Mike Miliard
Acumen Solutions has been selected by the Department of Health and Human Services to build a cloud-based customer relations management solution in support of the department's electronic healthcare record program, which has been expanded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
David E. Garets, president and CEO of HIMSS Analytics, says that while there's certainly still a long way to go, providers across the country "are making significant progress in a whole bunch of places" in the implementation and effective use of healthcare IT.
Purdue University has been given $12 million in funding which will be put towards its efforts to help foster the adoption and implementation of healthcare IT.
Like everywhere, Detroit has been hit hard by this recession - only much, much worse. But thanks to a clever idea from a local staffing firm, Blue Cross Blue Shield Michigan saved 1,000 of its IT jobs from going offshore.
Concord Hospital, the New Hampshire regional medical center, has chosen Orion Health's Rhapsody Integration Engine to be the new platform to migrate and manage message exchange for their health information system (HIS).
Xerox has announced its acquisition of Dallas-based Affiliated Computer Services. This merger will accelerate Xerox's growth in the expanding business process and document management market.
NaviNet, the country's largest real-time healthcare communications network, will partner with major health insurers in New Jersey for a pilot program in which a multi-payer portal will serve as a "one-stop shop" for physicians in the state to communicate directly with an array of health plans.
Stressing the benefits of early action - and illustrating just how much farther ahead in adoption Massachusetts is than many other parts of the country - two significant local users of healthcare IT offered insights from their experiences in Boston on Tuesday.
Speaking in Boston Tuesday at the Healthcare Stimulus Exchange Roadshow, Vish Sankaran, director for the Federal Health Architecture Program, outlined his vision for the government's role in promoting broader healthcare IT adoption via the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN).
Philips Telehealth Solutions has been chosen to provide telehealth monitors to SunCrest Healthcare, a Madison, Tenn.-based provider of home health, companion care, and therapy.