Diana Manos
Blue Cross and Blue Shield-initiated anti-fraud investigations have recovered or saved more than $510 million in 2009, according to the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, which credits the success in part to technology dedicated to anti-fraud efforts.
A recent study of health information exchange solution vendors shows enterprise HIEs serving integrated delivery networks, health, or hospital systems will be the fastest-growing market segment of HIE organizations in the coming two years.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed changes to ease the burdens of credentialing and privileging for hospitals that provide telemedicine.
IBM has announced it has launched a multi-year research project to connect and analyze enormous collections of data from a wide variety of sources to find ways to improve health. The project will initially focus on childhood obesity.
With some regional extension centers (RECs) poised to open this month, small physician practices will soon have access to the help they need to qualify for meaningful use bonuses under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Ninety percent of U.S. healthcare leaders and 84 percent of global healthcare leaders recently surveyed by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) say information technology will be a "key factor" for transforming healthcare today and in the decade to come.
Certification of electronic health records was at the top of the news in April, with comments due April 9 for the temporary certification proposed rule, and by May 10 for the permanent rule.
A new study by the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University shows that electronic health records in some cases can impose higher costs to hospitals and lower quality of care.
The Department of Health and Human Services and the Office of Civil Rights issued a request for information Monday on the HIPAA privacy rule that governs the accounting of disclosures under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
At the American Hospital Association Conference on Monday, chief information officers at some of the most wired hospitals in the country said they would be hard pressed to qualify for stimulus package healthcare IT incentives by next year.