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GetWellNetwork, daisy team up to reward nursesGetWellNetwork, Inc., a Bethesda, Md.-based provider of interactive patient care solutions, is teaming up with the DAISY Foundation to help bo...

BUFFALO, NY – A holistic approach to consolidating patient access and accounting systems among its five hospitals has paid big dividends for Kaleida Health.The integrated delivery syste...

CMS announces demo for hospital-physician paymentThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services want to test an approach of bundling payment for both hospital and physician services. CMS...

SAN FRANCISCO – Helping providers maneuver their way through the intricacies of healthcare payments has always been one of the goals of RelayHealth. Now the McKesson subsidiary, which offers a p...

AUCKLAND, New Zealand – The land of Russell Crowe, Crowded House and kiwis is trying to attract Americans and Canadians seeking less expensive medical care.Medtral New Zealand, based in...

WASHINGTON – The American Medical Association is countering efforts calling for the increased regulation of specialty hospitals owned by physicians.In May, the hospital industry upped t...

HARTFORD, CT – Aetna is the first U.S. health plan to establish a policy of requiring all of its vendors to provide employees with health insurance by 2011.Aetna is working with its ven...

WHEN IS too much too much, or too little too little when it comes to government interference? That's a question on everyone's mind with the election and Republican vs Democrat solutions for the econom...

BEFORE CONSUMERS can make knowledgeable healthcare buying decisions, they need transparent comparative data on cost and quality. Meaningful quality data is difficult to identify and measure, but charg...

SAN FRANCISCO – Institute 2008, the annual June conference of America’s Health Insurance Plans, will highlight best practices and applications, putting health plans in the role of agents o...