The U.S. Congress set aside $19 billion to digitize healthcare records as part of the economic stimulus package, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times.

CIGNA Corp. plans to launch new technology called the CIGNA Cost of Care Estimator in Spring 2009, according to a CIGNA news release.

Promotion of health information technology plays a significant role in the stimulus packages under consideration in Congress. H.R. 1, the House of Representative's version of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, provides incentive payments for adoption and "meaningful"…

The rate of visits to freestanding ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) tripled from 1996-2006, while the rate of visits to hospital-based surgery centers remained flat during that period, according to a new report from the National Center for Health Statistics at…

Mike O’Keefe, a director in the healthcare real estate group of Navigant Consulting, a practice which provides facility development, program management, real estate advisory, strategic planning, performance improvement, facilities planning and capital advisory services to healthcare providers throughout the United…

More than 3,000 hospitals qualified for the full 2009 payment update for participating in CMS new Hospital Outpatient Quality Data Reporting Program, according to a CMS press release.

The long-discussed CMS Acute Care Episode (ACE) demonstration project will begin in five hospital systems in four states.

In a new report on the healthcare economy released by the McKinsey & Company’s McKinsey Global Institute, the international consulting firm found that outpatient care was the fastest growing segment of healthcare spending, rising to $850 billion in 2006, about…

The Christ Hospital of Cincinnati has purchased The Lindner Clinical Trial Center, according to a press release from the hospital.

"Healthcare cost issues are systemic, and reform must occur at every level and at every point of interaction," writes Marion Jenkins, PhD, CEO of QSE Technologies, in an op-ed piece for the Denver Business Journal's Dec. 5 edition.