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Kaiser Permanente, which has won a rash of diversity, customer-satisfaction and other awards recently, boasts that a dozen of its California hospitals have landed on a list of 15 national leaders in implementing electronic health record systems.

A new model audit rule for non-publicly traded insurance companies — basically their version of Sarbanes Oxley — takes effect in January for companies with $500 million or more in premium volume. But some big players, including Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, the State Compensation Insurance Fund, Delta Dental of California and affiliates, Fireman’s Fund and the California State Automobile Association, are getting ready early for the new requirements.

After more than two decades of trying, Emory University will announce April 13 that it has won designation as a National Cancer Institute (NCI) Cancer Center, Atlanta Business Chronicle has learned.

After a year of steady growth, enrollment in UPMC health plans has stagnated, mirroring an increase in the overall jobless rate and the experience of some other insurers.

WARRINGTON — No one has to tell Robert J. Capetola how hard it is to get a new product approved by the Food and Drug Administration in the post-Vioxx era.