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CMS Commits $3B to Upgrade Medicaid-Enrollment Systems

by HITC Staff 04/21/2015 Leave a Comment

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The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is expected to spend $3 billion dollars between fiscal 2016 and fiscal 2025 to help states upgrade and maintain their Medicaid eligibility and enrollment systems, Modern Healthcare first reports. The increase stems from CMS permanently raising the matching rate to 90% from 50% for money that states spend on building Medicaid eligibility & enrollment systems, and from 50% to 75% for maintenance and operations of those systems. All
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Xerox Wins $565M NY Medicaid Management Contract

by HITC Staff 04/21/2015 Leave a Comment

Xerox Medicaid Management

Xerox will work with the state of New York to upgrade its Medicaid claims processing system to a next-generation technology platform that will help manage expanding Medicaid rolls, the company announced on Monday. Under a $564.9 million, five-year contract with the New York State Department of Health, Xerox will implement its Health Enterprise solution, a flexible, adaptable and analytical Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS). The system is one of the only platforms that can manage all
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Want a Connected Healthcare System? You Are the Missing Key

by Our Thought Leaders 04/17/2015 Leave a Comment

John Hammergren CEO at McKesson

 Editor's Note: John H. Hammergren is chairman, president and chief executive officer of McKesson Corporation. How often do we visit the doctor’s office and think, “This again?” when handed a long medical form to fill out? Don’t we all wonder why our medical information can’t be automatically transferred from our primary care physician to the specialist? Or to the hospital or outpatient surgery center?  The answer is this: we don’t currently have a national network of connectivity that
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Cerner Integrates EHR & Engagement Platform with Healthwise Patient Education Resources

by HITC Staff 04/17/2015 Leave a Comment

Cerner Acquires Siemens Health IT Business for $1.3B

This week, Healthwise and Cerner announce an agreement to integrate Cerner's EHR and online engagement platform HealtheLife(SM) with Healthwise's patient education resources. Together, the integration will gives individuals access to evidence-based health education across the continuum of home, work, or care settings. Individuals can now expect to receive consistent educational content through Cerner's integrated member engagement solutions, including Cerner's online health and wellness
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Report: Healthcare Interoperability Gets Failing Grade

by Jasmine Pennic 04/17/2015 1 Comment

Healthcare IT Interoperability Gets Failing Grade

A national physician survey of nearly 3,000 physicians who use the Epocrates medical reference app reveal that 95% of physicians have experienced a delay or difficulty delivering medical care because patients’ health records were not easily accessible or shared. The Epocrates study, prepared by athenahealth finds only 14% of physicians can actually access electronic health information across all care settings. Given the nearly unanimous frustration over the lack of helathcare
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Population Health: New Era Requires Focus on Emergent-Risk

by Fred Pennic 04/17/2015 Leave a Comment

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Today’s population health strategies currently used by health plans and employer groups are missing the mark when it comes to directly affecting healthcare’s number one health challenge: arresting the trajectory of compounding chronic conditions. The 25-35% of the U.S. adult population fall within the category of those with one or more pre-chronic or early-stage chronic conditions who, if not treated with the right solutions, can quickly become patients with multiple chronic conditions who will
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Epic to Waive Record Sharing Fees

by HITC Staff 04/16/2015 Leave a Comment

Epic Systems

EHR leader Epic announced this week during HIMSS15 that it will no longer charge a fee to exchange patient records between Epic customers and non-Epic customers through a module formerly called Care Elsewhere, Modern Healthcare  first reports. Data sharing services with Non-Epic customers have since been bundled into Epic's other interoperability module, Care Everywhere. “We're not going to charge for Care Everywhere for at least until 2020,”said Epic CEO Judy Faulkner in an interview
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CMS Approves New Quality Reporting Measures for Physician Anesthesiologists

by HITC Staff 04/16/2015 Leave a Comment

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Physician anesthesiologists can now choose from 36 quality reporting measures when participating in the ASA QCDR, the American Society of Anesthesiologists® (ASA®) Qualified Clinical Data Registry (QCDR). The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) approved two new Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) measures and 16 non-PQRS measures developed by ASA and its affiliated organization, Anesthesia Quality Institute (AQI). With the new quality reporting measures, physician
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HIMSS15 Day 3 Summary and Highlights

by HITC Staff 04/15/2015 Leave a Comment

7 Buzzwords to Watch at HIMSS 2015

Humana CEO Bruce Broussard: Time to Change Business Models and Move Towards Value-Based Payments In his Tuesday keynote address, Humana’s Broussard called for transformation—and interoperability—in healthcare, Healthcare Informatics reports.  “We have to change the conversation on what we are doing in healthcare from a supply-based system to a system around demand, a system where we put the customer first as opposed to the system,” Broussard said. “Over the years, healthcare has been built
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Mayo Clinic, Optum360 Partner To Optimize Revenue Cycle

by Fred Pennic 04/15/2015 Leave a Comment

Mayo Clinic Study Reveals Patient Portals Had Little impact on Face to Face Visits

Optum360 and Mayo Clinic are partnering to develop new revenue cycle management services capabilities aimed at improving patient experiences and satisfaction while reducing administrative costs for health care providers. As part of the agreement, Optum360 and Mayo Clinic will collaborate on enhancing and redesigning specific elements of the revenue cycle to increase efficiency while creating a convenient, accurate, transparent and personal experience for patients. A key focus is improving the
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