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David St. Clair

David St. Clair
David St.Clair founded MEDecision in 1988 to provide healthcare organizations with collaborative healthcare management solutions that provide a simplified and smart way to manage the health of members and member populations. The ultimate aim of MEDecision's technologies is to improve the quality and affordability of care. MEDecision believes that, in the aggregate, its customers insure or manage care for approximately one in every six people in the U.S. with health insurance

Transitioning, Mapping, Validation — Make Your Database Work for You

Every company that moves between systems in an effort to modernize—e.g., moving from Hyperion Enterprise to Oracle Hyperion Financial Management (HFM)—must validate their data....

Is It Time for a Health Care Reform Time Out?

Given their recent sniping, it seems as if fundamentalists on both sides of the health care reform debate are girding themselves for war. What...

Meaningful Use Definition an Important Step in Health IT Adoption

The meaningful use issue has been attracting a lot of attention in health care reform efforts lately. In very broad strokes, the debate stems...

Health IT Can Alleviate Health Care’s Frequent Flier Problem

"'Frequent Fliers' Add Billions to Hospital Bills," a recent article in the Washington Post, discusses the frequent flier phenomenon — a condition of our...

Collaboration and Cooperation Playing Role in Health Care Reform

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) has given the health IT industry a pretty good idea of what will be expected from it...

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