Mike Miliard
ProdigoXchange aims to drive efficiency for healthcare purchasers by providing automated email reminders that help track supplier acknowledgments of dispatched purchase orders.
First announced May 2, the $156 million acquisition is aimed toward emerging accountable care organizations (ACOs) and will see Omnicell and MTS working to integrate medication management across the broader spectrum of care.
In early April, the National Quality Forum (NQF) approved for endorsement several sets of quality measures, addressing areas such as perinatal and renal care and how resources are put to use in care delivery.
Thomson Reuters will sell its healthcare business to an affiliate of Veritas Capital for $1.25 billion in cash, the company announced Monday.
Speaking at the HIMSS Conference & Exhibition in Las Vegas earlier this year, National Quality Forum President and CEO Janet Corrigan said quality measures are essential tools to help "move forward in building high-value health systems," and to bring about "fundamental reform" across the care delivery spectrum.
Everything's bigger in Texas. And not just its longhorn steer, oil derricks and ten-gallon hats. The Lone Star State's cost of care, number of uninsured residents and controversies over reproductive rights are all pretty big too.
A new PwC report on clinical informatics shows the key to those benefits is for providers to use informatics to engage patients in managing their own health.
The advisory board will specifically focus on medical industry trends, clinical imperatives, regulatory considerations, privacy concerns and patient and clinician expectations around Watson technology and how it can be incorporated into clinician workflows, according to IBM.
Based on existing overall cost estimates for ICD-10 from multiple sources, officials estimate a year-long delay of ICD-10 could cost the industry anywhere from $475 million to more than $4 billion.
Universal American Corp. announced Wednesday plans to acquire APS Healthcare for $227.5 million.