Healthcare Finance Staff
Kaiser Permanente Southern California and Kaiser Permanente Northern California were the only health plans to earn four stars in the category Meeting National Standards of Care in the just-released HMO Quality Report from the California Office of the Patient Advocate.
Intelimedix, which develops business intelligence tools for healthcare payers, has expanded its Tru:Insights solution to include dental health tracking, reporting and cost recovery.
Nearly half a million patients in New York's Hudson Valley are now associated with a patient-centered medical home, created in part with the help of $1.5 million in incentives provided by six health plans.
PHILADELPHIA - Improving the availability, accuracy and delivery of information in an actionable way is at the heart of the myriad reforms impacting the healthcare industry today, according to an IDC Health Insights analyst.
The American Medical Association is calling on the business community to help it fight administrative waste in healthcare. A root cause of the $200 billion a year problem, says AMA President Cecil B. Wilson, MD, is lack of standardization.
The Indiana Health Information Exchange (IHIE) -- the largest HIE in the nation -- announced Wednesday that enrollment in its Quality Health First Program has reached 1,500 physicians in 50 communities, improving care for more than one million patients throughout Indiana.
The Health Information Management Systems Society's (HIMSS) Annual Conference and Exhibition, HIMSS11, has come and gone, but attendees of the pre-conference HIE Symposium returned home with numerous lessons learned and best practices presented by veterans in the health information exchange field.
Pitney Bowes is embracing the cloud, and healthcare could soon see the benefits.
Aetna members in most fully insured medical plans in Texas and Florida now have the option of using a new service from TelaDoc to access non-urgent care over the phone.
As the Oct. 1, 2013, deadline for ICD-10 implementation bears down, HIMSS11 attendees were assured Tuesday that there's no need to panic.