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More EHR consolidation with increased innovation?

While many new vendors are currently jumping into the growing electronic health record market, the number of EHR offerings will shrink in the future as companies merge or acquire each other. That's

Aetna acquires Prodigy Health Group for $600M

Aetna ( NYSE: AET ) is acquiring Prodigy Health Group, a third-party administrator of self-funded healthcare plans, for $600 million. The deal is expected to close in the second half of this year and

Aetna to use Medicity as data exchange platform

Aetna ( NYSE: AET ) recently bought Medicity, a health insurance exchange company, which it plans to use as a platform to create a data exchange, Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini told Kaiser Health News. "We

HIE advocates get creative

We won't know for sure for several years, until the federal government has spent all those billions of dollars supporting EMRs, but the health IT portion of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

In search of the truth

Remember my Editor's Corner from Oct. 6 , when I took a swipe at breathless hype surrounding portable personal health records and other health 2.0 technologies that haven't found a workable business