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They're calling it a "friendly takeover," but SAP's announcement that it will buy rival IT firm Business Objects has some analysts scratching their heads. The two major players...
Ingenix, a healthcare IT company based in Eden Prairie, Minn. , yesterday released its fourth annual report on the "Top 200 Coding Hospitals in the U.S. " The report ranks hospitals by the completenes...
Seven companies that market private fee-for-service plans for Medicare have received permission from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to resume marketing the plans to beneficiaries....
The QuadraMed Corp. of Reston, Va. has announced that Midland Memorial Hospital in Midland, Texas has gone live enterprise-wide with QuadraMed's Revenue Cycle and Identity Management...
As the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services enters a new fiscal year, it's beginning to take a fresh look at the future implementation of ICD-10 codes. One step in that process...
President Bush today has delivered on his promise to veto Senate's $35 billion expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program - an expansion he feels is too close to universal, single-paye...
The timing couldn't be better. One day after U.S. Preventive Medicine announced its acquisition of Specialty Disease Management Services, Inc., the Milken Institute released...
Twenty percent of the addresses associated with the National Provider Identification numbers issued by the federal government this year are wrong, a new report contends. Some 19...
The QuadraMed Corporation has completed the acquisition of the Misys computerized patient record assets of Raliegh, N.C.-based Misys Healthcare at the purchase price...
Members of the Senate followed the House in passing bipartisan $35 billion legislation to reauthorize the State Children's Health Insurance Program at the end of last week. With President Bush plannin...