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Doug Rempfer is the vice president of client operations with AmkaiSolutions, an information management solutions company focused on outpatient surgery providers. He also serves in this role for Surgical Information Systems.

*This article has been updated since the original posting for clarity.Every individual wants to be healthy, fit and fine. No one wants to fall ill.

The United States Supreme Court has ruled the recess appointments President Barack Obama made to the National Labor Relations Board in 2012 were unconstitutional, effectively invalidating hundreds of decisions made by those board members.

Here are eight statistics on independent physicians who are considering selling their practices and some of the pressures they face, according to CareCloud's "Practice Profitability Index" report.

Healthcare reform and the aging population are not the only forces changing the healthcare landscape: social and digital media are as well, according to Kendra Simpson, vice president of Social@Ogilvy.

Forty-seven percent of patients have never talked with their healthcare professional about antibiotic resistance, according to WebMD/Medscape's Antibiotics Survey.

ChoiceSpine received U.S. Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance for the BLACKBIRD Posterior Cervical Spinal System.

Here are the states with the highest EHR adoption rate, according to an infographic produced by the University of California, Berkeley School of Information.

Healthcare spending growth hit an all-time low of 3.6 percent for 2011 and remained slow at an annual rate of 3.7 percent in 2012 and 4 percent during the first 11 months of 2013, according to the Altarum Institute's Center for Sustainable…

Physicians who earn an MBA in healthcare management in addition to their medical degree report that their dual training has provided such benefits as career acceleration, professional flexibility, and credibility in multidisciplinary domains.