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- Lawson Software delivers client/server cost management solutions to 8 major healthcare organizations; Lawson fiscal year-to-date revenue growth in healthcare exceeds 100 percent
- MINNEAPOLIS--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 5, 1996--Lawson Software, a leading provider of client/server cost management solutions for healthcare organizations, today announced that eight major healthcare providers have recently selected Lawson's integrated solutions to analyze and control their costs more effectively. Overall, the company's healthcare initiative, in which Lawson is tailoring its business...
- Research articles 1996-02-05
- Complete Health Management Solution: Win-Win for Employers and Employees
- The overwhelming challenge of controlling medical plan costs demands that plan sponsors consider a mix of short- and long-term savings initiatives. By introducing the right mix of medical cost avoidance options, plan sponsors can eliminate up to 6% of annual medical trend while, at the same time, improve employees' perception...
- White papers 2003-06-13
- Clinical Audits: A Critical Component in Effective Health Care Management
- For employers crafting mid-to-long term cost management solutions in their medical benefit plans it is critical they understand the demographics of their employee population and the clinical conditions driving medical costs. Conducting a clinical audit of their health plan or care management service provider is useful in identifying the operational...
- White papers 2002-11-01
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- Improving the Harvest: Farming and Health Care
- By Bill Kramer I love Atul Gawande's writings on health care. He has a rare talent for describing technical details of health care, insurance and finances in terms that most people can understand. His recent article in the New Yorker discussed the current health reform bills' approach to curbing costs,...
- News items 2009-12-16
- CVS Pushes Online Health Care
- CVS is expanding health care services online to make them more comprehensive and accessible to consumers at a time when medical concerns are gaining and other retailers are encroaching on their wellness territory. To improve access to medical information, CVS is expanding a program with Google Health...
- Blog posts 2009-04-10
- Let's Reboot America's Health IT Conversation Part 2: Beyond EHRs
- by DAVID C. KIBBE and BRIAN KLEPPER Yesterday we tried to put EHRs into perspective. They're important, and we can't effectively move health care forward without them. But they're only one of many important health IT functions. EHRs and health IT alone won't fix health care. So developing a comprehensive...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Health Reform Ideas Are Treading Water
- If you ever got the idea that health reform efforts have been treading water for years, if not decades, you will feel vindicated by a recent study on disease management and an article about “shared medical decision-making.†Both of them tell us what we’ve already known for a long time:...
- Blog posts 2009-02-12
- Health Care Reform: Why Greed Isn't the Problem
- At the heart of the political debate on health care reform lies an economic assumption: The health care industry makes too damn much money. Don't believe it. At the heart of the political debate on health care reform lies an economic assumption: The health care industry makes too damn...
- Articles 2009-09-30
- Government agencies to spend $15 billion on health IT by 2014
- Federal agency spending on health IT systems could rise to $5.6 billion Federal, state and local governments will spend $15 billion on information technology systems to support their public health and health insurance programs in 2014, a $3 billion increase from 2009 levels, according to a new report from the Input ...
- News items 2009-10-23
- Balancing for Success 2003: The Top Issues Facing the Managed Health Care Industry
- In a trend that has been gathering momentum for the past few years, cost has become the dominant issue facing the managed health care industry, and the health sector overall. This paper explores the complex issues and challenges health plans are navigating - as well as CGE&Y's insights into helping...
- White papers 2003-03-01
- AFL-CIO Employer Purchasing Coalition Tackles Escalating Health Care Costs by Selecting ActiveHealth Management's URAC-Accredited Disease Management Program
- NEW YORK -- AEPC Chooses ActiveHealth's Informed Care Management Program To Improve Health Care Quality and Help Members Cope with High-Cost Chronic Conditions ActiveHealth Management, Inc. (ActiveHealthR), a clinically-based, technologically-driven health management services company, has been selected by the AFL-CIO Employer Purchasing Coalition AEPC to provide its Informed Care...
- Research articles 2006-06-12
- Laboring to manage care: how unions and management at AT&T worked out a settlement on health care that both sides could live with
- Health care benefits have become a serious stumbling block in labor negotiations in recent years. Continuing health care cost inflation and FASB's proposal to transform post-retirement medical liabilities for active employees into a current expense have made health care cost containment a strategic imperative for most large employers.
- Research articles 1991-08-01
- St. Joseph's Health Care, London Standardizes On Workbrain ERM 3.0; Implementation Highlights Value of Employee Relationship Management to the Health Care Industry
- Business/Technology Editors and Medical Writers ATLANTA--BUSINESS WIRE--April 1, 2002 Workbrain, Inc., the industry-standard for Employee Relationship Management ERM solutions, today announced that St. Joseph's Health Care, London, a major patient care, teaching and research centre, has chosen Workbrain ERM 3.0 to automate and transform complex employee processes. St....
- Research articles 2002-04-01
- Prospective health helps Duke workers achieve wellness
- Preventive health care and disease management have played an ever-expanding role in health care management over the last several years, though typically not together. Duke University, however, is taking steps to change that. Duke, home to one of the country's most prestigious medical schools and teaching hospitals, has melded...
- Research articles 2004-04-15
- Can Pay-For-Performance Work in Health Care? You Bet.
- A nationwide health care study is finding that tying bonuses to certain medical steps can save millions of dollars and thousands of lives. The downside: More paperwork! ...
- Articles 2009-09-21
- Another view on COAG and health reform
- Paul Smith, the political editor at Australian Doctor magazine, has been tracking the progress of health reform, and reckons those of us bemoaning the slow progress at COAG this week might be overlooking some of the reform action that's been going on in the background. He writes: "You could say...
- News items 2009-12-08
- Sen. Frist to Shape Future Health Care Leaders at Vanderbilt
- Recruiting "celebrity" professors has become de rigueur at top business schools, and Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management continues the trend with the addition of former United States Senate Majority Leader and transplant surgeon Bill Frist, M.D. Slated to begin next semester, Frist’s class will combine business...
- Blog posts 2008-10-23
- Effects Of Cost Control Are 'Clear As Mud'.(health care industry)
- JULIAN P. FISHER II, CLU, IS VICE PRESIDENT-ACCIDENT AND HEALTH DIVISION AT RELIANCE NATIONAL, A NEW YORK CITY SUBSIDIARY OF RELIANCE NATIONAL GROUP. E-MAIL HIM AT: With the recently reported rise in health care premiums, the effects of cost controls in the health care industry...
- Research articles 1998-06-08
- Can Disease Management Reduce Health Care Costs by Improving Quality?
- Disease Management DM promises to achieve cost savings by improving the quality of care for chronic diseases. During the past decade the Permanente Medical Group in Northern California has implemented extensive DM programs. Examining quality indicators, utilization, and costs for adults with four conditions, we find evidence of substantial quality...
- White papers 2004-12-01
- Does Population Management of Chronic Disease Lead to Lower Costs of Care?
- The paper is an important contribution to the dialogue about the role of chronic disease management in quality improvement and health care cost mitigation. There is much enthusiasm for the potential impact of disease management techniques on the costs associated with chronic and complex health conditions. It describes several considerations...
- White papers 2004-12-01
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