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Emdeon, a Nashville-based provider of revenue and payment cycle solutions is targeting the billions of dollars lost each year in healthcare fraud by acquiring The Sentinel Group, a developer of data analytics solutions and technology designed to ferret out healthcare fraud and abuses
Emergency departments across the country are feeling the brunt of the economic downturn, with a spike in the number of acute cases and uninsured patients.
Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and responsible for leading healthcare reform efforts, said Monday that health IT will be key in containing costs to pay for reform.
The ECRI Institute, a nonprofit research firm based in Plymouth Meeting, Penn., has released its top 10 list of health technologies for hospital c-suite executives for 2009.
Sun Microsystems' open-source software is one of the key components of the NHIN-Connect, the gateway that has enabled multiple federal agencies and private-public organizations to communicate across platforms.
Clinical research that used to take months now takes minutes at Montefiore Medical Center in New York, thanks to new software that accesses data in electronic medical records.
Premera Blue Cross, a non-profit, independent, regional health plan based in western Washington, is rolling out an online system to its physician practices throughout Washington and Alaska during the first half of 2009 to help them meet cost transparency needs.
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, which has a membership of 1,300 CIOs across the country, weighed in last week on its definition of "meaningful use" for healthcare information technology.
The Eclipsys Corporation has launched an automated toolkit to help hospital limit the spread of the H1N1 influenza in waiting areas.
Apollo, a Falls Church, Va.-based developer of clinical multimedia solutions, has released Apollo Enterprise Patient Media Manager (EPMM), a so called “device-agnostic” software platform that’s designed to collect distributed patient media into one unified record.