Outsourcing news and information

A private operator has agreed to run the LSU hospital in Lake Charles, La., that cares for the uninsured, Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration announced Friday. The agreement is part of the administration's efforts to move away from a university-run public hospital system.
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A lawsuit against the private contractor that provides medical care in Minnesota prisons alleges that a doctor employed by the company initially failed to order an ambulance when an inmate who later died went into seizures one night in 2010 and that the inmate received negligent care again after a...
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Consolidation among hospitals created a ripple effect this year that also swept through the outsourcing firms that serve them.
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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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