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The Department of Health and Human Services has awarded a two-year $6 million contract to Arlington, Va.-based Stanley, Inc. to provide operation and infrastructure support for the Nationwide Health Information Network.
The Health Information Exchange (HIE) market is the Wild West right now.
Proventys, Newton, Mass.-based maker of advanced decision support technologies, has entered into an exclusive collaboration with the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) to introduce the Proventys CDS Oncology system.
L.A. Care Health Plan has approved $153,000 in funding for the Western Health Information Network (WHIN) to help connect a minimum of 10 Los Angeles County community clinics to an existing health information exchange network.
Finding a durable business model to keep afloat financially is one of the biggest challenges facing health information exchanges as the federal and state grants that funded their start up and early development expire.
An information technology overhaul planned for the University of Michigan Health System will affect care providers and administrators in every U-M hospital, clinic and office, according to officials.
A Health and Human Services Department advisory panel has taken the first steps to enabling people who are enrolled in federal and state health and social services programs to easily find out if they are eligible for benefits from other programs.
Verizon has announced a new health info exchange initiative, available via the cloud, to enable the sharing of patient information between healthcare systems on incompatible IT platforms.
As they work to consummate the merger between them first announced in June, Chicago-based Allscripts and Atlanta-based Eclipsys have announced investor meetings next month in their respective cities.
IBM announced plans Thursday to enlist some of its leading scientists and technologists to help medical practitioners and payers provide high-quality, evidence-based care to patients.