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IBM is teaming with WellPoint to develop the first commercial applications of its Watson technology, with an eye toward bringing evidence-based information to care providers.
For a lot of seniors, trying to figure out their finances to determine if or for how long they can stay in a senior living community is a daunting task. CRL Senior Living Communities, a company with about a dozen independent and assisted living facilities in Illinois and Wisconsin, began offering financial concierge services to its residents and potential residents last spring. It is already showing a positive return on investment.
CRL’s financial concierge service has generated “probably an excess of $1 million in topline revenue” said the company’s president, Ari Weinberger, and he expects the business to grow.
There has been much heated national discussion surrounding credit rating agencies since Standard & Poor’s downgraded the sovereign credit rating of the United States.
Health insurer WellPoint announced today that it has reached an agreement with IBM to develop the first commercial applications of the IBM Watson technology aimed at providing evidence-based information to providers to improve patient care and delivery.
A survey of practicing nurses found that they currently feel secure about their jobs but pressures due to the rough economy have impacted their retirement plans.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Friday the availability of approximately $700 million to help build, expand and improve community health centers across the United States.
The total cost for children’s hospital stays in 2009 was $33.6 billion, or about 9 percent of overall hospital costs, according to a new report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
At the beginning of August, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued its final rule updating Medicare inpatient payment policies and rates for hospitals in fiscal year 2012, and some observers were surprised by the results.
Ten New Hampshire hospitals have filed a federal lawsuit against the state of New Hampshire, seeking to enjoin the state from enacting its fiscal 2012-13 budget.