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Payers are reporting triple- and quadruple-digit increases in Web-based transactions during 2003. The trend seems to be industry-wide: According to the most recent payer Web site survey conducted by C...
Direct payer-to-provider connectivity is on the rise among even smaller providers, but analysts say that clearinghouses will not be going away anytime soon.The latest example of...
Kaiser Hawaii readies to go paperlessKaiser Permanente expects its outpatient clinics in Hawaii will save the HMO $10 million by switching to electron...
Experience with the Department of Defense, Veterans Administration and other government agencies is suddenly paying off for healthcare IT firms.In recent months, vendors have di...
Senior technologist Ken Knotts admits that as far as vertical markets go, healthcare wasn't at the top of ClearCube's list when the company began marketing its desktop blade technology in 2000....
Richard Fiddleman of Mitretek Systems is astounded that the nation's medical device recall and alert system has been ignored by policy-makers and healthcare IT vendors alike.Two...
Lawson officials say they don't differentiate themselves from the competition on features and functionality, but instead on outcomes and customer satisfaction. To back up that claim, the St. Paul, Min...
Emergisoft's CEO and chairman Ash R. Huzenlaub says moving from a public to private company will help return its focus on products and customers. "It's better to be a good priva...
Consulting firm partners with software makersHealthcare consulting firm Beacon Partners, based in Norwood, Mass., has teamed up with two other Massachusetts...
When it comes to mobile clinical and knowledge management systems, vendors and users say the true value is in retrieving reliable information quickly - whether from the patient'...