Special Reports

AZ: So, it sounds like switch between, at least the perception of, health plans saying to doctors, "You'll do what I say," to "We're going to give you a great service, and that's why you're going to

AZ: As you're doubtless both aware, lots of state and regional and other configurations of groups are putting together health information exchanges that are different in nature; they're not as

In March of this year, WellPoint and Availity announced a strategic partnership with Availity-- a health information network that connects health plans and providers. Anne Zieger, Editor of

Welcome to the first annual FierceHealthcare review of health plan CEO compensation. Despite the trials and tribulations of the past year, there are several executives still raking in quite a few

In yet another sign of the stresses facing our healthcare system, a recent study found that chronically ill patients in the U.S. are much more likely to go without healthcare because of the cost than

While hospitals in every state are struggling to fund charity care and bad debt, things in New Jersey are particularly bad. Not only does the state have 1.3 million people without insurance--and a

Q&A with Dr. Steve Cooley

Most Innovative Acute Care Hospitals - 2007 Welcome to the FierceHealthcare Hospital Innovators Awards! These awards honor some of the

The top 10 companies shaking up Health IT
(that you haven't heard of...yet)

Top Healthcare IT innovators

Hello, and welcome to the first edition of our Top Health IT Innovators list. We’re excited to be showcasing what are regarded as some of the most interesting—and disruptive—companies we know of in the healthcare IT industry, including some we can more or less guarantee you’ve never heard of (yet).

Consumer Health IT?

Wondering why you see so many companies working on consumer-type problems on the list, rather than the back-end gear touched by CIOs and network admins? That’s because this may be the year when consumers have more contact with enterprise health IT than they ever have had before. Many of the intriguing technologies we’re highlighting are designed to guide consumers in their care electronically, using smart interactivity and content. Why? Because while doctors are already good at working with standard internal records, they currently don’t have a smooth way to interact with patients online, link the patients into their own decision-making process or collect patients’ self-reported impressions of how they’re doing. We’re not talking about a big boost in the use of PHRs, though that may indeed happen; we’re talking about a two-way flow of clinical and personal information that the industry has never seen before.