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McKesson Corp. is selling its hospital pharmacy automation unit to private-equity firm Francisco Partners.
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Marylanders who signed up for coverage through the state's new health insurance exchange did so under the condition that their information could be shared with law enforcement. That condition has sparked debate about privacy concerns.
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Converting to electronic health records has been a potentially helpful process, but also one that has frustrated South Dakota doctors who find the changeover cumbersome and inefficient, officials said.
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R. Scott Lentz is the new CFO at CareCloud, a Miami-based company that provides cloud-based practice management, electronic health records and medical billings software and services for medical groups.
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StartUp Health, a New York-based incubator for health technology startups, admitted 14 new companies into its three-year development program this week. The program, which received 1,200 applications in the past year, aims to give new medical companies long-term mentoring and access to capital.
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HealthCare.gov has, by all accounts, been an absolute train wreck of a website roll-out. But one thing the site hasn't lacked is traffic: It saw 4.7 million unique visitors in its first 24 hours online. And according to the web analytics firm SimilarWeb, which monitors network traffic, it has a...
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The supercomputer technology that defeated the world's best "Jeopardy!" players is now even smarter, thanks to a collaboration between IBM Research and the Cleveland Clinic.
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Tom Zajac joined population health and data analytics company Wellcentive as CEO on Oct. 8.
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Improving efficiency and cutting costs in healthcare means better collaborating with patients. Web portals and mobile applications can help, but only if they connect with the myriad systems that doctors actually use. Organizations can't forget that a little empathy goes a long way, too.
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Dignity Health, a large and expanding health system based in San Francisco, has formed a revenue cycle management company in a joint venture with Optum, a subsidiary of insurer UnitedHealth Group.
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