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- Sul America Health Care Finds Prescription for Productivity in TIBCO's BPM Software
- With nearly 1.8 million customers, Sul America Health Care is Brazil's largest insurance provider. And, with the responsibility of processing more than 150,000 reimbursements each month, it manages one of Latin America's most complex insurance operations. Sul America recognized that its healthcare reimbursement process could be improved to save costs...
- Tags: TIBCO Software Inc., Reimbursement, BPM, Insurance, Business Process Automation, Operational Planning, Financial Planning, Strategy, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, It Operations, Finance, Management
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- Voters disconnected from their health policy reality
- Voters disconnected from their health policy realityMedicare tends to keep costs downInsurance companies don't seem to worry as much as politicians when it comes to health care costs. Doctors therefore accept less for Medicare patients than they do for private insurance patients.The reason for this is that private insurance...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Health care inflation, Medicare, insurance
- Discussion threads 2008-08-14
- U.S. Internet down by law, not market
- U.S. Internet down by law, not marketPlease refrain from the BS, Dana[i]ISPs are free to set terms and conditions of service, but if those terms become onorous the consumer can simply change carriers[/i]And we cannot?If I do not like Comcast I can move to Verizon, Cavalier, AOL, ATX, the list...
- Tags: Cable, Network technology, broadcaster
- Discussion threads 2008-08-14
- Inside long term care with Martin Bayne
- Inside long term care with Martin BayneLife ExperienceMy wife and I considered long term care insurance and watching my grandmother's estate be completely drained to pay for facility care due to Alzheimer's. We found a site called Insure Your Future (http://www.disabilityinsuranceadvisor.com/) and called an agent. She took us...
- Tags: Financial Planning, long-term care, insurance, Martin Bayne, government
- Discussion threads 2008-07-31
- What people hate most about health insurance
- What people hate most about health insurancetry medicaid if you want a real headacheIf you think your paid insurance is bad, try living on SS or SSI, yet being expected to make co-pays on everything they can find to ding you on, it may sound like no big deal if...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, health care, health insurance
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- The key barrier to health care reform
- The correct market response is to raise salaries, but the reimbursement systems of our health care system are actually lowering take-home pay for many family doctors. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Barrier, Health Care, Family Medicine, Atlanta Journal-Constitution Story, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs Uses Shared and Self Services to Enhance Efficiency
- The Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs Defrawanted to achieve the efficiency savings set by the Gershon Report through optimal asset utilization, sound planning, and world-class business processes. The challenge was to reduce environmental impact of operations in line with the government's "Green" IT agenda. As a solution Defra...
- Tags: Food, Oracle Corp., Environment, Asset Management, Food & Beverage, Government, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Manufacturing
- Case studies 2008-07-01
- Yahoo: Our poison pill isn't 'nuts'; Icahn guessing at plan costs
- Yahoo in an SEC filing fired its latest volley at billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn and defended its employee compensation plan. The company, embroiled in a proxy war with Icahn, outlined an FAQ that it sent employees. The key excerpts: Mr. Icahn says this Plan costs...
- Tags: Poison Pill, Yahoo! Inc., Mr., Plan, Benefits, Investment, Vertical Industries, Financial Services, Human Resources, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- Deja vu all over again on health insurance
- A New England Journal of Medicine editorial on health insurance out today warns we could be heading back to another Harry and Louise moment, alluding to the failure of health care reform in 1994. The proposals offered by John McCain on the one hand and Barack Obama...
- Tags: Health Insurance, Health Care, Benefits Expert, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- Yahoo beefs up severance packages (just in case Microsoft succeeds)
- Yahoo said in an SEC filing that it has beefed up severance packages for full-time employees--not to mention executives--in the event of layoffs. Simply put, this move is designed to make Microsoft pay a bit more to lay off Yahoos. In the filing, Yahoo...
- Tags: Employee, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Benefits, Recruitment & Selection, Stock Options, Investment, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Stock Options & Grants, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-19
- States go it alone in health care reform
- California and New York are both trying to cut their states' health care costs, and their stories provide a cautionary tale in the national debate. In California, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger tried to push through a grand compromise on reform, but it was finally killed by both parties...
- Tags: Medicaid, Media, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-18
- Apple's most valuable vendors; New campus on tap; Jobs raise possible
- Apple filed its annual report with the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday and outlined a few notable items: A list of most valuable vendors, a second corporate campus on tap, component costs and a potential raise for Steve Jobs. Among the highlights: The company outlined its most valuable...
- Tags: Job, Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Mr., Campus, Company, Research & Development, Benefits, Manufacturing, Business Operations, Human Resources, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-11-16
- Any better excuses?
- Any better excuses?Mehdehhhcahherrre: Turns his head......cough.Turns his head...cough.Doctor says: [i]"You have a bad cough."[/i](Drum roll....ba da beeeshh)Seriously, if I had to base selecting a universal method of insurance on which carrier has had the most efficient system of physician reimbursement, I'd put my money on Medicare, any day.Despite the long-term...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Medicare
- Discussion threads 2007-11-10
- Free T-Mobile BlackBerry Curve 8320 offer now on Amazon
- Not only that, but after rebates, you wind up being in the black $50.01. You are already looking at a pop up spawned from this offer's main page on Amazon.com. Here's the link. Of course these rebates are contingent on...
- Tags: T-Mobile, Amazon.com Inc., Smart Phones, PDAs, Handhelds, Sales Channel, Cellular Phones, Financial Services, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Sales, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-10-21
- Consulting's dirty little secret
- Consulting's dirty little secretAn angry apathetic writer who doesn't look at himself.In EVERY consulting project that I've ever done where it went past the expected due date, the fault has always been with the customer. I want to go in, get the job done, so I can then move...
- Tags: Outsourcing, Backups, consulting
- Discussion threads 2007-10-18
- Oracle's double standards
- Oracle has allegedly invited 30 bloggers to its Oracle OpenWorld event. Yay - they get the value of independent analysis...or do they? Check Jake Kuramoto's blog on the topic: Oracle has extended an invitation to leaders in the blogging community, who can come experience the pageantry of an entire...
- Tags: Conversation, Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Standards, Blogger, Justin, Mike Krigsman, Jeff, Back Story, Public Relations, Blogging, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Internet, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-10-15
- CIO Agenda: Driving the Enterprise 2.0 - Transcript
- Dave Margulius: When you think about your customers both internal and external, how fast are their demands changing? You know, if I'd asked you it last year, "What do they want?" Is it significantly different from now and what's the impact on IT? And then kind of corollary to...
- Tags: Laughter, Government, Product, Business, Health Care, Enterprise 2.0, Monopoly Here, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2007-09-06
- Must health care innovation be expensive?
- Must health care innovation be expensive?Labor is where the real costs are.Innovations such as these can be nice, even important, but labor costs are where most of health care money goes. Direct care is only part of it; a large and increasing portion goes to support the redundant bureaucracies...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care
- Discussion threads 2007-08-31
- Timesheets Xpress (exe)
- Professional time tracking and productivity for teams and individuals, allowing users to record tasks and notes to Clients and Projects, project charges and personal expenses can also be recorded. The program has powerful reports and analysis graphs allowing users to bill clients or projects and to analyze where time is...
- Tags: Human Resources, Billing, E-mail, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2007-08-17
- Pirates and other nonsense
- Digging through the "blog ideas" pile on my desktop, I found this article from earlier this week discussing Sweden's "Pirate Party." A US branch does exist, and so I decided to take at tour of its issues page to see what pirates truly stand for.As shouldn't surprise anyone, not very...
- Tags: Cost, Copyright Law, Piracy, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2007-08-16
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