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With demand surging for computerized medical records, at least a dozen companies are selling electronic systems that can help hospitals and large medical groups avoid dangerous errors. Analysts say health [...]

A relic from the medical past -- the house call -- is returning to favor as part of some hospitals' palliative care programs, which are sending teams of physicians, nurses, [...]

Within days after the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences shocked policy makers in late 1999 by reporting that mistakes in hospitals were killing tens of thousands [...]

Whether they have chronic ailments like diabetes or just want to watch their weight, Americans are increasingly tracking their health using smartphone applications and other devices that collect personal data [...]

The case for electronic medical records is compelling: They can make health care more efficient and less expensive, and improve the quality of care by making patients' medical history easily [...]

GRACE, an 81-year-old widow in Colorado, lost her life savings recently to identity thieves who had stolen her personal and financial information. She has hard-earned advice for anyone who gets [...]

Public health departments around the country have long scrutinized data from local hospitals for indications that diseases like influenza, tuberculosis, AIDS, syphilis and asthma might be on the rise, and [...]

With smartphones changing the culture in so many ways, more and more young people are using their mobile devices to keep track of their health, and the trend is not [...]

VERONA, Wis. THE push to move the nation from paper to electronic health records is serious business. That's why a first look at the campus of Epic Systems comes as [...]

Under heavy pressure from government regulators and insurance companies, more and more physicians across the country are learning to think like entrepreneurs. As recently as the late 1990s, there were [...]

The debate over the effects of the federal health care law on employer-provided insurance has been intensifying in recent weeks, with controversial polls and consultants contradicting one another about whether [...]

Federal health officials call it the Wall of Shame. It's a government Web page that lists nearly 300 hospitals, doctors and insurance companies that have reported significant breaches of medical [...]

Dr. Richard J. Hodes presides over the nation's prime source of grants for studies of aging at a worrisome time for researchers. Just when the cohort of elderly Americans is [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED Almost two years ago, President Obama pledged $19 billion in stimulus incentives to help convert the nation's doctors and hospitals to using a paperless system of electronic health [...]

As an aging population threatens to overwhelm the nation's hospitals and doctors, thousands of seriously ill patients are relying on computerized health trackers to help keep them safe at home. [...]

The health needs of tens of millions of aging baby boomers threaten to overwhelm the nation's hospitals and caregivers within a decade or two, but the geriatric tidal wave does [...]

With a nudge from the new health care law and pressure from Medicare, hospitals, doctors and nurses are struggling to prepare for explosive growth in the numbers of high-risk elderly [...]

ONE day last summer, Charlie Martin felt a sharp pain in his lower back. But he couldn't jump into his car and rush to the doctor's office or the emergency [...]

TWO financial advisers regaled Marilyn and Paul Johnson a few years ago with free lunches and dinners at local country clubs and a celebrity chef's restaurant in Kenosha, Wis., 40 [...]

In the desperate days soon after the earthquake in Haiti last month, foreign medical volunteers relied on improvised, low-tech devices for consultations and coordination. But American doctors are switching to [...]

In the 1950s, children with cystic fibrosis usually died before they reached kindergarten age, their airways choked with mucus by a genetic disorder that disrupts their ability to clear infections [...]

The Senate Finance Committee has quietly recommended that the millions of elderly Americans who buy so-called Medigap insurance plans be charged new co-payments for doctors' visits starting in 2015. Consumer [...]

PEOPLE over 65 should buy a Medigap policy, consumer advocates say, but picking a Medigap plan can be difficult, and at least one important health care bill heading for a [...]

Health care may be a costly drag on the economy, but it's still a great place to find a job. Midcareer managers and other workers have been migrating to health [...]

MORE than 10 years after she tried without success to have a baby, Marcy Campbell Krinsk is still receiving painful reminders in her mail. The ads and promotions started after [...]

Wal-Mart's medical clinics are coming out of rehab. Early last year, the company spoke of having 400 walk-in clinics by 2010. But later in 2008, that plan went into reverse. [...]

As walk-in clinics at stores like CVS and Wal-Mart offer convenient alternatives to doctors' offices and hospital emergency rooms, some hospitals are fighting back -- with walk-in clinics at some [...]

In Washington, the Obama administration is promising to spend billions to make health care more efficient, but Jennifer Brull, a family doctor in rural Kansas, is already a step or [...]

Nina Zagat, the queen of eat-and-tell restaurant guides, is invading a new and even trickier reviewing niche: doctors. The ubiquitous Zagat guides are known for an assortment of mostly leisure-related [...]

It's the annual ''open enrollment'' season in corporate America, when employees choose their medical plans for the coming year. But this time, even if they are fortunate enough to have [...]

JACKSON, Mich. IN this factory town in south-central Michigan, hard hit by the decline of the auto industry and home to a population whose health grimly lags well below national [...]

IN the last two years, at least three states have included health improvement in new programs intended to make health insurance more affordable for small employers. In Rhode Island, 350 [...]

Cutting health costs by paying doctors more? That is the premise of experiments under way by federal and state government agencies and many insurers around the country. The idea is [...]

The economic slowdown has swelled the ranks of people without health insurance. But now it is also threatening millions of people who have insurance but find that the coverage is [...]

Employers and patients in corporate health plans are not the only ones affected by the soaring prices of specialty drugs. Enrollees in Medicare drug plans are also feeling the pressure. [...]

Doctors treating children with a rare and severe form of epilepsy were stunned by the news. A crucial drug, H.P. Acthar Gel, that had been selling for $1,600 a vial [...]

In step toward personalized online medical information, Aetna plans to announce Wednesday a new service that draws upon a patient's own medical history to help answer questions about symptoms and [...]

Shares of WellPoint, one of the nation's largest health insurers, plummeted more than 16 percent in after-hours trading Monday after the company lowered its profit forecast, citing higher medical costs [...]

Moving to upgrade its walk-in medical clinic business, Wal-Mart is set to announce on Thursday plans for several hundred new clinics at its stores, using a standardized format and jointly […]

CheckUps, a start-up operator of walk-in medical clinics, has shut down 23 of the clinics operating in Wal-Mart stores in Florida and three other Southern states. CheckUps, based in New […]

The small-business lobbying group that had a big role in derailing Hillary Rodham Clinton's effort to overhaul health care in the early 1990s has staked out its position for the […]

With the commercial health insurance business in the doldrums, UnitedHealth, the nation's biggest medical insurer, and Humana, the No. 4 player, have bet heavily on the federal Medicare program. Their […]

Seeing low fees for family doctors as a weak link in the nation's health care system, some big employers and health insurers are seeking new ways to pay doctors to […]

Corporate America has made big strides toward the smoke-free workplace. Its next goal: the smoke-free worker. Many businesses are seeking to reduce their medical bills by paying for programs to […]

Even though General Motors and the United Automobile Workers have just reached a major settlement aimed at easing the automaker's health care liability, the union's umbrella organization says the company's […]

The Mayo Clinic jumped into the national debate on improving health care yesterday, calling for every individual to have basic universal insurance as a step toward gradually replacing the current […]

The cost of employer-sponsored health insurance premiums has increased 6.1 percent this year, well ahead of wage trends and consumer price inflation, but below the 7.7 percent increase in 2006, […]