From the category archives:

Healthcare IT

Nashville Technology Council Presentation

Light in the Darkness: How Information Will Create Transparency in Healthcare
Presentation Transcript
Miriam Paramore
SVP Strategy and Government Affairs at Emdeon
August 26, 2010
Presented at “The Naked Hospital – A Provocative Look at Healthcare” a Nashville Technology Council super roundtable event., Miriam Paramore of Emdeon, mentions change:healthcare in reference to cost transparency in the healthcare industry.
http://www.slideshare.net/nashtechcouncil/light-in-the-darkness-how-information-will-create-transparency-in-healthcare

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Healthcare Costs, Transparency and Feeling Vindicated

Christopher Parks was the guest blogger on “For the Record” by Dan Prince, President of Catalyst Healthcare Research. Read his entry “Healthcare Costs, Transparency and Feeling Vindicated.“
http://www.catalysthealthcareresearch.com/learning-center/for-the-record/2010/08/17/healthcare-costs-transparency-and-feeling-vindicated/

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Change is on the Horizon

For three years now, change:healthcare has had the goal to help people save money on their healthcare expenses.  We want to help lots of people – as many as possible. We won’t say we’ve found the magic sauce (we’ll leave that to journalists like those at the New York Times, but we will say that [...]

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change:healthcare in The New York Times

Bringing Comparison Shopping to the Doctor’s Office
New York Times: Claire Cain Miller
Published: June 10, 2010
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SAN FRANCISCO — Americans comparison-shop for items as small as groceries and as big as cars. But they rarely compare prices on their health care. When a doctor recommends a test or a procedure, most patients simply go [...]

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Heading to HealthCamp SF Bay on October 5, 2009 – Will You be There?

In less than a week, a few of us will be in San Francisco for the Health 2.0 conference as well as attending the HealthCamp SF Bay. We are excited to be part of such an innovative group of folks trying to make changes in the healthcare world. You may be asking… what is this [...]

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Step in the right direction: HMS offers online bill pay tool for hospitals

HMS (Healthcare Managements Systems Inc.) announced August 7th (I know, I am a little behind) that they have an online bill payment tool available for hospitals.  This would allow them to send bills and statements electronically, as well as recieve online payments from patients.
Excepts from their announcement: “Our online bill pay product creates a particular [...]

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Guest Post: 5 Factors That Boost the Popularity of Healthcare IT

By: Kat Sanders (more info on the author below)
There was a time when you had to choose between engineering and medicine even though you were equally inclined to both. The situation has undergone a vast change today, and you have common ground between technology and medicine in the form of healthcare IT. Although it is [...]

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