Mike Miliard
More and more EMR vendors are offering confused and wary providers an offer they might find difficult to refuse: a money-back guarantee.
The Kansas Health Policy Authority (KHPA) has extended a $119 million two-year technology services contract with HP Enterprise Services. The extension, which includes two one-year options, will allow the state to meet its budget without eliminating staff or reducing customer service.
Many doctors are deeply skeptical about the future of medicine, according to a recent survey conducted by athenahealth, the provider of Web-based practice management tools, and Sermo, the largest online community for physicians.
The Hawaii Medical Service Association (HMSA), the Blue Cross Blue Shield plan of the Aloha State, will become the first health plan to deploy American Well's new Online Care Team Edition. The new service will bring live, on-demand specialist care consultations into primary care docs' exam rooms – reducing the delay, inconvenience and cost associated with the traditional patient referral process.
The TriZetto Group and 3M Health Information Systems announced an agreement last month that gives TriZetto certain exclusivity to include 3M's ICD-10 Code Translation Tool with several new services for payers under its TriZetto Advantage 10 Services.
Even as providers work to update their security environments, hospital data continues to be at serious risk, according to the 2010 HIMSS Analytics Report: Security of Patient Data.
Providence Health & Services, the Oregon-based not-for-profit health system, has upgraded to GE Healthcare's Centricity EMR platform.
An explosion of data will only continue to pose challenges for CIOs and their servers. This week, EMC Corp. and IDC announced the results of an annual study that measures the growth of digital information not by terabytes or petabytes, but "zettabytes" – a unit of storage equal to one trillion gigabytes.
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee has partnered with Health Dialog, a Boston-based provider of healthcare analytics and decision support, to deliver 24/7 health coaching services to 42,000 Medicare Advantage members in the Volunteer State.
The 7th Annual MIT Sloan CIO Symposium announced Friday four finalists for the 2010 Award for Innovation Leadership. The award honors chief information officers and chief medical information officers for their ability to foster a culture of innovation while delivering best-in-class IT services to support the organizational mission.