In a report published in the policy journal Health Affairs, the actuaries examine a broad range of factors pushing healthcare spending down and up from now through 2023. They conclude that 2013 health spending growth should have remained slow at 3.6 percent. Starting in 2014, however, the pace of growth begins to pick up again as the economic recovery strengthens, more people acquire insurance under the Affordable Care Act’s coverage expansions and the baby boomer generation drives an overall aging of the population.

WASHINGTON, DC, September 5, 2014—The Data Quality Campaign joins a growing global effort among government, corporate, non-profit, and academic sectors to promote online safety awareness.

BOSTON--Best Doctors, Inc., the global health company that brings together the best minds in medicine to help people get the right diagnosis and treatment plan, today announced that it has acquired Rise Health, a leading population health management company.

Philadelphia, PA, September 04, 2014 -- Exciting new technological advances are helping those in the pharmaceutical industry make better strategic decisions for growth and clinical resource requirements.

Facebook surveys are a cost-effective and feasible way to estimate local variation in human papillomavirus vaccine uptake, according to a study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.

The Pennsylvania Insurance Department has posted the final transition plan for consumers as the contract between rivals Highmark and UPMC comes to an end on Dec. 31, 2014.

In a report issued this week, the PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Health Research Institute concludes that the patchwork Medicaid expansion the courts allowed under the Affordable Care Act has created health system “haves and have nots.”

Hospital administrators, emergency physicians, nurse managers and infection control practitioners increasingly view infection control and surveillance software systems as “must-haves” for 2015, according to a recent report from Black Book Rankings.