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By Healthcare Finance Staff | 10:52 am | March 30, 2010
The Regenstrief Institute, recognized as a healthcare IT leader, has been awarded a contract to help the Social Security Administration and Indiana healthcare providers make disability case determinations faster and better.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 05:00 pm | March 29, 2010
The Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare (CAQH), a nonprofit alliance of health plans that seeks to simplify administration for payers and providers and enable better care for patients, has announced a partnership with VeriSign, Inc., the Mountain View, Calif. network infrastructure company. The two of them will launch a pilot program that aims to demonstrate a secure data exchange that could be a model for national health IT interoperability.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 11:01 am | March 26, 2010
For all the excited talk about the potential for IT to transform the healthcare industry for the better, many doctors are skeptical about the future, according to a recent survey conducted by athenahealth, the provider of online practice manag
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 09:08 am | March 25, 2010
Colorado is one of six states that will receive federal matching funds for state planning activities necessary to implement the electronic health record incentive program established by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 10:44 am | March 24, 2010
The remote health management market (RHM) is the smallest, but fastest growing segment of the home health management (HHM) market, according to global strategy consulting firm, Scientia Advisors.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 10:25 am | March 23, 2010
Forty-eight upstate New York hospitals earned more than $22 million in quality improvement incentive payments from Excellus BlueCross BlueShield as part of the health insurer's Hospital Performance Incentive Program.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 11:00 am | March 19, 2010
The TriZetto Group and 3M Health Information Systems announced an agreement Friday that gives TriZetto certain exclusivity to include 3M's ICD-10 Code Translation Tool with several new services for payers under its TriZetto Advantage 10 Services.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 09:28 am | March 03, 2010
At the HIMSS10 Interoperability Showcase, the Federal Health Architecture (FHA) exhibited 40 kiosks of 23 scenarios involving 60 organizations, increasing its presence times eight.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 03:29 pm | February 26, 2010
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has announced $4.3 billion in financial relief to states through reductions in payments that offset the cost of prescription drug coverage for Medicare and Medicaid eligible patients.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 03:04 pm | February 26, 2010
Chrissy Yamada is chief financial officer at Evergreen Healthcare (Kirkland, Wash.)