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DC Chartered Health Plan has begun implementing MEDecision’s care management technology to service its growing Medicaid population.
WellMed Medical Management is implementing ikaSystems' ikaEnterprise to create a system that will interface with all its clinical tools and best processes and strategies.
Universal American's members enrolled in its Medicare Advantage plan that carries the Community CCRx Prescription Drug Plan will be able to participate in a new patient care program.
Personal health records could save $21 billion annually on a national level, asserts the latest research from the Center for Information Technology Leadership (CITL), a nonprofit research center based at Partners HealthCare System in Boston.
A new study finds physicians who use an e-prescribing system with formulary decision support can boost drug cost savings.
Four Federally Qualified Health Centers in Montana are poised to connect electronically.
Neuroscientist Eve Edelstein, senior vice president of research and design at HMC Architects of Ontario, Calif., and a visiting scholar in the biological sciences at University of California-San Diego, is using neuroscience and architecture to explore the effects of hospital design on patients, visitors and staff.
A recent internal survey conducted by George Washington University Hospital shows employee satisfaction with hospital communication is up by 33 percent, thanks in part to new ways of communicating.
Editor Bernie Monegain interviews Holt Anderson, executive director of the North Carolina Healthcare Information & Communications Alliance, Inc.
By now most people in healthcare recognize the benefits of an electronic medical record systems to patient safety and care quality. Historically the costs (both hard and soft) of acquiring and implementing these solutions have limited widespread adoption in the physician office setting.