Financial/Revenue Cycle Management
Health plans and insurers, who have endured the brunt of criticism for soaring healthcare costs, are bracing for change as the nation moves toward reform.
Intuit Inc., the Mountain View, Calif.-based provider of financial management solutions for small and mid-sized businesses, will acquire Medfusion, of Cary, N.C., which makes front-office and back-office software designed to improve patient-to-provider communications. The deal is valued at about $91 million.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield-initiated anti-fraud investigations have recovered or saved more than $510 million in 2009, according to the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, which credits the success in part to technology dedicated to anti-fraud efforts.
Health insurers, on average, are paying physicians seven days faster and denying 12 to 18 percent fewer claims than last year, according to the fifth annual PayerView Rankings athenahealth and Physicians Practice released Wednesday. The findings show the potential of increased automation and transparency to reduce administrative costs and increase...
The White House has begun developing a strategy for securing online transactions and stemming identity fraud that pays particular heed to the importance of building a trusted arena for electronic healthcare transactions.
A new report based on the European healthcare market shows providers adopting more business analytics solutions as a result of a decrease in patient visits from pay-for-performance programs.
Speaking in Boston Tuesday at the Healthcare Stimulus Exchange Roadshow, Vish Sankaran, director for the Federal Health Architecture Program, outlined his vision for the government's role in promoting broader healthcare IT adoption via the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN).
Lawson is adding integration to its applications, with the goal of moving its business intelligence solutions deeper into the healthcare landscape.
Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions attributes big jumps in its second quarter 2009 revenue and profit to the "stimulus" effect, and CEO Glen Tullman is predicting even better news in the year ahead.
AdvancedMD Software, provider of practice and revenue cycle management software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions, has acquired PracticeOne, EHR provider.
