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Intuit Inc., the Mountain View, Calif.-based provider of financial management solutions for small and mid-sized businesses, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Medfusion, of Cary, N.C., which makes front-office and back-office software designed to improve patient-to-provider communications.

Makers of H1N1 vaccines reported sales of $3.3 billion in 2009, according to a new report.

ZirMed is celebrating Earth Day with a new product designed to reduce paper billing costs for providers – and make the process easier for patients.

Sharps Compliance has launched a program designed to take medical waste out of the landfill and re-use it in the construction industry.

Hospitals that don’t automate their supply chains stand to waste 30 to 40 percent of their budget on overstocked or out-of-date supplies or emergency orders for understocked items.

For the second time in the past year, Emdeon is bolstering its revenue cycle management platform with technology designed to detect and eliminate fraud.

The recently passed health reform legislation includes payment changes for insurance companies that seem intended to move the industry from risk avoidance to increased cost management.

An ongoing battle between state officials and health insurers over proposed rate hikes is putting Massachusetts front and center in the debate over controlling healthcare costs.

Doctors are skeptical about the future of medicine, according to a survey conducted by athenahealth, a provider of Web-based practice management tools, and Sermo, an online community for physicians.

Since the passage in March of the healthcare reform law, at least 14 states have filed lawsuits against the federal government claiming aspects of the law are unconstitutional.