Financial/Revenue Cycle Management
A hospital in Illinois known as "Good Sam," and a healthcare consulting group in Florida, are among the seven 2010 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award winners. Information technology is at the core of the operations for both winners.
IBM and Aetna subsidiary ActiveHealth Management, alongside Medens Corp., will deliver cloud services to help physicians in Puerto Rico share and exchange health information and make more accurate decisions about patient care.
The TriZetto Group has announced plans to enhance its care management and value-based solutions for health plan members and their providers through a strategic partnership with clinical analytics developer MEDai.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has opened the doors to its innovation center, where it plans to test models of coordinated care for patients as well shared payments for healthcare providers in various real-world settings.
VHA, Inc., is putting its nationwide comparative database to work to help hospitals cut millions of dollars in wasted expenses from their high-cost cardiology, orthopedics and spine service line procedures through a new "Door-to-Discharge" program.
Healthcare providers tend to lean toward vendors they know when looking for help with their RAC audits, according to a new report from research firm KLAS. Vendors with strong revenue cycle, health information management or case management install bases are leveraging their previous business relationships with customers to win RAC solution contracts.
The 120 network hospitals and 30-plus physician groups participating in Blue Shield of California's (BSC) claims transparency program continue to reap shorter claims cycle times and fewer denials, resulting in significant savings.
Nuance Communications announced Wednesday that the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI), a nonprofit organization made up of 60 medical groups and six health plans throughout Minnesota and surrounding states, has licensed its RadPort decision support technology to help ensure patients only receive medically appropriate diagnostic imaging tests.
eClinicalWorks, maker of ambulatory clinical systems, has announced eClinicalWorks Version 9.0. This single product version provides on-demand access to all eClinicalWorks complimentary solutions, thereby creating a comprehensive EHR for enhancing and improving the quality of care for patients.
Cerner Corp. beat expectations for its third-quarter profits, which were up 26 percent - a performance spurred by sales fueled by healthcare providers striving to meet meaningful use criteria.