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The Future: Aflac and Workscape.

I really enjoyed thinking out loud, last week, about the pioneering role athenahealth and TriZetto are playing in moving healthcare forward. I liked it so much, in fact, that I might make a habit out of it. This time around, I'm thinking, out loud, about Aflac and Workscape, and their role in the future of human resources... You surely know Aflac. Yes, the "ask about us at work" duck people. You probably know them best for their "we pay you cash if you get sick or hurt and miss work" ...

The Future: athenahealth and TriZetto.

Sometime in late 2004, I started taking note of this interesting, little (but growing) enterprise out of Massachusetts called athenahealth. I became interested in the company, with its lack of capitalization and spacing, after it got (what I believe was) its first mention on HIStalk. Naturally, Tim couldn't pass up the opportunity to poke at athenahealth's branding, pointing out the company's "insufferably cute breaking of the polite laws of grammar." Grammatical quirks aside, athenahea...