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Online healthcare price transparency tools trend upward
As healthcare costs continue to rise and fluctuate based on hospitals' location , price transparency efforts will continue to be important. That's what makes San Francisco-based health IT start-up
Fierce Q&A: WellPoint partners with providers to ensure smooth ICD-10 transition
When FierceHealthIT caught up with Ian Bonnet earlier this year, the vice president of business, IT strategy and execution leadership at Indianapolis-based WellPoint wasn't fazed by the Centers for
HITRUST moves to help healthcare fight cyber-crime
Healthcare organizations have a new partner in fighting cyber-attacks: The Health Information Trust Alliance has launched a Cybersecurity Incident Response and Coordination Center to share
Memorial Sloan-Kettering, IBM partner on latest Watson technology project
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) and IBM have agreed to work together to develop a clinical decision support tool using IBM Watson technology to help create individualized cancer
Q&A: WellPoint's Watson project gains momentum
IBM has always intended Watson--the natural language processor best known for beating out its puny human competitors on the game show Jeopardy!--to do more than answer trivia questions. And the
Verizon-WellPoint partnership enables virtual chats between patients, nurses
Verizon Wireless and WellPoint this week announced a partnership that will allow members affiliated with the insurance plan to virtually chat with nurse care managers via a 4G LTE mobile device. The
Quality incentives show mixed results for hospitals, payers
As the industry shifts toward rewarding quality and not quantity, healthcare leaders still wonder whether pay-for-performance (P4P) models will actually improve care and cut costs. According to a
Healthcare stocks poised for rebound after market fall
Healthcare stocks were battered during the recent market selloffs, but are poised for a significant rebound, report Reuters and the Associated Press. Hospital stocks such as HCA--which have lost more
ICD-10 fluency means provider, payer collaboration
The ICD-10 diagnostic code set is a fundamentally different language, which systems, people, and processes at both provider and payer organizations will need to speak fluently by Oct. 13, 2013, Ian
WellPoint ties hospital payment bumps to quality of care
Indianapolis-based WellPoint, Inc., the nation's largest health insurer, is tying annual payment increases to hospitals to new quality criteria. Reimbursement bumps to hospitals in 14 states where
