U.S. Preventive Medicine of Jacksonville, Fla. has announced that the City of Tempe, Ariz. has extended its contract with the company to provide disease management services to employees with asthma or diabetes who are covered under the city’s PPO medical plan. Under the new contract, employees with evidence of cardiovascular disease, including hypertension and hyperlipidemia, will also be eligible to participate.
Medical Present Value (MPV), Inc., an Austin, Texas-based developer of automated payer contract management processes, has announced that the following five academic groups have selected the company’s Phynance application to monitor payer compliance: University of Minnesota Physicians in Minneapolis, Jefferson University Physicians in Philadelphia, University of Toledo Physicians, LLC in Toledo, Ohio, Children’s University Medical Group in Seattle, and the University of South Alabama Health Services Foundation, based in Mobile, Ala.
HealthWare Systems, an Elgin, Ill.-based provider of software designed to deal with workflow processes within the revenue cycle, has announced the launch of ActiveCHECK, which is designed to promote registration accuracy though integration with the company’s ActiveWARE platform.
Lawson Software of St. Paul, Minn. has announced a partnership with The Breakaway Group of Denver to expand the content and offerings for the Lawson Learning Accelerator, a simulation-based training system that supports Lawson’s ERP applications. In addition, The Breakaway Group will develop a library of role- and task-based learning simulations to train users on Lawson S3 applications.
Convio, based in Austin, Texas, has partnered with the philanthropic service company Changing Our World, Inc. to produce “The HIPAA Effect: Considerations for Fundraising After the Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act,” a downloadable guide to assist healthcare organizations thinking about the ramifications of HIPAA in fundraising.
Hayes Management Consulting of Newton, Mass. has announced that Ohio State University Physicians, Inc. will use the company’s MDaudit software to automate administrative compliance audit tasks, thus improving audit productivity.
Cielo MedSolutions of Ann Arbor, Mich. has been awarded a Phase I Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant from the National Cancer Institute. In a partnership arranged with the University of Michigan Health System Department of Family Medicine, Cielo will apply the grant funding to design an ambulatory clinical quality improvement systems based upon the company’s Cielo Clinic product.
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