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GARDEN CITY, NY – When Google announced plans in late February to collaborate with Ohio’s Cleveland Clinic on a pilot program to make medical records available online, the news didn’...

SCOTTSDALE, AZ – The Mayo Clinic is implementing an automated invoice processing system in hopes of ridding itself of the costs and errors associated with manual processing. The Ma...

WASHINGTON – California health plans paid $65 million in 2007 to California physician groups participating in their pay-for-performance programs, the Integrated Healthcare Association has report...

Amedisys, a home nursing company, has completed the acquisition of TLC Health Care Services, a provider of home nursing and hospice services. The $395 million deal, which closed We...

BOSTON – The announcement that Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts has decided against requiring physicians to implement electronic medical records to participate in its bonus program create...

HILLSBORO, OR – When Hillsboro Advanced Surgical Care implemented secure messaging in late January, the single-physician office eliminated faxing patient data to its medical billing service prov...

A new study has found that consumers are slow to adopt consumer-directed health plans (CDHPs), though supporters claim interest will grow. CDHPs are typically compri...

IF YOU LISTEN LONG ENOUGH, you’re bound to hear stories of consumers totally confounded by how things work in healthcare. This is one of those stories. It’s based on a colum...

EZ-CAP, managed.care.com form new partnership EZ-CAP, the flagship product of Longwood, Fla.-based MZI Healthcare, LLC, a provider of health plan administration software, has formed a...

ALBANY, NY – In mid-February, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced an industry-wide investigation involving health insurance companies and Ingenix, which Cuomo said has been providin...