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Electronic health records and staffing shortages are on the minds of hospital executives, physicians and nurses, according to a recent poll conducted by healthcare technology company Picis.Pi...

In an effort to help members better manage their acute and chronic diseases, Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield will use a care management system from The TriZetto Group.The Little Rock-base...

RelayHealth, based in Atlanta, has announced that Regence, the largest health insurer in the Northwest/Intermountain region, will implement the company's ProPBM software to support the management of p...

Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey is considering converting to a for-profit company.The not-for-profit health service corporation filed an application for conversion with the state...

In a move that heralds sweeping change in how medical bills are coded, the Department of Health and Human Services has announced a proposed regulation to change the ICD-9 code sets with ICD-10 code se...

As part of a multi-year contract with San Ramon, Ca.-based Keane, Inc., The Johns Hopkins Hospital plans to implement a full admission, discharge and transfer solution and make upgrades to its back-en...

The Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC), an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, announced Friday the completion of its merger with MEDecision, a Wayne, pa.-based pro...

As information is digitized in healthcare, there's greater risk in the transmission and storage of confidential medical and financial information.To cover these risks, Premier Insurance Manag...

The Amerigroup Corporation, a Virginia Beach, Va.-based health insurer, will pay $225 million to settle fraud allegations against the Illinois Medicaid program.Amerigroup and its Illinois sub...

An electronic exchange specializing in healthcare and a provider of payment processing solutions and services say they are teaming up in efforts to speed the invoice-to-payment process for hospitals....