The Healthcare Billing & Management Association will hold its 2011 Spring Educational Conference April 3-5 in San Antonio, Texas.
BancTec, a Dallas-based developer of transaction automation and outsourcing solutions, has unveiled Healthcare Remittance Automation, an outsourced service for providers, aggregators and financial institutions to automate and optimize healthcare payment workflow.
Passport Health Communications, of Franklin, Tenn., has released eCare NEXT, a revenue cycle platform designed to automate patient and payer data verification workflow in hospitals. The company has also announced that Bayfront Medical Center in St. Petersburg, Fla., will be the beta site for Passport’s newest addition to its eCare Patient Access Suite, OrderRite with Precertification.
Med-Vantage, a California-based developer of consumer transparency and provider performance management solutions, has unveiled the Member Out-of-Pocket Cost Estimator, a Web-based cost analysis module designed to help health plan members better understand healthcare costs. BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina is the first customer to launch the solution, delivering it as a stand-alone tool as well as integrating members’ costs into its Doctor and Hospital Finder.
Automatic Data Processing, Inc., a Roseland, N.J.-based provider of human resource, payroll and benefits administration services, has acquired AdvancedMD, a Salt Lake City-based provider of practice management and electronic health records solutions targeted at small and mid-sized medical practices.
QuadraMed, based in Reston, Va., has announced the general availability of Access Quality Manager, a rules-based, workflow-driven registration audit tool designed to enable hospital registrars to identify and correct patient data errors occurring during the initial registration process.
Medical Learning, Inc., a St. Paul, Minn.-based healthcare publishing and consulting firm specializing in coding, compliance, reimbursement and revenue cycle, has completed its merger with Panacea Healthcare Solutions, a financial consulting and software development company specializing in hospital coding, compliance, reimbursement and revenue cycle systems and solutions. The combined company will be called Panacea Healthcare Solutions and will be based in St. Paul.
The Bellwether League, Inc., a Schaumburg, Ill.-based healthcare supply chain hall of fame, is seeking nominations for its Honoree Class of 2011. The deadline is Friday, April 1. Nominations are available for Education & Media, Supply Chain Management, Group Purchasing, Supplier and Consultant.
Novation, an Irving, Texas-based supply contracting company serving members of VHA, the University HealthSystem Consortium and Provista, has awarded agreements to Becton Dickinson of Franklin Lakes, N.J., B. Braun Medical of Bethlehem, Pa., and Smiths Medical North America of Norwell, Mass., for I.V. catheters. The company has also announced that Community Medical Center in Fresno, Calif., was able to save nearly $700,000 in total joint replacements through the use of Novation’s supply chain data and analytics services.
Allscripts, based in Chicago, has announced that UK HealthCare, the patient care operations of the University of Kentucky, will deploy the Allscripts Electronic Health Record and Practice Management solutions to more than 6,000 physicians, nurses, pharmacists and other healthcare providers.
TECSYS, a Toronto-based developer of supply chain management software, has added topVOX, a provider of voice technology, to its healthcare offerings.
Boston Software Systems, based in Boston, has launched Cognauto for the McKesson STAR healthcare information system. Built on the Microsoft.Net framework, the Cognauto platform is designed to improve workflow automation and systems integration.
Encoda, a Philadelphia-based healthcare IT company, has announced that Texas Orthopedics, Sports and Rehabilitation Associates of Austin, Texas, will implement the company’s revenue cycle automation tool, designed to connect practices directly with payers.
Medefile International, Inc., a Boca Raton, Fla.-based developer of portable electronic medical record management solutions, has engaged the Elite Financial Communications Group to manage investor relations and corporate communications.
T-System, a Dallas-based developer of clinical, business and IT solutions for emergency medicine, has launched T SystemEV STAT, in conjunction with the Apogee Informatics Corporation. The new solution builds on the company’s automated emergency department platform by aggregating real-time data intelligence to influence healthcare providers’ decisions about patient flow, staffing and resources.
MEDHOST, an Addison, Texas-based provider of healthcare throughput and emergency department software, has unveiled MEDHOST HD, a new house-wide process management solution designed to give hospital administrators a clearer picture of operations.
Elsevier/MEDai is teaming with dbMotion to deliver analytics solutions to the healthcare payer and provider markets. The alliance will combine Elsevier/MEDai’s analytics solutions for payers, ambulatory centers, physicians and hospitals with dbMotion’s semantic interoperability platform, which aggregates and organizes healthcare information from disparate IT and clinical systems.
Pegasystems, a Cambridge, Mass.-based developer of business process management solutions, has announced an upgrade to its Customer Process Manager for Healthcare CRM offering.
Shared Health, a Chattanooga, Tenn.-based developer of health information technology solutions, has launched version 8 of its Clinical Xchange platform, designed to allow clinicians and hospitals access comprehensive data from a patient’s entire healthcare team.
The Market Center Management Company has announced that a China pavilion will open at the new Nashville Medical Trade Center, the first permanent showroom in the United States for healthcare products and services from China and the first of a planned series of international showrooms.
ImplementHIT, based in Las Vegas, has launched OptimizeHIT, a new electronic health record e-learning solution designed for small practices of 20 or fewer physicians.
Karos Health, an Ontario, Canada-based developer of health information exchange solutions, has announced a partnership with HIPAAT, Inc., a provider of consent management and auditing solutions to the healthcare industry. The collaboration is designed to enhance privacy controls on Karos’ Rialto platform for clinical information exchange and storage.
EDIMS, a Livingston, N.J.-based provider of interoperable emergency department information management systems, has released EDIMS QuickNav, an electronic health record solution designed to automate ED documentation, order entry, patient tracking and charge capture.
Siemens Healthcare of Malvern, Pa., has announced the availability of version 3.2 of Soarian Clinicals, designed to help healthcare organizations achieve meaningful use of electronic health records.
Cardinal Health, a based in Dublin, Ohio, has announced the launch of a joint program between its P4 Healthcare business and Hartford, Conn.-based Aetna that’s designed to identify and promote the best clinical practices to improve the overall quality and cost of cancer treatment. P4 Healthcare and Aetna will establish regional committees in Florida and Maryland to identify evidence-based treatment regimens, or clinical pathways, for delivering patient care initially for breast, lung and colon cancers.
Sunquest Information Systems of Tucson, Ariz., has announced that Sunquest Laboratory version 6.3 has been certified as an EHR module and 2011/2012-compliant by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology.
Wolters Kluwer Health, based in Philadelphia, has announced that Riverside Community Hospital in Riverside, Calif., has selected ProVation MD software for gastroenterological procedure documentation and coding.
DataGen, based in Albany, N.Y., has announced that the Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association, Hawaii Healthcare Information Corporation and Missouri Hospital Association will purchase the company’s KeySTATS healthcare data analytics products, which are designed to provide information on legislative actions that affect operations, particularly concerning the Medicare system.
ScheduleSource, a Louisville, Colo.-based developer of online workforce management solutions, has unveiled TeamWork 3.0, designed to address the shift and vacation bid process for shift-based employees of healthcare and long-term care organizations who are assigned to work patterns on a rotation over a number of weeks or months.
Chartwise Medical Systems of Wakefield, R.I., has added Advanced Reporting capabilities to the company’s ChartWise:CDI clinical documentation software.
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