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Physicians taking part in a two-year medical home pilot program will soon have access to new technology designed to help them identify patient care opportunities.
Premier healthcare alliance, which encompasses 2,300 not-for profit hospitals and health systems and more than 63,000 other healthcare organizations, addressed healthcare reform in a letter to Congressional leadership Jan. 12.
The Baylor Health Care System, based in Dallas, has selected a vendor to manage the automated processing of nearly 300,000 invoices per year across its 12-hospital system.
The Food and Drug Administration awarded a $72 million contract to Harvard Pilgrim Health Care to develop a test version of the FDA's Sentinel system, an electronic network designed to sift health data for threats to medical product safety.
Personal health records could become an important part of the 'meaningful use of IT' provision for federal stimulus funding because they foster better patient engagement through health IT, according to an industry analyst.
Since the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), PHRs have become an important tool for engagement, said Lynne Dunbrack, program director for Health Industry Insights.
Medical Mutual of Ohio began offering Intuit's Quicken Health Expense Tracker with Bill Pay capability to its 1.6 million members in October.
While it's too early to track use, the tool's value lies in educating members on their healthcare bills and strengthening network provider relations, as well as the co payer's and market differentiation as an early adopter, said Robert Mau, MMO's vice president of e-business.
The Hudson Health Plan, a nonprofit HMO serving New York's Hudson River Valley, has added more functionality and relaunched its Web site.
By taking a short questionnaire, visitors can determine their eligibility for public health insurance and schedule an appointment online to meet with a marketing representative. More than 100 appointments have been made since the site went live in early November, said Georganne Chapin, HHP's president and CEO.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued a notice of proposed rulemaking that outlines provisions governing the Medicare and Medicaid EHR incentive programs, including a proposed definition for the central concept of “meaningful use” of EHR technology.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued a notice of proposed rulemaking that outlines provisions governing the Medicare and Medicaid EHR incentive programs, including a proposed definition for the central concept of “meaningful use” of EHR technology.
National health plans Aetna and Wellpoint are the first to earn certification for electronically exchanging administrative data using the Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare's Committee on Operating Rules for Information Exchange (CORE) Phase II rules