Healthcare Finance Staff
Commentary from Stephen W. Bernstein, partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery and is head of the firm’s Health Industry Advisory Practice Group.
Commentary from John Casillas, senior vice president of the HIMSS Medical Banking Project
Several major health insurers are part of a coalition that is promoting texting as a way to keep expectant women, new moms and their babies healthy.
The Health IT Summit for Government Leaders in Washington, D.C. launched the new program that sends free health information directly to expectant and new moms' mobile phones last month. Officials are touting the text4baby program as the first free mobile health service in the country, with participants paying nothing to send or receive messages.
James Cameron's sci-fi movie Avatar centers on a Marine who, through a nifty bit of futuristic technology, is able to slip into a virtual body and explore an extraterrestrial world.
Like everywhere, Detroit has been hit hard by this recession – only much, much worse.
So when Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan started investigating ways to cut costs, they were wary about pursuing some of the options that might have realized the most savings.
In an unprecedented partnership between an insurance company and an online social network, Aetna has teamed with OneRecovery.com, a Web site that serves as an Internet community for people recovering from alcohol, drug abuse, and eating disorders, connecting them with each other and with healthcare professionals.
Like everywhere, Detroit has been hit hard by this recession - only much, much worse.
In a development that was compared for its convenience and usefulness to banks' establishment of ATM networks, NaviNet, the country's largest real-time healthcare communications network, announced Thursday it would partner with ma
Physicians taking part in a two-year medical home pilot program will soon have access to new technology designed to help them identify patient care opportunities.
Four months after the switch to a new benefits administrator caused a massive claims backlog, the situation for Maryland mental health providers appears to be on the upswing. Even so, more repairs have to be made to the system before things can return to normal, state officials say.
A published report in late December highlighted the difficulties that arose when the state's mental health department replaced its old contractor, APS Healthcare, with Norfolk, Va.-based ValueOptions. A projected $5 million savings prompted the switch.