The Authentidate Holding Corp. of Berkeley Heights, N.J., a vendor of secure enterprise workflow management applications, has announced that American HomePatient, Inc., one of the nation's largest home medical equipment providers, is realizing significant improvement in its operations by using the company's Inscrybe Healthcare. American HomePatient has also signed up as the first customer for Authentidate's new Inscrybe eOrder module.
Global Works Systems of Colchester, Vt., a provider of software and service solutions to users of premium healthcare systems, has announced a partnership with GE Healthcare to provide a complete solution for outsourcing patient statements produced by GE's Centricity Business Solution, formerly IDX Flowcast
Greenway Medical Technologies of Carrollton, Ga. has announced that its flagship EHR solution, PrimeSuite, integrates all 74 quality measure set forth in the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative established by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
GE Healthcare Financial Services has provided a $20 million revolving line of credit to Centric Health Finance, LLC. The La Jolla, Calif.-based company will use the loan for general corporate purposes, including growing its VirtualPayor business, which provides specialty physician practices with an integrated solution that collapses their accounts receivables, consolidates third-party payers into a single source for immediate payment and streamlines billing and collections.
New York-based JPMorgan Chase, a full-service provider of cash management, trade finance and treasury options, has announced that it is the first financial services company to receive accreditation by the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC) for its Healthcare Link business, reinforcing its position as a provider of automated claims payment processing solutions to the healthcare industry.
CareAdvantage, a medical data management company, has been retained by The Segal Company and Sibson Consulting, its strategic HR division, to serve as Segal's and Sibson Consulting's data analytics partner in providing sophisticated medical data analyses and reporting to clients.
Westminster, Colo.-based GHX has announced that it has extended the functionality of its Contract Center to include a collaborative contract commitment module that can be used by all providers, manufacturers, distributors and group purchasing organizations in the healthcare supply chain.
Medical Present Value, Inc. of Austin, Texas, a provider of financial tools and expert services to manage payor contracts and audit reimbursement, has been selected by the Portland Clinic, a Portland, Ore.-based healthcare network, to monitor the accuracy of its reimbursements and identify potential underpayments.
Flagship Global Health has announced the availability of a new executive health insurance program, ArmadaCare Executive Health, to help companies protect themselves from the impact of health issues among key employees.
RAM Technologies, a software vendor serving the administrative needs of customers in the healthcare industry, has announced that Preferred Health, Inc. of San Juan, Puerto Rico has selected its HEALTHsuite and eHealthsuite software applications to streamline operations and improve customer service for its health insurance business.
CareMedic Systems, Inc., a St. Petersburg, Fla.-based provider of financial management systems, has announced the release of OptimizeAR Consolidated Payment Management, currently in beta testing at New York Presbyterian Hospital. The new system is designed to fit seamlessly within the company's set of revenue cycle tools.
Empowered Benefits, LLC of Charlotte, N.C. has launched version 1.1 of EmpowerCareCost, billed as one of the first price transparency products to provide patient-specific out-of-pocket estimates for hospitals, physician practices and their patients.
The Foresight Corporation of Dublin, Ohio, has announced the June 2007 availability of Transaction Insight (TI) 3.1, an updated transaction management platform for the healthcare field.
Prime Health Services, a Nashville, Tenn.-based national Preferred Provider Organization (PPO), has released the Renovo System, which it describes as "a revolutionary Group Health medical repricing system to expedite the entire repricing process."
Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. of Dallas has announced a three-year, $67 million contract re-bid award with the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing to continue operating the state's Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS). ACS has operated the MMIS since 1996. The contract was extended in 2001 and re-bid in 2006.
Premier, Inc. of Charlotte, N.C. has announced new capabilities for SpendAdvisor Pharmacy Spend, the company's pharmacy-specific spend management decision-support tool.