The MRO Corp., a King of Prussia, Pa.-based developer of shared-service, release-of-information and audit tracking systems, has announced that the Wellspan Health System, with more than 40 locations in Pennsylvania and Maryland, and the Western Maryland Health System will implement the company's Audit Tracker Online.
Benefit Administrative Systems, LLC, a Homewood, Ill.-based national employee benefits administrator, has integrated VIIAD Systems' Health Ticket platform into its integrated health plan management solution. Health Ticket is an on-demand, real-time electronic identification, direction and PPO compliance technology.
The TriZetto Group, Inc., of Newport Beach, Calif., has announced the availability of a new personal health record that will be licensed at no charge to TriZetto's qualifying healthcare payer customers for use by their providers and members.
Kronos, Inc., a developer of workforce management solutions, is using the Bio-SnapON biometric software solution from M2SYS Technology with its time and attendance applications, allowing customers to record employee time data using a single finger scan.
ClaimTrust, a Murfreesboro, Tenn.-based provider of revenue cycle tools and services for hospitals, has announced that Signature Healthcare Brockton Hospital in Brockton, Mass., will implement the new InSight Revenue Cycle Solution product suite.
Initiate Systems, Inc. of Chicago has introduced the Initiate Payer Data Management solution, designed to help healthcare payers reduce costs and improve administrative efficiencies through streamlined claims processing.
Qwest Communications International, Inc. has been selected by the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association as a preferred provider for voice and data services. Under the two-year, multimillion-dollar deal, Qwest will offer a broad range of solutions to BCBSA's Chicago headquarters and its member Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies around the nation.
SynaptiCore, a Houston-based healthcare IT consulting firm, has announced that it is offering hospitals new milestone-based consulting agreements that link payments for services during an engagement directly to the completion of specific outcomes, rather than following traditional "time and material" contracts.
Greencastle Consulting, a Malvern, Pa.-based project management and consulting services firm, has unveiled ARRA Readiness Assessment, a new service designed to allow hospitals and health systems to assess their readiness with regard to the "meaningful use" provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), as well as their ability to comply with the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act.
Blood, Sweat Capital LLC, a private equity firm that provides start-up funding and management support for innovative healthcare service ideas, has launched in Philadelphia.
Himahealth, based in San Juan, Puerto Rico, is making its hospitals available as a medical travel destination for U.S. residents.