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• Idaho Selects Thomson Healthcare for Medicaid IT Modernization Initiative

  - 2008-01-17

  To: MEDICAL EDITORS To: MEDICAL EDITORS

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• CIGNA HealthCare Taps Thomson Healthcare to Power Its Health Advocacy and Consumer Engagement Informatics

  - 2007-12-14

  BLOOMFIELD, Conn. -- CIGNA HealthCare today announced it has teamed with Thomson Healthcare (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) to help manage the high-volume, high-frequency analytic data CIGNA HealthCare uses to deliver its industry-leading health advocacy programs. This arrangement will give CIGNA HealthCare greater data management capabilities and flexibility for anticipated growth...

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• Mercer Health & Benefits Signs Agreement with Thomson Medstat to Launch Mercer HealthOnline™

  - 2007-06-27

  One-Stop Repository for Health Care Data to Enable Improved Analysis

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• Thomson Scientific and Healthcare Achieves Premium Application Performance and Business Continuity with F5 Solutions

  - 2006-11-07

  Leading provider of R&D information ensures seamless failover between multiple data centers, improving application recovery time by 98.8%

  Tags: business continuity, health care, performance, Thomson Corp.

• Thomson finally sells AHC--to Thompson.(Thomson Healthcare, American Health Consultants, Thompson Publishing Group Inc.)

  - 2006-09-18

  Thomson Healthcare put its Atlanta-based American Health Consultants on the market in late 2005 (NL/NL 2/17/06). Since that time, if suitors materialized, they either were shown to or looked for the front door. But on August 31, 2006, the Washington, Thomson Healthcare put its Atlanta-based American...

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• Thomson Health head steps down

  - 2006-09-01

  KEVIN KING, president and CEO of Thomson Healthcare, has left the company. It remains unclear whether he will be replaced, company officials said.

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• Congratulations to--.(Greg Freeman, Thomson American Health Consultants)(Brief article)

  - 2006-08-17

  Greg Freeman, editor of Healthcare Risk Management, published by Thomson American Health Consultants, who was honored recently with a 2005 Sigma Delta Chi Award for Newsletter Public Service for his article, "Imposters Could Be Targeting Hospita Greg Freeman, editor of Healthcare Risk Management, published by ...

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• Health Insurance Costs Slow, But Still Top Inflation and Wage Increases

  BNET - 2005-10-01

  Health insurance costs climbed 9.2 percent between the spring of 2004 and the spring of 2005, their lowest rate of increase in five years but still far ahead of rises in inflation (3.5 percent) and workers' pay (2.7 percent), according to data compiled by the Kaiser Family Foundation. The foundation's...

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• Get in the Kitchen

  BNET - 2005-06-01

  As health-care costs have risen, 401k employer contributions have fallen and other perks have become more expensive, entrepreneurs have searched for inexpensive ways to boost staff morale. Now, some companies have found a way - in the kitchen. Polly Talbott, 54, owner and director of A la Carte Culinary Services...

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• Thomson taps King to lead healthcare

  - 2005-04-01

  THOMSON Scientific & Healthcare has selected Kevin King as president and chief executive of its healthcare business. King, who joins Thomson from Global Clinical Systems, where he held the title of vice president and general manager, now reports to Robert Cullen, president and chief executive of Thomson Scientific & Healthcare.

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