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ISoft, a cash-strapped software provider for Britain's National Health Service, is being sued in New Zealand over a business it acquired three years ago.

Saturday marks the three-year anniversary of the deadline for small health plans to start providing individuals with a privacy rights notice, which is significant because health plans must remind individuals about the availability of the notice every three years.

More than 60 percent of hospitals in the U.S. have made significant enough investments in information technology to begin seeing reductions in operating costs, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers (www.pwc.com/healthcare) which has published a groundbreaking report on the relationship between health IT investment and hospital operating performance.

Department of Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt today announced a package of measures aimed to help patients in the most disadvantaged communities use web-delivered e-Government services to make choices about their healthcare and empower them to shape services around their needs and experience.

UnitedHealth Group Inc., the largest U.S. health insurance company, announced yesterday that it has unveiled a Web site that allows doctors' offices to get claims approval within seconds rather than the weeks it sometimes takes to settle claims.