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Not-for-profit HealthInfoNet, the state of Maine’s health information exchange, and the designated Regional Extension Center for the state, has received a $4.7 million federal grant to help providers adopt electronic health records and achieve meaningful use.
MEDS-ED Link, a project of the Northern Virginia Regional Health Information Organization (NoVaRHIOsm) in conjunction with Inova Health System and GE Healthcare, recently launched to provide emergency docs at the hospital with access to patient medication histories.
Christiana Care Health System a private, not-for-profit tertiary-care hospital system with locations in Wilmington and Newark, Del., has launched two major initiatives that aim to drive healthcare IT adoption among community physicians.
National coordinator asks regional extension centers to consider using health care CIOs in health IT adoption project.
California's critical-access, rural hospitals got a big boost when UnitedHealth Group announced it would provide $10 million in loans to help them adopt electronic health records and improve their health IT systems, and $1 million in grants to jumpstart the process.
Innovent Oncology, a division of US Oncology, has engaged the actuarial and consulting firm Milliman to help develop risk contracting methodologies – including episode rates, bundled payments and capitation – to help identify potential areas where oncologists can improve quality of care while lowering health costs.
In a deal that will add feet-on-the-ground management of payer reimbursement services to 200 hospitals in 30 states enabled by a technology backbone, Emdeon Inc. announced in early September that it will acquire Altanta-based Chamberlin Emonds & Associates for $260 million in cash.
Healthcare information technology can collect and help analyze the quality measures the U.S. must have to integrate care, says the chief of the largest healthcare payer in the country, who added that the status quo of fragmented patient health information and fragmented care is no longer acceptable.
Novo Nordisk, a healthcare company with a focus on diabetes care, announced the availability of NovoDose – the first-ever mobile insulin-dosing guide for physicians to look up dosing guidelines and blood glucose goals for their patients with diabetes.
Hillside Avenue Family and Community Medicine has reduced the need for patient emergency room usage by more than 10 percent over the past year. The Rhode Island practice used McKesson's Practice Partner electronic health record solution to improve the health of chronically ill patients.