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A company offering Web-based billing management software for small physician practices is looking to boost business with a new infusion of cash.
CarePayment Technologies, Inc., a Portland, Ore.-based provider of financial and patient advocacy services for healthcare providers, has acquired San Francisco-based Vitality Financial, which provides hospital payment solutions to medical providers and patients.
In an effort to help financial institutions understand how the HITECH Act and HIPAA directly affects their operations, four industry trade groups recently banded together to release a white paper "Compliance Guidelines for Financial Institutions in the Healthcare Sector: HITECH and the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules."
Joining an ever-growing number of health plans looking to help their members access health information wherever they may roam, Highland has announced the launch of its Highmark Health@Hand iPhone application.
The app provides members with a host of features, including the ability to find the closest Highmark participating providers including hospitals, urgent care facilities, retail clinics and pharmacies.
In a deal that adds a host of services to its online benefits shopping, management and enrollment platform, Benefitfocus announced mid-August its acquisition of Benefit Informatics Inc., a benefit information management company specializing in data analytics, forecasting, financial analysis and data warehousing.
Hospitals are making progress on collecting and reporting healthcare-associated infection (HAI) data to a national network, according to a new survey by the Premier healthcare alliance.
Three in ten Americans reported they would use their cell or smart phone to track and monitor their personal health, and 40 percent would be willing to pay for a remote monitoring device that sends health information directly to their doctor, according to a survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers' Health Research Institute.
A 25-bed critical access hospital in northern Iowa has implemented a program offering below-market interest rate loans to help patients cover self-pay hospital expenses.
In a move designed to speed adoption of electronic health records in rural hospitals, UnitedHealth Group recently announced it will invest $10 million in California's Critical Access Hospitals to help them beef up their IT systems and infrastructure.
In a deal that will add comprehensive government program patient eligibility and enrollment services to its existing revenue cycle management suite, Emdeon has announced it will acquire Atlanta-based Chamberlin Edmonds & Associates, which serves more than 200 acute care facilities in 30 states.