Close Close
Sign In
Newsletters
Popular Financial Topics Discover relevant content from across the suite of ALM legal publications From the Industry More content from ThinkAdvisor and select sponsors Investment Advisor Issue Gallery Read digital editions of Investment Advisor Magazine Tax Facts Get clear, current, and reliable answers to pressing tax questions
Luminaries Awards
Podcast Center Video Center Webcasts Resource Center Events
About ThinkAdvisor Contact Us Advertise With Us Asset & Logo Licensing Sitemap Terms of Service Privacy Policy Copyright © 2024 ALM Global, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
ThinkAdvisor

Practice Management > Building Your Business

Tech Bits: Benefitfocus, Zix, MEDecision, Others

By Staff Writer

X
Your article was successfully shared with the contacts you provided.

A benefits software firm is getting health account management technology from a unit of Express Scripts Inc.

Benefitfocus.com Inc., Charleston, S.C., has agreed to building the “consumer-directed healthcare” system from ConnectYourCare L.L.C., Hunt Valley, Md., into its own system.

Express Scripts, St. Louis, a pharmacy benefits manager, acquired ConnectYourCare from the founding investors in October 2007.

The ConnectYourCare system Benefitfocus will be using includes health account payment card services, a consumer account and investment management system, and an electronic funds management and transfer system.

In other insurance and benefits technology news:

- Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Boston, will be testing a program that will send disease management program eligibility information through a wireless electronic prescribing service run by Zix Corp., Dallas.

Massachusetts Blue will use the service to notify doctors prescribing certain drugs that patients may be eligible for Massachusetts Blue disease management programs, the companies say.

- MEDecision Inc., Wayne, Pa., has introduced the Alineo health care management system.

The system includes predictive modeling tools for identifying patients who could benefit from case management and disease management programs.

The system also will include medical information, care management program administration tools and reporting tools, MEDecision says.

- WorldDoc Inc., Las Vegas, will be combining its Web-based health education and information tools with Web-based health plan patient self-service tools from Eldorado Computing Inc., Phoenix, the companies say.

Eldorado does business as MphasiS Healthcare Solutions.

- DentalPlans.com Inc., Dania, Fla., has introduced a Spanish-language version of its main, English-language discount dental plan Web site.

The new site, which includes entries for all of the plans offered through the English-language site, is at Document Link

NOT FOR REPRINT

© 2024 ALM Global, LLC, All Rights Reserved. Request academic re-use from www.copyright.com. All other uses, submit a request to [email protected]. For more information visit Asset & Logo Licensing.