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Redding, Calif.-based Shasta Regional Medical Center, a Prime Healthcare Services hospital, has agreed to pay $275,000 to the Department of Health and Human Services to settle alleged HIPAA privacy rule violations.

GE Healthcare plans to invest $2 billion over the next five years to accelerate the development of innovative software for healthcare systems and applications, addressing new and pressing operational and productivity challenges faced by healthcare organizations around the world.

Do I have enough information? While that's a question that tugs on people's minds as they grapple with all sorts of decisions, it may be most persistent, and most significant, to doctors determining how best to treat their patients. The irony, of course, is that there's a lot more healthcare information available than ever gets used by providers.

Geographic Medicare costs disparities have more to do with health differences across communities than with inefficient care delivery, according to a new study from the Center for Studying Health System Change.

A new study, funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, suggests that follow-up calls to diabetes patients using interactive voice recognition technology could show promise in identifying safety triggers.

The California eHealth Quality program is offering $1 million in grants for physicians, clinics and hospitals in rural California to add health information exchange technologies and meet federal meaningful use standards.

After 25 years, virtual critical care is getting a closer look. And the timing could hardly be better, some say. The need for more intensive care beds is acute. The cost of caring for critically ill patients has never been higher. Intensivists are in short supply and only getting scarcer as the population gets older. Tele-ICU might be just the thing to help alleviate those issues.

The time is right for tele-ICU. The need for more intensive-care beds is acute. The cost of caring for critically ill patients has never been higher. Intensivists are in short supply, and only getting scarcer as the population gets older.

A new mobile health application that enables individuals to manage their families' health through customized prevention data has been pronounced the grand prize winner of the Department of Health and Human Services' Healthfinder.gov Mobile App Challenge.