Mike Miliard

Emdeon, a Nashville-based provider of healthcare revenue and payment cycle management solutions, announced this week the acquisition of Chapin Revenue Cycle Management of Tampa, Fla., a leading provider of hospital-based revenue cycle services, including accounts receivable management, medical denials, appeals and collection improvement initiatives.

HealthBridge, a not-for-profit health information exchange serving the Greater Cincinnati tri-state area, has launched its new Tri-State Regional Extension Center, which will help more than 1,700 physicians and other medical professionals switch from paper to electronic health records.

Soon after implementing an emergency department information system (EDIS) from Addison, Texas-based MEDHOST, Beaufort Memorial Hospital began achieving significant financial returns and seeing operational improvements.

Residents of Buena Vista, Lamar, Leadville and Del Norte, Colo. are among the latest wave of communities nationwide that have recently gained access to innovative telehealth services.

Boston's CareGroup Healthcare System, an integrated delivery network (IDN) composed of four hospitals and hundreds of clinics and physicians' offices, has selected the InterSystems Ensemble rapid integration and development platform to replace its legacy eGate platform for strategic integration throughout the organization.

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has announced the formation of HIMSS Analytics Europe (HAE), a German-based company that will provide healthcare organizations, governments and information technology companies extensive data resources and services about the adoption and use of healthcare information technology in Europe.

CIGNA and CareCentrix have partnered for a pilot program that aims to curtail the growing number of hospital readmissions, providing specialized home nursing services after patient discharge.

The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) announced this month that five Golden State hospitals had been assessed administrative fines and penalties totaling $675,000 after it was determined they'd failed to prevent unauthorized access to confidential patient medical information.

MaxMD and Workflow have announced a partnership agreement under which Workflow will offer MaxMD's HIPAA-compliant email and data encryption capability as an embedded technology in workflowEHR and Workflow's other software products.

During National Health IT Week, health IT leaders meet with legislators, press for regulatory advances