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Hospitalization predictions worth $3M to managed care firm

The Heritage Provider Network, a managed care company that contracts with several medical groups in southern California, is launching a contest to develop the best algorithm for predicting which Read more...

Health insurers try to 'humanize' themselves via Facebook, Twitter

Health insurance companies are starting to use social media to interact with consumers, according to a piece in American Medical News. Health plans' most common use of media such as Twitter, Facebook Read more...

Indiana AG sues WellPoint over timing of breach notifications

Indiana Attorney General Gregory Zoeller has sued Indianapolis-based WellPoint seeking $300,000 in civil penalties, saying that the nation's largest private health insurer waited too long to notify Read more...

Electronic claims submission could save $11B per year

Right now, 25 percent of physician claims are submitted on paper each year. That's a whopping 3 billion claims still being handled the old-fashioned way. The vast majority of those claims are being Read more...

WellPoint deal lets health plan create national HIE

Health plan giant WellPoint announced today that it was striking a deal with health plan portal Availity to create what it's describing as a "multi-payer portal," or HIE. WellPoint is making an Read more...

GA Blue plan sends benefit letters to wrong addresses

Last week, Georgia's largest health insurer concluded that it sent about 202,000 benefits letters containing personal and health information to the wrong addresses, courtesy of a systems error. Blue Read more...

Coalition wants e-prescribing included in Medicare reform

A coalition of 44 healthcare industry organizations have come together to ask Congress to to include e-prescribing mandates in Medicare reform legislation. The members want legislators to adopt the Read more...

SPOTLIGHT: WellPoint offers cellphone-accessible provider directory

Wondering if your patients will benefit from mobile services? Maybe you'll want to follow WellPoint's lead. The insurer has rolled out a new provider directory for its beneficiaries designed Read more...

WellPoint data may have been compromised

While it's not clear what happened, it looks as though clinical and personal data on 130,000-odd WellPoint beneficiaries may have been accessed through the web. WellPoint has announced that during Read more...

Press Releases

WellPoint's Andrew J. Lang Named a Computerworld PREMIER 100 IT Leader

INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- WellPoint, Inc. announced that Andrew J. Lang has been named a Computerworld 2012 Premier 100 IT Leader. The 2012 Premier 100 IT Leaders Awards spotlights Read more >>

Leading Health Plans Perform Well for First Half of 2011

KENNEBUNK, Maine--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- For the first half of 2011 top health plans saw a combined net increase of over 2 million members from December 2010. While aggregated fully-insured business Read more >>

Zix Corporation Announces Share Repurchase Program

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Zix Corporation (ZixCorp), (Nasdaq: ZIXI), the leader in email encryption services, announced that its board of directors approved today a share repurchase program that Read more >>

Zix Corporation to Present at Houlihan Lokey Conference on Oct. 27

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Zix Corporation (ZixCorp), (Nasdaq: ZIXI), the leader in email encryption services, announces that Rick Spurr, ZixCorp’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, will present Read more >>

Recondo Technology Announces Sheila Schweitzer Has Joined the Recondo Board of Directors

GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo., Oct. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Recondo Technology, a leading provider of revenue cycle solutions for the healthcare industry, announced today that Sheila Schweitzer, a leader Read more >>