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The Mississippi Division of Medicaid and Shared Health have launched an electronic health record and electronic prescribing system for more than one half million Medicaid beneficiaries.
A survey of large employers found they are anticipating an 8.9 percent increase in the cost of health insurance next year, up from an average 7 percent this year. As a result, employers said they are planning to make changes to their 2011 healthcare benefit programs.
Maine healthcare providers launched their first official telehealth summit on Tuesday with a message to the rest of the country: The first state to see the sun rise each day also aims to be one of the leaders in this rapidly growing healthcare delivery philosophy.
Maine held its first official telehealth summit on Tuesday, and among the topics for discussion was the issue of reimbursing healthcare providers for telemedicine services rendered.
Hospitals differ in how they detect and treat drug-resistant staph infections, but most follow national guideline recommendations, according to researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
The ProMedica Health System, a 10-hospital health system based in Toledo, Ohio, has implemented a daily price auditing solution in its laboratory that has helped identify more than $8,000 in pricing errors.
The Ingenix buying spree marches on. In its third major acquisition in less than a month, the firm, which is owned by the UnitedHealth Group, is adding San Jose, Calif.-based Axolotl to the fold.
Overall U.S. healthcare prices remained relatively flat from June to July, rising only 0.3 percent, according to data from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Emdeon, Inc., a provider of healthcare revenue and payment cycle management solutions, has entered a strategic relationship with Noridian Mutual Insurance that's aimed at increasing Emdeon's penetration in the public payer sector.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has announced grant awards of $46 million for 45 States and the District of Columbia to help improve the oversight of proposed health insurance premium increases.