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One way to improve health care: Fix a system "fraught with waste" (Seattle Times) Despite huge sums spent, health care in the U.S. remains inefficient and not well managed. One way to transform it is to pay for results, experts say. us.rd.yahoo.com
La. lawmakers not ready to back health care plan (The Shreveport Times) BATON ROUGE -- Louisiana lawmakers agree something has to be done to improve the state's health care delivery system. us.rd.yahoo.com
Valence Health Expands Executive Team with New Vice President of Consulting Services (Centre Daily Times) Valence Health, a leading provider of clinical integration and data management solutions, today announced the expansion of its executive team with the addition of Elizabeth Simpkin as vice president of consulting services. us.rd.yahoo.com
Carestream Health Awarded $25 Million Country-Wide RIS/PACS Project At Israels Clalit Health Services (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) ROCHESTER, N.Y.----Clalit Health Services has selected Carestream Health's state-of-the-art healthcare IT solution. The PACS, RIS and central archiving solution will be deployed across all Clalit’s hospitals and imaging centers in Israel, by Algotec, a fully owned subsidiary of Carestream Health, and provide more than 1,400 sites with access to the system. us.rd.yahoo.com
Health-Care Stocks: The Obama Effect (BusinessWeek Online via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance) S&P equity analysts examine the ramifications for the industry of potential policy moves by the new Administration us.rd.yahoo.com
CareSource's contract with Mount Carmel expires (The Columbus Dispatch) Medicaid recipients who have CareSource as a health insurer now have only two hospital systems where they can be treated. The managed-care company's contract with Mount Carmel Health System expired Sunday. us.rd.yahoo.com
Two-star rating for care services (Coventry Observer) CITY council chiefs have welcomed an inspectors' report which gives the authority two stars out of a possible three for its adult social care provision. us.rd.yahoo.com
FirstCare Selects Callidus On-Demand Solution to Automate Compensation and Integrate to Salesforce.com (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance) Callidus Software Inc., the leader in Sales Performance Management, today announced that FirstCare Health Plans (FirstCare), a leading provider of health care services, has selected Callidus Software's On-Demand services to manage sales performance and incentive compensation programs for its 460 sales agents and brokers. us.rd.yahoo.com
Financial Crisis Hits Health-Care Companies (BusinessWeek) us.rd.yahoo.com
Now what? Things to know if you're switching health care systems (The Springfield News-Leader) It's health insurance re-enrollment time, and many Ozarkers who are changing health plans may have to find new physicians, specialists and a different hospital. us.rd.yahoo.com
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