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New York-based Empire BlueCross has launched an online store for Medicare Advantage insurance plans as it looks to cater to Baby Boomers who are more comfortable using online resources to make buying decisions.
Two keynote speakers at the fourth annual Health 2.0 Conference yesterday – a futurist and the "godfather” of Web 2.0 – disagreed over whether innovation was happening in the healthcare industry.
There can be no meaningful use of an EHR without product certification. To make the testing go without a hitch, practice, practice and practice some more, officials from the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) urged CIOs gathered at the CHIME10 Fall CIO Forum.
MedPlus, the health information technology subsidiary of Quest Diagnostics, has announced it is partnering with HP to facilitate and simplify electronic health record (EHR) adoption for physician practices nationwide.
Virtually all technologies and processes in a hospital will be affected by the conversion of the nation's disease code sets from ICD-9 to ICD-10, Cynthia Grant, director of Courtyard Group, told a roomful of anxious CIOs. "If you think this will be a software update, think again," she said.
CIOs who are keeping a close watch on the Health Information Exchange (HIE) and Regional Extension Center (REC) efforts in their states are worried the country might be building a Tower of Babel, as Catherine M. Szenczy, senior vice president and CIO of MedStar Health in Columbia, Md., put it.
Management flaws are hobbling DOD's plans to acquire a commercial electronic health record and to stabilize its current AHLTA system.
Officials at Maine Medical Center, (MMC) the largest medical center in the state, has opened its new simulation lab, a virtual environment designed to train medical students and staff.
New service-wide dental EHR plans links to Army and Navy systems en route to global connectivity.
Office of Personnel Management plans to analyze claims data to track federal employee health trends and to reduce costs.