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Health Net of Arizona, Inc., a subsidiary of Health Net, Inc., has agreed to a mutli-year contract with Catholic Healthcare West to bolster provider networks in the Phoenix metropolitan area.

According to Bridges to Excellence, a national effort to recognize and reward high-performing physicians, pay-for-performance programs garner greater participation when the rewards are higher.

TELUS, a Canadian telecommunications company, has signed an agreement with the Microsoft Corp. to host and operate the HealthVault platform to provide e-health services in Canada.

A new GE project dubbed "healthymagination" will put $3 billion over six years into research and development to launch at least 100 innovations aimed at providing better healthcare while cutting costs.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told members of the House Ways and Means Committee Wednesday that health reform is not contingent merely upon health IT adoption, but on health IT interoperability.

Continued adoption of healthcare information technology is critical to healthcare reform, a spokesman for the nation's top corporations told the Senate Finance Committee Tuesday.

Emdeon, a Nashville-based provider of revenue and payment cycle solutions is targeting the billions of dollars lost each year in healthcare fraud by acquiring The Sentinel Group, a developer of data analytics solutions and technology designed to ferret out healthcare fraud and abuses

Emergency departments across the country are feeling the brunt of the economic downturn, with a spike in the number of acute cases and uninsured patients.

Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and responsible for leading healthcare reform efforts, said Monday that health IT will be key in containing costs to pay for reform.

The ECRI Institute, a nonprofit research firm based in Plymouth Meeting, Penn., has released its top 10 list of health technologies for hospital c-suite executives for 2009.