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With states bracing for rapid enrollment growth in their Medicaid programs, HHS’ inspector general’s office has given state-based fraud-control units more power to use sophisticated data-analysis tools to recover an estimated $60 million in the next decade.
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In the old days, sales representatives from drug companies would chat up local pharmacists to learn what drugs doctors were prescribing. Now such shoulder-rubbing is becoming a quaint memory—thanks to vast databases of patient and doctor information being used by pharmaceutical companies to...
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HHS' inspector general's office is launching an in-depth investigation into cases where Medicare hospice beneficiaries get inpatient care, following unusual billing patterns that surfaced during recent research on the $1.1 billion industry.
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Roper Industries, Sarasota, Fla., has finished what it started in March, moving deeper into healthcare information technology by completing its announced acquisition of Managed Health Care Associates, Florham Park, N.J., for “approximately $1 billion,” the company has announced.
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Prescription drug data-miner IMS Health, Danbury, Conn., is adding social media content analysis to its repertoire, having announced the acquisition of Semantelli Corp., a social-media analytics company based in Bridgewater, N.J.
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Trinity Health will look to the cloud to enhance its data processing and data analytics capabilities as well as its ability to more rapidly adapt its information technology systems to the fast-moving future.
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Making use of the petabytes of patient data that healthcare organizations possess requires extracting it from legacy systems, normalizing it and then building applications that can make sense of it. That's a tall order, but the facilities that pull it off can learn a lot.
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Editor's note: The Mayo Clinic is working to stay at the forefront of healthcare delivery and medical research in an era of retrenchment in public resources. Modern Healthcare Washington Bureau Chief Jessica Zigmond caught up with Mayo Clinic President and CEO Dr. John Noseworthy during a visit...
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Catholic Health Initiatives is addressing its current health information technology needs by looking to the future.
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A California independent practice association has announced the close to new entrants in its two-year, $3 million Big Data analytic software competition.
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