Healthcare Finance Staff
Hawaii Island Beacon Community has awarded a $680,000 contract to North Hawaii Community Hospital (NHCH) to implement a health information exchange throughout the North Hawaii region. Implementation has begun and will continue through 2012.
The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) has announced the first six provider-based accountable care organizations (ACOs) to seek accreditation from the ACO Accreditation program NCQA launched in November.
Humedica, a clinical analytics company, has introduced a new predictive analytic model to identify patients at high-risk for a congestive heart failure (CHF) hospitalization. Humedica executives say it can help reduce hospital admissions among the sickest, most costly patients in the country.
Just a week after its purchase of Medical Data Express, the TriZetto Group announced Thursday it would acquire Kocsis Consulting Group (KCG), a Michigan-based firm that provides software training, compliance and change management solutions for payers.
Career Quest Learning Centers, in Lansing, Mich., has introduced a new Health Information Technology program to meet employer demands for new workers to handle federally mandated electronic health records. Classes begin Feb. 1 at Michigan campuses in Lansing, Jackson and Kalamazoo.
Universal American Corp. announced Wednesday that it will acquire APS Healthcare, which provides population health solutions for Medicaid programs and other health plans, for $227.5 million.
"In 2012, meaningful use will soar," National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Farzad Mostashari asserted at the Jan. 10 meeting of the Health IT Policy Committee.
The Medicare and Medicaid electronic health record program has paid more than $2.5 billion to physicians and hospitals in incentive payments for all of 2011, with December contributing to the steep growth curve.
Health Net, Inc. subsidiary Health Net Life Insurance Co. announced it has agreed to sell its Medicare stand-alone prescription drug plan (PDP) business to a subsidiary of CVS Caremark for $160 million.
A recently published survey from industry consultant HTMS, an Emdeon company, and the Managed Care Executives Group (MCEG) showed that only 4 percent of small and mid-sized health plans consider health reform to be a threat to their business.