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Contributed by Jamie Cleverley Several months ago, I was in San Diego for a presentation on hospital pricing. One of the primary discussions involved California’s higher relativ...

Blue Cross of Northeastern Pennsylvania is licensing a service that will securely send members' health and healthcare finance information to electronic devices, including PDAs and cell phones....

A 2006 REPORT that indicates there are more emergencies than necessary in the nation’s emergency departments has hospitals looking to automation to clean up the process – and the bottom li...

DENISON, TX – Software applications often don’t achieve predicted results and sometimes frustrate users. That wasn’t the case at Texoma Medical Center. Its three...

Fair Isaac Corp. introduces new SCDM solution The Fair Isaac Corporation of Minneapolis has unveiled a new State Compliance Decision Manager solution, designed to help pharmaceuti...

WASHINGTON - Twenty-seven states will look for new ways to improve the efficiency, economy and quality of their Medicaid programs with help from $103 million in “transformation grants” awa...

OMAHA, NE – Alegent Health, a nine-hospital system in and around Omaha, Neb., is one of the first in the nation to provide consumers with accurate estimates of the cost of their care, factoring...

WASHINGTON – Hospitals are slowly showing interest in implementing electronic health records among physicians. In the five months since new provisions enabling technology don...

LAKESIDE, MI - Seeking efficiency, cost-effectiveness and improved communication with patients, physicians in a Michigan-based health system have been testing a Web portal for virtual office visits. &...

Navicure, a provider of automated, Web-based revenue cycle management (RCM) solutions for physician practices, has announced a new contract with the Methodist Medical Group of Peoria,...