Healthcare Finance Staff

IDC Health Insights announced Tuesday the launch of a new research advisory service that examines the evolving connected health market.

Anthem Blue Cross has announced the launch of a new website in California designed to provide reliable, up-to-the-minute information to women about health issues specific to them.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is weighing what quality measures to use for a website it is developing to help consumers compare physicians, an offering that is required under the health reform law enacted earlier this year.

Paul Kacik is Managing Director, McGladrey Capital Markets, Costa Mesa, Calif.

David G. Daniel, Chief executive officer, Lakeland Surgical & Diagnostic Center, Lakeland Fla.

One of the largest recent security breaches of personal health information (PHI), involving 280,000 individuals, is on the surface a "pretty low-risk scenario," says one privacy expert.

Forty-nine percent of payers questioned believe that Value-Based Insurance Design is the most effective way to improve the performance of Disease Management (DM) and Wellness programs. This, according to a late summer poll  conducted by the Gantry Group LLC in conjunction with Healthcare Payer News.

The use of social networking in healthcare is fostering greater online collaboration that can lead to improved health outcomes and drive down costs, according to a new report from the Healthcare Performance Management (HPM) Institute.

HealthPartners, the nation's largest consumer-governed, nonprofit healthcare organization, has launched virtuwell.

Aided by its electronic health record system, Kaiser Permanente of Georgia has the highest breast cancer-screening rate for eligible women ages 42 to 69 among the health plans reporting to the National Committee on Quality Assurance (NCQA).