News
Cisco moved closer to the launch of a telemedicine platform with its January announcement of a pilot project involving 15 sites in southern California.
Butler Health System in Butler, Pa., has deployed a new patient portal to help its more than 200 affiliated physicians achieve “meaningful use.”
A gap exists between policymakers' expectations that electronic medical records can improve coordination of patient care and clinicians' real-world experiences with EHRs, according to a study by the Center for Studying Health System Change.
The Owen Clinic, located at the University of California in San Diego, is using a new customizable electronic medical record to meet the specific needs of its HIV patients.
Physicians taking part in a two-year medical home pilot program will soon have access to new technology designed to help them identify patient care opportunities.
Four months after the switch to a new benefits administrator caused a massive claims backlog, the situation for Maryland mental health providers appears to be on the upswing. Even so, more repairs have to be made to the system before things can return to normal, state officials say.
By offering its members a patient portal through clearinghouse provider Office Ally, Blue Shield of California is hoping for greater adoption of the tool.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina has selected the Callidus Monaco Suite to manage its sales performance and compensation programs, the San Jose, Calif.-based software vendor announced recently. Under the enterprise software-as-a-service agreement, the health plan will use Monaco for its 4,000 brokers.
3M Health Information Systems has introduced a new mobile application for the BlackBerry and other Windows mobile smartphones designed to facilitate physician diction.
Data security is a multi-dimensional job full of variables that sometimes aren’t noticed until it’s too late. And often these unforeseen breaches are completely accidental, caused by an unsuspecting user.