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WellPoint’s challenge.

Angela Braly has a tough job. She became chief executive of WellPoint in early 2007. Right out of the gate she had to fire her chief financial officer due to "misconduct unrelated" to the company. Not long thereafter, the economy began crumbling, taking an especially heavy toll on health insurers, like WellPoint. Proving that there's no rest for the weary, though, this year is starting off with the troubling news that the government is forcing WellPoint to temporarily suspend Medicare en...

Glen Tullman gets it.

When I look around healthcare information technology, I see silos. I find software that gets in the way of productivity. I see technology that is not as reliable or as efficient as it should and could be. When I try to think of companies that are actively working to change that... The list is much shorter than I think it ought to be. But there are a few that are dragging all of us forward. I wrote before about athenahealth and the success they're seeing. I think Allscripts is another ...

Purkinje: growing.

(originally posted on November 11, 2008 at 09:55) Quick. Name one company that does electronic health record software as a service. You might be forgiven for thinking first of those folks in Watertown, but this time I'm talking about Purkinje, that healthcare information technology company with dual citizenship (its based in St. Louis and Montréal). They sell their CareSeries practice management and electronic health record service for $399 a month. Given the current state of the economy,...

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...