Costs

DHC 2007: Controlling health IT costs the key to capturing value

Why that distortion exists could be the subject of an entire conference, and it occupied a fair amount of time during Digital Healthc...

DHC 2007: Without fuller IT adoption, health costs might drain America's wealth

Within healthcare IT, a subje...

Manufacturers concerned with rising material costs

The , a nonprofit consulting organization for small and mid-sized manufacturers, conducted the survey of 173 Wisco...

Consultant says beware hidden costs of bad IT projects

Robert Balon, a principal in in Chicago, delivered that sobering message Wednesday at the Milwaukee Athletic Club d...

Cedara acquisition costs hit Merge Technologies numbers

Although quarterly revenue was at a record high of $18.8 million, the company took a loss of slightly under $12 million, or $0.62...

Wi-Fi flows freely, but it costs

I'm not just talking fancy properties...

Super advertising slogans, and super costs

Some taglines catch the users attention, but most are simply confusing, causing them to escape the trap and run away. The combined yearly budgets of all the strangely composed...

Fiserv Health and Aetna help employers control health care costs

WAUSAU, Wis. , a Fiserv Healt...

Doubling the lily pads: Controlling the explosion in health care costs

MADISON Back in his math teacher days, Al Jacobs taught students about the power of doubling by talking about lily pads. Imagine a colony of lily pads on a pond and the pads doubled in area every day: How long would it take for an area of two square feet of lily pads to cover a pond of 250,000 square feet? Only 17 days, thanks to the power of doubling. Two square feet becomes four, eigh...

Fiserv Launches Avidyn Health to Target Healthcare Costs

Brookfield, Wis. - Fiserv Health, an operating group of provides independent health plan management, claims proce...

Health Care Costs Continue Double-Digit Pace, But May Start Moderating in 2004

U.S. health care cost increases continued to escalate at a double-digit pace in 2003, but there are indications that rate hikes may begin moderating as early as next year, according to global HR outsourcing and consulting firm Hewitt Associates (NYSE: HEW). For 2004, Hewitt is projecting a 12.6 percent average increase for employers, which is lower than 2003's 14.7 percent rate. Large c...