OMAHA, Neb.--Avantas, a leading provider of strategic labor management technology, services and strategies for the healthcare industry, today announced that the Penn State Hershey Medical Group has saved more than $800,000 in one year since implementing Avantas’ consulting services and healthcare enterprise labor management solutions.

DALLAS, August 7, 2014--According to the new market research report "Medication Management Market by Systems (CPOE, CDSS, Automated Dispensing, Assurance Systems), Services (Medication Analytics, POC Verification, ADE Surveillance), Mode of Delivery (On-Premises, Web-Based, Cloud-Based) - Global Forecast to 2019", published by MarketsandMarkets, analyzes and studies major market drivers, restraints, and opportunities in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Rest of the World (RoW).

Innovative technologies continue to push all boundaries.

Scottsdale, AZ, August 08, 2014 -- NCPDP, the not-for-profit pharmacy standards development organization, announced today the deadline to submit a proposal for the NCPDP 2015 Annual Technology & Business Conference is September 1st. The national conference draws more than 700 attendees from across the healthcare industry, including technical, business and executive representatives from health plans, pharmacy benefit managers, retail and independent pharmacies, long-term care providers, healthcare consultants, technology vendors, manufacturers, wholesale drug distributors, database management organizations and others.

WOONSOCKET, R.I., Aug. 7, 2014--The first MinuteClinic walk-in medical clinics in Nebraska are opening this week inside select CVS/pharmacy stores. Two clinics opened yesterday in Lincoln and one is opening today in Omaha.  A third clinic in Lincoln and three more clinics in the Omaha area will open later this month.

NEW YORK--Aetna (NYSE: AET) and NYUPN Clinically Integrated Network, LLC (NYUPN) today announced an accountable care collaboration that is designed to improve patient care and lower health care costs. Effective July 1, NYUPN and its more than 1,800 clinical faculty and health care professionals affiliated with NYU Langone Medical Center and University Physicians Network (UPN) began working more closely with Aetna to ensure improved care coordination and care quality. Aetna will financially reward NYUPN for quality health outcomes for approximately 24,000 members in both commercial and Medicare Advantage plans.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 6, 2014--Practice Fusion, the nation's largest cloud-based electronic health record (EHR) platform, today announced the acquisition of Ringadoc, an innovator of next-generation patient-doctor communication tools. This acquisition gives Practice Fusion a springboard for entry into the telemedicine market, an industry expected to swell to $4.5 billion in 2018.

Post your procedure online and physicians will bid to perform the surgery. A new company has taken price transparency to a new level with this Priceline-like business model.