Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC), which operates the Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans in Illinois, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas, today announced that its board of directors has elected Pat Hemingway Hall as the company’s new chief executive officer, effective Nov. 1, 2008.
Hemingway Hall, who has served as HCSC’s president and chief operating officer [...]

Healthation, Inc. announced today that Scott & White Health Plan, a not-for-profit HMO, completed its migration to the AboveHealth Self Service Portal, version 3.23. Version 3.23 offers state-of-the-art functions to handle member eligibility, claims review, EOBs, EOPs, application management, invoicing, and employer management.
Scott & White, the latest Healthation customer to migrate to version 3.23, has [...]

BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners, L.P., a corporate venture fund that is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, and Sandbox Industries announced today a $5-million investment in Initiate Systems, Inc., a leader in master data management (MDM) solutions for health information exchange.
BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners is a newly formed $116-million fund [...]

Fresenius SE, parent company of Fresenius Kabi Pharmaceuticals Holding, Inc. (NASDAQ: APCVZ - News), will announce third quarter earnings on November 4, 2008 at 2:00 p.m. CET/8:00 a.m. EST/ 7:00 a.m. CST. Fresenius Kabi is a business segment of Fresenius SE.
Fresenius Kabi acquired the Schaumburg, Illinois-based APP Pharmaceuticals on September 10, 2008. Under the terms [...]

Riverside Medical Center proudly celebrated the renovation of the North Lobby with a ribbon cutting ceremony on May 19 at 2 PM. Employees and visitors were welcomed to the newly renovated North Lobby for the unveiling ceremony. Updated renovations create an inviting environment for everyone entering the North Lobby looking for outstanding Illinois healthcare.
As Riverside [...]

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Cancer survivors joined Central DuPage Hospital, Radiation Oncology Consultants and ProCure Treatment Centers to break ground on construction of the new Proton Therapy Center of Central DuPage Hospital, a ProCure Center. When it opens in early 2011, the center will be one of only a handful of centers in the nation to offer proton therapy, [...]

HOV Services (HOVS), one of the largest providers of business process and knowledge process outsourcing solutions, today announced the details of its medical records capture and conversion services that are expressly designed for physicians groups. Among its other practice areas, HOVS offers a suite of integrated Business Process Outsourcing solutions to manage the entire revenue [...]

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Akorn, Inc.today announced the FDA approval of NDA 22-221 for Akten™ Ophthalmic Gel 3.5%, a topical, ocular anesthetic formulation. The NDA was filed June 29, 2007 following the results from a randomized, placebo controlled, Phase III clinical trial in 209 subjects who met the primary endpoint in all three dosing arms (p