow to promote electronic health record interoperability? That's the question Dr. David Blumenthal, former head of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health...
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Moody's Investors Service downgraded a record amount of debt held by not-for-profit healthcare providers last year as concerns mounted about weakening inpatient volume and reimbursement.
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When it comes to making business decisions, Stephen Howard believes in an open mind and meticulous due diligence. It's an approach that has proved invaluable during his years of healthcare governance.
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Daniel W. Farrell Jr.—board chairman at Defiance Regional (Ohio) Hospital—prefers to give of his time, talent and resources quietly and without fuss.
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For 45 years, RoseMarie Reno has sought to ensure that Tri-City Medical Center in Oceanside, Calif., is a thriving, independent, publicly owned hospital.
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