Molly Merrill
The National Council for Prescription Drug Programs, a not-for-profit pharmacy standards development organization, has formed a new group to help U.S. healthcare standards development organizations collaborate with each other.
Medica, a health insurance company headquartered in Minneapolis, has paid more than $3 million in the past year to providers in its network for improvements in clinical care provided to members.
Epidemiologists and computer scientists at the University of Iowa have successfully piloted a low-cost, green technology for automatically tracking the use of hand hygiene at hospitals.
Microsoft and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) have partnered to launch a Microsoft Health Users Group (MS-HUG) in the Asia-Pacific region, providing regional healthcare organizations and technology partners with access to an online forum to facilitate the development of healthcare solutions.
According to recent studies, the success of Massachusetts hospitals and physicians in adopting healthcare information technology is due in large part to incentives from health plans and state-mandated requirements.
Kaiser Permanente officials say a partnership with IBM will provide management for its data center operations for members, patients and physicians.
The U.S. Department of Defense Military Health System is planning to deploy a diagnostic decision support system across 75 major military hospitals and 461 clinics worldwide.
Blessing Hospital, a not for profit hospital in Quincy, Ill., is using information technology to improve its revenue cycle management.
By posting wait times for its area emergency rooms, the New Orleans-based Ochsner Health System is striving to become more transparent, officials say.
The Rochester RHIO, the New York area's regional health information organization, has automated access to patient images for participating healthcare institutions.