Bernie Monegain
Nuance Communications, Inc. has signed an agreement to acquire Boston-based eScription, a medical transcription technology company. The deal, which is expected to close in Nuance's fiscal third quarte...
The United Health Foundation and drug manufacturer Pfizer have each awarded $50,000 unrestricted grants to the American College of Physicians. ACP officials say they will use the money to develop phys...
It's not just about information technology or the cost of delivering care, but those two factors play a role in a complex formula that technology company Thompson Healthcare uses to measure the top 10...
Five leading physician organizations have launched an e-prescribing push called "Get Connected" that aims at reducing billions of dollars in phone bills. T...
A six-month government investigation has led to charges that Ingenix operates a defective and manipulated database that is used by most major health insurance companies to set reimbursement rates....
Empire Blue BlueCross BlueShield is teaming up with Consumer Health Services to operate retail healthcare clinics, with the goal of providing health plan members with better access to non-emergency ca...
THERE ARE MORE than 23,000 independent pharmacies, and 75,000 pharmacists in the United States. In 2006, after five years of stability, 1,152 pharmacies, about 5 percent of the nation’s ph...
FORMER SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE Newt Gingrich and Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) have added their voices to the call for electronic prescribing. Kerry is among the sponsors of bipartisan legislation...
Insurer UnitedHealthcare and athenahealth, which provides Web-based business services for physician practices, are working together to expand the two companies' real-time claim adjudication capa...