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Cleveland Clinic Chief Information Officer C. Martin Harris, MD, and Peter Neupert, corporate vice president of Microsoft Health Solutions Group are talking about a collaboration that is, in Harris's words, "fundamentally changing the paradigm of chronic disease management."
In the opening keynote at last month's HIMSS10 conference and exhibition, Sprint Nextel CEO Dan Hesse put forth the call.
Forty-eight upstate New York hospitals earned more than $22 million in quality improvement incentive payments from Excellus BlueCross BlueShield as part of the health insurer's Hospital Performance Incentive Program.
The Mississippi Coastal Health Information Exchange (MSCHIE) has launched Phase 2 of its deployment, which will expand services to four additional health systems, launch a community outreach training program and integrate with additional electronic health record vendors.
A fundamental part of delivering good medical care is getting the diagnosis right. Electronic health records can help, according to new research published last week in The New England Journal of Medicine.
"Aetna is dedicated to helping people achieve health and financial security, and we believe fostering a healthy environment is an important part of this mission," reads the health insurer's environmental policy statement. "We are committed to limiting our environmental impact by reducing our energy consumption and the use of other resources… because we recognize the impact of a clean environment on the health of our members."
American Well, which offers Web-based physician visits for members of health plans in Hawaii and Minnesota, has landed another contract closer to home.
NaviNet, the country's largest real-time healthcare communications network, has announced a partnership with major health insurers in New Jersey to build a multi-payer portal as a "one-stop shop" for physicians to communicate directly with an array of health plans.
Twitter has the potential to spread misinformation about health and medicine, according to a new study that examined Twitter updates about antibiotics.
While the healthcare reform law does not focus on wellness, expect this area to grow, said E. David Hetz, cofounder and managing director of Cutlass Capital. Hetz spoke on a panel last week at the Health Technology Investment Forum.