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The Beth Israel Deaconess Physician Organization will roll out analytics software to help its doctors measure clinical performance. The goal is to reduce variations in care - capabilities essential to the Massachusetts-based organization's plans to operate successfully under anticipated state and national payment reform changes.
During the healthcare reform debates of 2009, there were angry confrontations that nothing in the legislation would address rising healthcare costs.
TRICARE, the health care program serving active duty service members, is gauging industry interest and capabilities for providing a Web-based electronic health record system for its military health system.
CIGNA has signed agreements to establish onsite healthcare clinics on American air bases in Kandahar and Bagram, Afghanistan.
CIGNA has signed agreements to establish onsite healthcare clinics on American air bases in Kandahar and Bagram, Afghanistan.
Microsoft will offer new turnkey technology to help states roll out their statewide health insurance exchanges by 2014. This will include exchanges, enrollment and eligibility technology, health-enabled business intelligence/analytics and case coordination.
Microsoft will offer new turnkey technology designed to help states quickly and efficiently roll out their statewide health insurance exchanges by 2014.
The Senate has passed legislation that would repeal a provision of the Affordable Care Act that requires small businesses, including physicians, to file an IRS form 1099 for each vendor purchase of $600 or more.
Tenet Healthcare and Aetna have signed a new multi-year agreement that will allow members of Aetna's commercial and Medicare Advantage health plans to continue receiving covered healthcare services from Tenet facilities nationwide.
The National Quality Forum has endorsed four potentially avoidable complication (PAC) measures created by the Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute. According to HCI3, reduction of PACs can improve care and decrease healthcare costs.