Healthcare IT News
ClaimTrust, a leading provider of revenue cycle tools and services for hospitals launched InSight Audit, a fully hosted, Web-based solution aimed at providing healthcare organizations with one central location for managing all medical claims audits.
ERT, a global provider of technology and services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries,will acquire the research services division of CareFusion Corporation (CRS), for $81 million in cash.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has awarded $60 million in research grants through the Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP) program to the Mayo Clinic of Medicine, Harvard University, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
If Donald Berwick, MD, is confirmed as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, he and David Blumenthal, MD, the national coordinator for health IT, would be a "dream team" in pursuing a coherent national healthcare and health IT strategy.
Like other healthcare leaders in Maine, David Howes does not expect to hear anything new on healthcare reform when President Barack Obama makes a stop here Thursday, but Howes, a physician and CEO of Portland, Maine-based Martin’s Point Health Care, views the law as "an enormous step forward.”
Jonathan Teich, MD, an eMergency physician and internist, expects meaningful use requirements to give clinical decision support a boost.
Doctors who use file-sharing software could be putting their patients' medical information at risk, according to a new study.
The following are excerpts from comments – some of them dozens of pages long – submitted to the federal government regarding the proposed meaningful use requirements. The final rules, taking the comments into account, are due out in late spring, according to federal officials.
The comment period on the proposed meaningful use rule and the interim standards final rule closed March 15. On March 17, federal officials said they had collected some 2,700 comment letters.