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Intel will expand the availability of its remote monitoring technology, the Intel Health Guide, across Europe, the company announced Wednesday at the World Health Congress.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield-initiated anti-fraud investigations have recovered or saved more than $510 million in 2009, according to the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, which credits the success in part to technology dedicated to anti-fraud efforts.
Office of the National Coordinator sets aside $30 million for two additional health IT model communities.
By early July, the Office of the National Coordinator will announce the winners of 11 contracts for developing a health information exchange framework based on a model originated by federal homeland security agencies for sharing sensitive information over the Internet.
Plan calls for defining a minimum common set of patient data to enable e-health across European Union by 2012.
The Office of the National Coordinator will award 11 contracts to develop XML-based information sharing framework.
The Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) announced a new round of two additional Beacon awards totaling $30.3 million on Wednesday.
Health insurers, on average, are paying physicians seven days faster and denying 12 to 18 percent fewer claims than last year, according to the fifth annual PayerView Rankings athenahealth and Physicians Practice released Wednesday. The findings show the potential of increased automation and transparency to reduce administrative costs and increase the speed of reimbursements.
Medical transcription technology is to blame for the loss of 30 jobs at the largest hospital in Vermont. Officials at Fletcher Allen Health Care, a non-profit, academic medical center in Burlington, Vt., made the announcement on Tuesday.
Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise forms partnership with pathologists to pursue lab device interoperability.