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Diversified Service Options (DSO), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida Inc. and the holding company for First Coast Service Options (FCSO), has reached an agreement to acquire Highmark Medicare Services (HMS), a subsidiary of Pittsburgh-based Highmark Inc.
At the close of the third annual mHealth Summit, held Dec. 5-7 in Washington, D.C., keynote speakers highlighted the vast impact mobile phones and other mobile devices are having -- and will continue to have -- on healthcare delivery in the United States and worldwide.
Recent successes in creating payer-provider partnerships show some of the steps payers and providers can take in order to create effective collaborations.
On Wednesday, corporate powerhouses GE and Microsoft announced they will launch a 50-50 joint venture in early 2012 that leverages the platform experience of Microsoft and GE's core healthcare competencies in clinical applications, with the goal of providing real time data to improve patient experience and clinical outcomes.
Don Berwick, who left his job last week as head of the Medicare and Medicaid programs after sustained opposition from Senate Republicans who accused him of supporting rationing, struck back Thursday with a blistering attack on his critics.
The Medicare and Medicaid electronic health record program has paid physicians and hospitals nearly $2 billion in incentive payments as of the end of November, surpassing what federal health officials anticipated.
A joint venture announced by GE and Microsoft on Wednesday, will leverage the platform experience of Microsoft and GE's core healthcare competencies in clinical applications, with the goal of providing real time data to improve patient experience and clinical outcomes.
It's a great time to be an mHealth entrepreneur, experts said at Tuesday's Mobile Health Venture Fair, presented by mHIMSS, at the mHealth Summit in Washington, DC.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a final rule Monday for the release and use of Medicare claims data to qualified entities to measure the performance of Medicare providers under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Aetna on Tuesday announced results of a collaborative relationship with Connecticut-based primary care organization ProHealth Physicians, which since 2007 has made strides using information technology to improve quality of care and lower costs.