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Phytel is looking to restore the power of proper communication to healthcare.

The glut of electronic medical records vendors on the market, all looking to grab a piece of the federal stimulus pie, isn’t lost on MedAppz.

TeleHealth Services is out to prove that the television is an important healthcare tool.

The University Health Alliance (UHA), the third-largest commercial health insurer in Hawaii, is rolling out a revenue cycle management solution to provide electronic connectivity for claims and electronic remittance advice (ERA) for its providers.

HealthNow New York, Inc., which does business as BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York and BlueShield of Northeastern New York, is implementing a Web-based portal strategy.

Health insurer Aetna, Inc., will provide 65,000 individuals with free credit monitoring for a year after its job application Web site was breached.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City has rolled out a healthcare management platform for its 880,000 members in greater Kansas City, northwest Missouri and eastern Kansas.

Minnesota is set to become the first state to require all healthcare providers to electronically submit insurance claims to health plans using a single set of data standards.

Health plans can contribute to healthcare reform by reorienting financial incentives for value over volume and reward high-value technology creation that reduces morbidity, mortality and total spending over a lifetime, said panelists at AHIP Institute 2009.

Electronic technology will soon be considered as fundamental to medicine as the stethoscope, according to National Coordinator for Health Information Technology David Blumenthal, MD.