IRVING, Texas, Sept. 3, 2014-- Lightbeam Health Solutions, LLC today announced it has joined the Greenway Health online Marketplace of value-added partners for users of Greenway's integrated Electronic Health Record (EHR) and practice management solutions.

It’s official, on September 1, Northwestern Memorial HealthCare, one of Chicago’s leading academic medical center-focused healthcare systems and Cadence Health, operator of two community hospitals and numerous outpatient centers west of the city, become one.

In an update to its April forecast, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said it now expects Medicare spending to be $49 billion less from 2015 to 2024 than it expected it to be back in April. It also predicted Medicaid spending would be $40 billion less than it thought it would be in its earlier report.

Healthcare organizations are showing a rising interest in population health analytics, but reimbursement remains cumbersome and developers have yet to build solutions that effectively meet market needs, Chilmark Research claims in a new report.

The National Institutes of Health has released the final genomic data sharing policy which promotes sharing, for research purposes, of large-scale human and non-human genomic data generated from NIH-funded research.

To address gaps in provider knowledge of health IT to improve medication management, a panel convened by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality delved into the latest efforts to improve patient safety with targeted inventions.

The humble primary care services are hot at healthcare organization leaders find that in a post-Affordable Care Act era, future market share hinges on having strong preventive and general care capabilities. The results of the 2014 Association of Staff Physician Recruiters member survey reflect this trend strongly.

The promise of millions of newly insured patients has yet to be realized even as other healthcare reform changes that push care into the less costly outpatient setting are impacting revenues and cash flow notes Moody’s Investor Service in its latest report on the not-for-profit hospital sector.