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Besides the obviously heavy toll that preventable post-surgery deaths take on patients and their families, the mistakes also have a high cost to insurers and employers.

The federal government began distributing more than 56,000 bonus checks to doctors and other health-care professionals who participated in the Medicare Physician Quality Reporting Initiative.

Only one in four Americans expect their finaces to improve in the next six months.

The IRS has upped its deduction allowance for business travel to 58.5 cents per mile.

Almost four of five respondents to a survey say that health care will be one of the top three issues that will influence their votes in Novemeber's presidential election.

Foreclosure filings were up 53 percent in June compared with a year ago, with the highest rates in Arizona, California and Nevada.

Drug company sales reps are being discouraged from leaving small gifts such as coffee mugs and golf balls at doctors' offices, according to a new marketing code adopted by PhRMA.

Seven New Jersey hospitals have closed in the last 18 months. The state also plans to trim $111 million in hospital funds from its 2009 budget.

The House and Senate overrode President Bush's veto of legislation that protects doctors from a cut in Medicare reimbursement rates.

The anemic internecine squabbles that dominated so much of the primaries have given way to a full-blown healthcare policy debate.

The Google PHR that debuted in May connects to an impressive list of healthcare organizations. But the rival PHR from Microsoft has landed a big fish called Kaiser Permanente.

Only four percent of physicians use a fully functional EHR that satisfies federally promoted certification requirements, while another 14 percent have basic systems.

If you want to better understand why less than 20 percent of doctors have implemented EHRs, visit the website of a vendor called Extormity, dedicated to offering "highly proprietary, difficult to customize and prohibitively expensive" software.

A company told its employees they could use contributions to their 401(k) plan to pay for long-term-care insurance premiums. The IRS said this wouldn't work.

For the first time in history, more than half of insured Americans are taking prescription drugs for a chronic health problem.

Workers who are over 50 and don't expect to receive employer-provided healthcare benefits in retirement are more likely to choose the coverage rather than retire.

A majority of physicians favor a single-payer healthcare system. But if you work in a large medical group, chances are your employer doesn't think too highly of the idea.

When the wealthy start plowing money into the stock market, maybe it's time for everyone else to take notice.

Baffled by look-alike terms such as electronic health record, electronic medical record, and personal health record? A $500,000 federal study tries to clear things up.

Here's one more reason why the feds are pushing for a nationwide health information network--the ability to scour millions of electronic records and catch unexpected drug side effects as soon as possible.

A new study from the AC Group identifies seven EHR vendors that give you the most digital bang for your buck.

EHRs can be as specialized as the doctors who use them. That's why the CCHIT will begin putting its stamp of approval on programs geared toward child health and cardiovascular disease.

Your choice of EHRs is slowly narrowing down as the number of vendors shrinks. That makes shopping easier.

The author built up her practice and became a local celebrity by writing a newspaper column.

Hospitals have a federal green light to help you pay for an EHR, but one little restriction could limit the number of programs eligible for a discount.

The IRS warns of a rash of e-mail and telephone scams whose aim is to latch onto a taxpayer's personal and financial data.

After several narrow escapes, the author is eager to share his hard-won lessons with others.

When my patient died needlessly, part of me died, too.