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HealthNow New York, Inc., which does business as BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York and BlueShield of Northeastern New York, is implementing a Web-based portal strategy.
Health insurer Aetna, Inc., will provide 65,000 individuals with free credit monitoring for a year after its job application Web site was breached.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City has rolled out a healthcare management platform for its 880,000 members in greater Kansas City, northwest Missouri and eastern Kansas.
Minnesota is set to become the first state to require all healthcare providers to electronically submit insurance claims to health plans using a single set of data standards.
Health plans can contribute to healthcare reform by reorienting financial incentives for value over volume and reward high-value technology creation that reduces morbidity, mortality and total spending over a lifetime, said panelists at AHIP Institute 2009.
Electronic technology will soon be considered as fundamental to medicine as the stethoscope, according to National Coordinator for Health Information Technology David Blumenthal, MD.
The city of New York is positioned to become the nation's capital of healthcare information technology, according a new report released by the Center for an Urban Future.
First Lady Michelle Obama announced the release of $851 million in grants to community health centers on Monday.
Concerro, a San Diego-based developer of open-shift and workforce management software, is getting into the disaster-planning business.
The Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel is developing global standards to support “core research data element exchange.”