Banks, other financial institutions moving into health care.
WASHINGTON -- With health savings accounts serving as a point of entry, banks and other financial institutions are rapidly moving into the health care sector, and bankers think they have much to offer in streamlining health care transactions and bringing greater efficiency to the medical world. In...

Health Care Service Finalizes Purchase of MEDecision.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-19 August 2008-Health Care Service Finalizes Purchase of MEDecision(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com MEDecision and Health Care Service (HCSC) announced the closing of a merger transaction pursuant to which MEDecision has become a wholly-owned subsidiary of HCSC and MEDecision's shareholders received $7.00 per share...

Research and Markets Adds Report: State and Local Health Care IT Market, 2007-2012.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-13 August 2008-Research and Markets Adds Report: State and Local Health Care IT Market, 2007-2012(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "State and Local Health Care IT Market, 2007-2012" report to their offering. In a...

Healing and the common good: six myths about single-payer health care.
Single-payer health care--an approach used in Canada and in 28 other industrialized countries--means that care is delivered by the private sector but paid for from a publicly administered trust fund. Like so many other issues in the United States, the single-payer approach has become a political football that each...

Health care heroes feted; City kicks off National Health Center Week.
Byline: Vivian Ho WORCESTER - When Juseni Oliveira's 8-month-old son started having breathing problems, she took him to Great Brook Valley Health Center to see her regular physician, Dr. Daniel O'Donnell. After receiving the care and attention necessary, Ms. Oliveira, 32, brought her son home....

Baby boomers will create multiple challenges for health care system, says IOM report.
The United States needs to move quickly and efficiently to make certain that the health care workforce increases in size and has the proper education and training to handle the needs of a new generation of older Americans, says a new report from the Institutes of Medicine (IOM) titled...

Report urges health care organizations to assess patients' unique and cultural needs.
A new report released by The Joint Commission, titled "One Size Does Not Fit All: Meeting the Health Care Needs of Diverse Populations," urges health care organizations to assess their capacity to meet patients' unique cultural and language needs. The report is based on successful practices now...

The Health Care Innovations Exchange, www.innovations.ahrq.gov, is a program of the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) designed to support health care professionals in sharing and adopting innovations that improve the delivery of care to patients.
The Health Care Innovations Exchange, www.innovations.ahrq.gov, is a program of the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) designed to support health care professionals in sharing and adopting innovations that improve the delivery of care to patients. Users can browse the innovations exchange by subject to find innovations...

McKesson and Magellan Health to Offer Integrated Medical/Behavioral Health Care Management Program.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-11 September 2008-McKesson and Magellan Health to Offer Integrated Medical/Behavioral Health Care Management Program(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com McKesson Health Solutions, a business unit of McKesson, and Magellan Health Services, a specialty health care management company, announced that the companies have agreed to collaborate to offer...

Research and Markets Adds Report: Health Care Equipment & Supplies in the United States.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-11 September 2008-Research and Markets Adds Report: Health Care Equipment & Supplies in the United States(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Health Care Equipment & Supplies in the United States" report to its offerings. In a...