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By Eric Wicklund | 12:20 pm | September 28, 2009
Much like the federal government’s program targeting old automobiles, MedPlexus is setting its sights on old electronic health records and practice management system
By Eric Wicklund | 12:15 pm | September 28, 2009
Just two weeks after announcing the launch of its own electronic medical records platform, Dell has acquired the IT solutions provider to deliver and maintain the platform.
By Patty Enrado | 12:11 pm | September 28, 2009
Traditional disease management has historically been treated and tracked by condition with separate departmental IT systems.
By Patty Enrado | 12:03 pm | September 28, 2009
Prior to the 2008 passage of the Long-Term Care Community Choices Act, Tennessee was spending 99 percent of its Medicaid long-term care dollars on nursing homes instead of home-based services.
By Patty Enrado | 11:57 am | September 28, 2009
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield’s $100 million integrated claims system and supporting software implementation was completed last August on budget and within a year of rollout.
By Patty Enrado | 11:52 am | September 28, 2009
Independence Blue Cross (IBC) plans to increase the type and sophistication of clinical alerts that it has been delivering to its network physicians since April.
By Bernie Monegain | 11:42 am | September 28, 2009
Children’s Hospital Boston has launched a partnership to enable patients to collect health data from two major sites of care into a single personally controlled health record (PCHR).
By Bernie Monegain | 11:40 am | September 28, 2009
United Physicians of Charleston, one of the largest independent physician associations in the country, is zipping up its communications in order to achieve its goal of clinical integration.
By Kyle Hardy | 11:35 am | September 28, 2009
A new report predicts that by 2019, 90 percent of physician practices are expected to be implementing IT.
By Eric Wicklund | 11:08 am | September 28, 2009
The Xerox Corporation is following in the footsteps of HP and Dell with Monday's announced acquisition of Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. for about $6.4 billion in cash and stock.