Data Warehousing
Emdeon, a provider of healthcare revenue and payment cycle management solutions, has been awarded a subcontract from CSC to provide IT services on behalf of the U.S. Department of Defense Pharmacy Operations Directorate for the Pharmacy Data Transaction Service (PDTS).
HP Enterprise Services has been awarded a task order worth up to $26 million by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to maintain its Integrated Data Repository (IDR) and provide data quality services to improve the accuracy of Medicare payment data.
The Department of Health and Human Services has awarded nearly $49 million to help 48 states and the District of Columbia plan for health insurance exchanges, including assessing existing information technology systems and infrastructure.
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust is rolling out new healthcare data and storage management solutions, developed by Woburn, Mass.-based BridgeHead Software, as it implements plans around improving operational efficiency, cost savings and patient care.
BridgeHead Software and Dell have collaborated on a project that offers hospitals a new way to store their medical and administrative data in a centralized repository.
In a deal that adds a host of services to its online benefits shopping, management and enrollment platform, Benefitfocus announced mid-August its acquisition of Benefit Informatics Inc., a benefit information management company specializing in data analytics, forecasting, financial analysis and data warehousing.
First there was Yale-New Haven Hospital, the 944-bed primary teaching hospital for the Yale School of Medicine. There is also the children’s hospital and the psychiatric hospital. Most recently, the health system added the Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven, a $467 million, 14-story paragon of patient care and safety, of environmental virtue – and of information technology.
One of the major goals of the federal government's push for nationwide electronic medical record adoption is to create an information network where "health data can flow freely, privately, and securely to the places where they are needed." So far, this is proving to be a challenge for the nation's hospitals and doctors.
Community health centers that deal with some of the nation's most disadvantaged people often don't have much money to spend on IT. With that in mind, Ingenix is looking to lend a helping hand.
Perhaps it's waiting on the back burner but ICD-10 did not make the cut of health IT's most important projects for 2010 and 2011, at least not among healthcare executives.