Wednesday, July 25, 2007
HCA's Accounts Receivable Unit Reaching Out to Other Hospitals
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HCA's Accounts Receivable Unit Reaching Out to Other Hospitals
Company to add jobs in Louisville, USA
By Patrick Howington, The Courier-Journal
National Patient Account Services is branching out from its main role of collecting accounts for its parent company, hospital chain HCA...
The Louisville-based accounts-receivable management company has begun signing non-HCA hospitals as clients. Landing three contracts recently led the company to create 100 jobs, including at least 60 in Louisville.
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Labels: accounts-receivable, finance-usa, healthcare, healthcare-usa
Sunday, March 11, 2007
Healthcare Provider Selects CareTech for IT Outsourcing Services
CareTech Solutions, a healthcare IT and Health Information Management (HIM) services provider, has signed an IT outsourcing contract with Wisconsin’s Holy Family Memorial health network which includes an in-patient facility, outpatient campus, clinics and retail pharmacies.
CareTech will provide IT support services in data center operations, help desk, desktop, network and applications, technical resources for implementation of Holy Family Memorial’s strategic information technology plan.
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Labels: healthcare, healthcare-usa, it-healthcare, it-healthcare-usa
Friday, March 9, 2007
NHS, UK to export accounting, payroll jobs to India
February 09, 2007
The NHS is to export hundreds of clerical jobs to India, it was announced yesterday.
As many as two thirds of NHS accounting and finance functions would be outsourced, with much of the work being done in India.
In 2004 the NHS set up a joint venture with Xansa, the leading outsourcing company...
Invoices, expenses claims, payroll details and other financial data is sent by participating trusts to the SBS centres in Leeds, Bristol, Southampton and Portsmouth. The documents are scanned and sent electronically to India, where staff process them.
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Labels: accounting, accounting-healthcare, accounting-india, accounting-uk, finance-healthcare, healthcare, healthcare-india, healthcare-uk, payroll-healthcare, payroll-india, payroll-uk
Outsourcing Partly to Blame for Walter Reed Failures?
By Jenny Mandel, Gov Exec
During a hearing to investigate widely publicized problems at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, lawmakers and Army officials placed partial blame on a public-private job competition that sapped the facility of workers, and on uncertainty about the slated closure of the center in the ongoing Base Realignment and Closure process. They questioned whether it had been a mistake to outsource base operations support...
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Labels: government, government-usa, healthcare, healthcare-usa, hospitals, hospitals-usa, problems
Thursday, March 8, 2007
Philippines Medical Transcription Sector Rakes $75M in Revenues
MANILA, Philippines, Feb 16, 2007
The medical transcription (MT) sector is expected to grow faster than the call center industry after generating an estimated $75 million in revenues in 2006.
Industry group Medical Transcription Industry Association of the Philippines Inc. (MTIAPI) noted a sharp rise in total revenues in the last three years from $42 million in 2004.
The US is the largest market for local MT companies and the high demand for offshore services is driven by the passage of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
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Labels: healthcare, healthcare-philippines, medical-transcription, medical-transcription-philippines, philippines, transcription, transcription-asia, transcription-philippines
Adaptis to Offer Subrogation Services Through SOCRATES INC.
Adaptis to Offer Subrogation Services Through SOCRATES INC. - Press release
Strategic Partnership Broadens Service Portfolio and Provides Added Cost Savings for Clients
SEATTLE, March 5, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- Adaptis, a leading provider of Business Process Integration solutions for health payors, today announced that it signed a strategic partnership with Pittsburgh, PA-based SOCRATES, INC., a privately-held subrogation company exclusively focused on the health payor industry. As part of the agreement, Adaptis will expand its claims processing services post claims adjudication with optional subrogation services. The proprietary SOCRATES(R) system and MY SOCRATES(R) family of software products provide the unique ability to seamlessly import, filter, scrub, identify and fully review, track and manage subrogation case files based upon unique claims diagnosis codes or threshold dollar amounts. Direct legal affiliation assists recovery processes, with client satisfaction assured through Adaptis' account management oversight, providing seamless integration.
Labels: claims-processing, healthcare, insurance, law, law-healthcare
Friday, March 2, 2007
HCL Technologies to provide healthcare IT infrastructure
28 February 2007
HCL Technologies Ltd will demonstrate its healthcare technologies at the HIMSS annual conference in New Orleans this week. The company will demonstrate how its healthcare IT service help independent software vendors (ISVs) and hospitals improve overall patient care and achieve significant cost savings, the company said in a filing with the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE).
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Labels: healthcare, healthcare-india, it-healthcare
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