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September 10 - 11 - The Northwest Medical Informatics Symposium, Spokane, Wash.

The University of California at Merced’s Valley Telehealth Partnership is too new to have made an impact on the physician and nurse shortages in the San Joaquin Valley.

BRIGGS DEPLOYS DATA COLLECTION SYSTEM AIMED AT ACCURACY DES MOINES, IA – Briggs, a healthcare provider based in Des Moines, Iowa, has implemented a new electronic mobile data collection system that is designed to enable healthcare agencies to improve the accuracy of recorded data.

Healthcare IT company Healthland, which focuses on the small community and critical access hospitals market, has completed its acquisition of American Healthnet, based in Omaha, Neb.

Claims management has traditionally been an area of tedium, conflict, confusion and aggravation for healthcare providers. Getting claims paid by the insurance company hinged on every “i” being dotted and every “t” being crossed.

Four months after declaring its intention to enter the American healthcare market, Australia’s iSoft has found a U.S.-based partner.

One of the bigger names in communications is expanding its healthcare presence.

Health information exchanges often involve organizations with little in common – sometimes a recipe for failure. Transforming Healthcare in Connecticut Communities (THICC) hopes to change that by bringing a key ingredient to the table.

The 45 physicians of Northern California Medical Associates aren’t interested in all the bells and whistles that come with a full-fledged electronic medical record. They want something that stays out of the way and lets them work.

America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) has selected Deloitte to be a provider of subject matter experience, knowledge and training content related to ICD-10 and HIPAA 5010 compliance learning programs for the upcoming year. These regulations involve the coding system that doctors and hospitals use to code diagnoses and procedure information on medical claims and other fundamental health transactions.