Outsourcing news and information

The operations of Louisiana State University's public hospitals in New Orleans, Houma and Lafayette will be turned over to not-for-profit corporations that run private hospitals in the three cities under outsourcing plans unveiled Monday by Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration.
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Sheridan Healthcare, a Sunrise, Fla.-based provider of clinical and management services for providers, has named John Carlyle as CEO.
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A Florida judge quoted from Sherlock Holmes and conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Thursday as he questioned the state's plan to privatize prison healthcare services.
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David Jackson is the new president of the Association of Health Information Outsourcing Services, Boston, an organization of executives from health information management outsourcing companies.
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Did President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney miss an opportunity in Tuesday night's debate to attract the much-coveted female voting bloc by barely touching on healthcare issues? Or should moderator Candy Crowley take responsibility for that instead?
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SHPS, Louisville, Ky., has sold its collaborative care-management software business to ExlService Holdings.
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A growing healthcare information technology company has snagged a contract to develop policies supporting a California program to link medical records.
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MiraMed Global Services, a business process outsourcing firm based in Jackson, Mich., has tapped Alan Sugerman to serve as CFO.
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What it does: Allscripts Healthcare Solutions provides information technology products to hospitals, physician practices and post-acute organizations.
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Strong-armed billing practices at Fairview Health Services' University of Minnesota Medical Center violated federal patient-protection laws, regulators have concluded.
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