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The Kansas Health Policy Authority (KHPA) has extended a $119 million two-year technology services contract with HP Enterprise Services. The extension, which includes two one-year options, will allow the state to meet its budget without eliminating staff or reducing customer service.
Many doctors are deeply skeptical about the future of medicine, according to a recent survey conducted by athenahealth, the provider of Web-based practice management tools, and Sermo, the largest online community for physicians.
Healthcare IT leaders are hailing President Obama's nomination of Donald Berwick, MD, to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as a signal of the administration's commitment to quality.
The Hawaii Medical Service Association (HMSA), the Blue Cross Blue Shield plan of the Aloha State, will become the first health plan to deploy American Well's new Online Care Team Edition. The new service will bring live, on-demand specialist care consultations into primary care docs' exam rooms – reducing the delay, inconvenience and cost associated with the traditional patient referral process.
The TriZetto Group and 3M Health Information Systems announced an agreement last month that gives TriZetto certain exclusivity to include 3M's ICD-10 Code Translation Tool with several new services for payers under its TriZetto Advantage 10 Services.
Revenues from remote patient monitoring using mobile networks will rise to almost $1.9 billion globally by 2014, according to Juniper Research.
Voice/speech recognition systems evolving to meet EMR, documentation and coding challenges.
With some regional extension centers (RECs) poised to open this month, small physician practices will soon have access to the help they need to qualify for meaningful use bonuses under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Ninety percent of U.S. healthcare leaders and 84 percent of global healthcare leaders recently surveyed by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) say information technology will be a "key factor" for transforming healthcare today and in the decade to come.
Consumers engage more in their own healthcare when they have access to information through personal health records, according to a new survey on consumers and health IT.