Health IT company Infina Connect, which develops software used by doctors, hospital systems and insurance companies, is closing in on a fundraising haul of $1.2 million.Infina Connect, based in Cary, North Carolina, has raised just over $1 million in debt, options and warrants so far in a sale that began on Jan. 13, according to [...]

I find it really strange that dental care is excluded from health insurance, including commercial and government programs. It’sincreasinglyuntenable in my view. Why?Neglect of dental issues due to lack of coverage causes higher medical expenses, for example as dental infections spread to other parts of the bodyHospital emergency rooms are seeing many dental cases (representing [...]

Spending on U.S. healthcare spending slows; genomics venture Warp Drive Bio launches, CVS makes an acquisition and the birth of Beyonce and Jay-Z’s daughter causes a hospital stir.

Ohio Democrats are trying to step up the pressure on their Republican counterparts to create the state’s health insurance exchange, a consumer marketplace for insurance that was a key provision of federal health reform.Democrats introduced legislation that would set up the exchange, but the move appears more of an attempt to rally public opinion for [...]

The largest health insurance company in Ohio is looking to further its reach in Indiana, planning a 30 percent expansion next year in the Hoosier State.Medical Mutual of Ohio expects to increase its coverage in Indiana to 21,000 members next year from a current 16,000, the Indianapolis Business Journal (IBJ) reported. And then the company [...]

The Minnesota Department of Commerce today rolled out some examples of what the state’s health insurance exchange website may look like.Mandated through U.S. healthcare reform measures, health insurance exchanges are state-run websites that allow consumers to enter information and comparison shop for health plans.Five companies put up prototypes for Minnesota, including Curam Software, Deloitte Consulting [...]

When I was in Seattle on business a couple months ago I met Jonathan Rickert, CEO of an interesting company called Array Health. They are a start-up operation with aspirations to provide health plans with private exchanges that will give small businesses and individuals access to several health plan and ancillary benefit designs rather than [...]

A health IT startup that bills its education technology as an “Expedia for health insurance” is looking to cash in on the state insurance exchanges created under last year’s federal health reform law.New York-based bWell-Informed has already scored a deal to plug its software into Utah’s health insurance exchange, which is an online marketplace that [...]

Cancer care pathways company PathForward Oncology has named health insurance executive Brian Litten as the new company’s first CEO.Bluffton, South Carolina-based PathForward is a new joint venture formed by benefits management company CareCore National and D3 Oncology Solutions, an affiliate of UPMC Cancer Centers in Pittsburgh.var page_count = “off”; [...]

The populist anger and frustration fueling the Occupy Wall Street movement has thus far focused most of its animus on just one industry: financial services.But it’s not farfetched to think that as the “Occupy” movement gathers steam, it — or perhaps another future movement like it — could set its sights on the healthcare industry, [...]