Healthcare Finance Staff

The Measure Applications Partnership (MAP), a public-private partnership convened by the National Quality Forum, released two reports on Tuesday that pointed to specific opportunities for more coordinated approaches to making healthcare safer and enhancing clinical performance.

Mike Murrill Chief Financial Officer Adventist Bolingbrook Hospital Bolingbrook, Ill.

HP Enterprise Services announced the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) has signed a renewal service agreement to manage the state's Medicaid Management Information System. The $172 million, three-year extension will help the state transition to a managed care environment.


Interactions Corporation and Humana will expand their partnership, through which Humana deploys Interactions' voice portal technology to streamline member enrollment for Medicare Part D benefits.

HealthPort, which touts itself as the nation's largest provider of release of information services and audit management and tracking technology, announced Monday that is the first Health Information Handler (HIH) to successfully transmit records via the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) electronic submission of medical documentation (esMD) gateway for information exchange from healthcare providers.

David Palmer is the actor I remember best for playing the president of the United States in one of the Jack Bauer "24″ series. You probably know him better as a spokesman for Allstate. In one commercial he is standing in front of a town that looks like it has been devastated by a tornado. He begins by saying, "It only took two minutes for this town to be destroyed," and he ends by saying "Are you in good hands?" Allstate also has a "mayhem" series, featuring all kinds of things that can go wrong.

Will accountable care organizations follow the lead of HIEs in analyzing data across participating providers, or surpass them? In this series, we are examining ways health IT can best support the goals of accountable care organizations (ACOs) for health reform.

Medicaid managed care and other health plans should prepare for anticipated churn of members who will likely fall into and out of eligibility of expanded Medicaid and subsidized coverage once health insurance exchanges launch in 2014.

A new initiative whereby Medicare will work with commercial and state health insurance plans to offer additional support to primary care doctors aimed at improving care coordination for patients was kicked off on Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) is collaborating with health technology company Allscripts to roll out electronic health records to more than 750 North Carolina physicians, including more than 150 physicians in 39 free clinics, allowing them to connect to the statewide health information exchange.