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THE GOOGLE PHONE SAGA has turned into an interesting news story. In reading it, I suddenly began wondering if there was a lesson to be found there for the healthcare industry. OK, maybe it’s...

PHOENIX, AZ – Enrollment in Evercare’s Medicare Advantage Special Needs Plan, or SNP, for Maricopa County residents with Alzheimer’s and related dementia is underway amid provider en...

Claim-Remedi Services, Inc, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Los Angeles-based Cash Technologies, Inc., has entered into a two-year agreement with Health Payment Systems, Inc. to market Claim-Remed...

WASHINGTON - As Congress takes its Thanksgiving recess, a massive spending package that would earmark billions of dollars for healthcare hangs in limbo. Compromise couldn't...

FRAMINGHAM, MA - Although top U.S. healthcare payers reported pricing transparency initiatives in 2007, they face challenges in 2008 that will limit information technology investments in this area....

WASHINGTON - Despite Congress' efforts to compromise on legislation to provide health insurance for 10 million poor children, President Bush's stance on the State Children's Health Insurance Program h...

CHICAGO – Despite broad-based efforts to encourage physicians to use health information technology and electronic prescribing, penetration among physicians of IT remains woeful, and the chief ba...

Health plans need to do more to inform their members on a number of healthcare topics and do a better job alerting patients and doctors on needed cancer screenings, a new national survey concludes....

CHICAGO - The Federal Communications Commission is joining the healthcare networking fray, announcing a plan today to create a pilot program to deploy broadband health networks. Annou...

BOSTON - Provider-to-provider telehealth technologies could save healthcare as much as $4.28 billion year, new research shows. The Center for Information T...