Eric Wicklund
A Georgia-based healthcare system is looking to two well-known healthcare IT companies to help improve its processing of medical claims and prepare for the conversion from ICD-9 codes sets to ICD-10.
GE Healthcare IT has announced the availability of its Meaningful Use-ready software release for Centricity Enterprise, the company's integrated clinical, financial and administrative software solution for hospitals.
Broadlane has expanded its cost management offerings to 34 products and divided them into six service lines. In addition, the Dallas-based company has renamed itself The Broadlane Group.
Health Dialog, a Boston-based provider of analytics and decision support, has launched a new program designed to help Medicare Advantage plans qualify for performance bonuses.
Several Michigan-based health plans are reducing administrative costs by communicating with customers and brokers on a Web platform designed by Covisint.
The Trizetto Group has moved its corporate headquarters from Newport Beach, Calif., to Greenwood Village, Colo. The move was made in part to accommodate new CEO Trace Devanny, the former president of the Cerner Corporation, who takes over for Jeff Margolis. Margolis, who founded the company, has become chairman of the firm.
HealthPort has spun off its healthcare consulting service into an independent company.
A three-year-old developer of vision screening kiosks is using a $1.2 million grant from the National Institute of Health to launch a more comprehensive self-service and wellness station.
Hospitals faced with the complexities of matching patients with payment plans often maintain a stable of several collection agencies and teams, some in-house and some outsourced. Financial managers are then forced to choose the right agency for each account, while also ensuring that the data is correct.
The key to improving the cost of healthcare lies in making healthcare cost-effective. And Roy Schoenberg thinks he has solved that riddle.