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As they work to consummate the merger between them first announced in June, Chicago-based Allscripts and Atlanta-based Eclipsys have announced investor meetings this month in their respective cities.
It's everywhere you look: in movie theaters, with films such as Avatar and Toy Story 3; and even, slowly but surely, on TV, with broadcast stations like ESPN 3D and state of the art televisions such as Sony's Bravia LCD 3D. Suddenly, what was once a novelty is becoming the norm.
The TriZetto Group recently announced a partnership with professors who founded the value-based insurance design (VBID) movement to develop chronic-condition templates as options for healthcare payer customers of TriZetto’s Value-Based Benefits Solution.
In a partnership aimed at helping both insurance carriers and employers, out-of-network pharmacy benefit management (PBM) specialist Progressive Medical and StoneRiver Pharmacy Solutions will make available a combined electronic service to aid in correctly identifying payers for out-of-network pharmacy benefits.
President Obama's recess appointment of Harvard Medical School professor Donald Berwick, MD, to lead the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid is drawing praise from healthcare IT leaders across the country even as his detractors paint him as a champion for socialism and healthcare rationing.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida launched its new mobile web site less than four weeks ago, but early tracking reveals “encouraging” usage for both members and nonmembers.
New rules would help clear the way for a wave of new organizations to participate in NHIN.
Information technology is an integral part of the agreement between Commonwealth Hematology-Oncology (CHO), the largest community-based private cancer practice in New England, and Boston-based Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), which seeks to provide cancer patients with greater resources, closer to home.
Electronic health record systems could give rise to increased liability for healthcare providers, according to professors from Case Western Reserve University.
A small pilot study at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, found that sending text reminders to adolescent diabetes patients about their insulin treatments improved treatment adherence and blood glucose levels.