Business
WebMD changes name
NEWS IN BRIEF — Posted Aug. 22, 2005
Effective Aug. 5, WebMD Corp. changed its name to Emdeon Corp. to avoid being confused with WebMD Health, the online health information subsidiary it is spinning off to the public. Emdeon, which sells physician practice management software and medical transaction processing services, will continue to trade on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol of HLTH.
Note: This item originally appeared at http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2005/08/22/bibf0822.htm.