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- Healtheon/WebMD - (NASDAQ: HLTH) is the first end-to-end Internet healthcare company connecting physicians and consumers to the entire healthcare industry. Healtheon/WebMD is using the Internet to facilitate a new system for the delivery of healthcare, resulting in a single, secure environment for all communications and transactions that will enable a more efficient and cost effective healthcare system...

- ACR Appropriateness Criteria - In 1993, the leadership of the American College of Radiology (ACR) determined that in the changing health care environment, a premium would be placed on the efficient use of resources including appropriate use of radiologic services. Additionally, ACR leadership concluded that there was an immediate need for nationally accepted, scientifically based appropriateness criteria to assist radiologists and referring physicians in making appropriate imaging decisions for given patient clinical conditions and that a system needed to be developed for the creation of these criteria...