Catholic West, the fifth largest heath system in the US announced today that they have inked a $4.3 million 3 year deal with AirStrip Technologies to use their AirstripOB applications at 32 of it's hospital systems that have birthing facilities. Currently, AirStrip has piloted Airstrip at two of it's California hospitals, Mercy Medical Center and Sequoia Hospital. AirStrip OB Overview The AirStrip OB app gives physicians mobile access to vital patient data in waveform
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AMA Votes to “Vigorously” Stop ICD-10
Yesterday, the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association voted "to work vigorously to stop implementation of ICD-10," according to the news release on AMA's website. AMA's presdient, Peter W. Camel, MD stated, "The implementation of ICD-10 will create significant burdens on the practice of medicine with no direct benefit to individual patients' care. At a time when we are working to get the best value possible for our health care dollar, this massive and expensive undertaking will
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HP Signs $172M Renewal to Manage Florida’s Medicaid Management System
Today, HP Enterprise Services has signed a $172 million dollar renewal contract with the Florida Agency for Healthcare Administration to manage the state's Medicaid Management Information System. HP will help the state of Florida transition to a managed care environment and help control rising costs associated with pending program changes which includes implementing federal HIPAA 5010 requirements and supporting the move to ICD-10 procedure coding.
The agreement will extend HP's contract
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Selects 3M ICD-10 Conversion Software
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has selected advanced ICD-10 code translation technology from 3M Health Information Systems to assist the federal agency in converting systems, applications, and reports based on ICD-9 diagnosis and procedure codes into the language of ICD-10. The 3M ICD-10 Code Translation Tool will be used to streamline the code translation process and support ICD-10 transition planning at CMS headquarters in Baltimore, MD. CMS has also licensed the
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GNAX Health Named by VMware as First vCloud® Powered Provider in HIT
GNAX Health Named by VMware as First vCloud® Powered Provider in HIT as the first and only healthcare IT company to meet VMware's criteria GNAX Health, a healthcare technology infrastructure service provider located in Atlanta, Georgia, proudly announces certification as the first and only healthcare IT company to meet VMware's criteria as a "vCloud Powered" services provider. The announcement was made by Mariano Maluf, CTO, GNAX Health, and President, Global VMUG, at VMworld 2011. "We're
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GE Healthcare Launches Centricity Business 5.0
GE Healthcare, a leading provider of health information technology, today launched Centricity Business 5.0, their next generation of revenue cycle management solution for hospital networks, academic medical centers, large practice, and physician billing groups. With the rising costs of healthcare associated with healthcare reform and ICD-10, Centricity Business 5.0 will help healthcare providers achieve greater profitability and efficiency by streamlining administrative tasks from front desk to
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GE Healthcare Launches Centricity Advance – Mobile
GE Healthcare today announced the release of Centricity* Advance-Mobile, a native Applie iPad application that is specifically designed for primary care physicians in small practices. Clinicians who will use the complete web based EMR and practice management system won't be tied to their desktop, but can walk freely utilizing their iPad with the ability to interact with their patients and patient record. The mobile application will allow immediate response to patient requests, such as
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CMS Proposes MU Attestation for Clinical Quality Measures in 2012
Hospitals, critical access hospitals and eligible professionals may continue to report clinical quality measures for meaningful use via attestation in 2012, just as they must do in 2011, according to two proposed rules from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Also, just like 2011, the measures must be calculated using meaningful use-certified electronic health records.The provision, with varying language, is in separate proposed rules setting Medicare's hospital outpatient
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Toolkits: eHI Releases Updated Health Information Exchange Toolkit
The eHealth Initiative recently released the second phase of the third generation of its Health Information Exchange (HIE) Toolkit, an online resource to empower health care leaders managing the challenges associated with developing, adopting, operating, and sustaining a health information exchange.Phase II of the new eHI Toolkit is now online and available to the public. This "primer" addresses the next steps needed for starting an HIE - creating a sustainable model, technical aspects of
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CareTech Solutions Unveils iDoc™ Savings Calculator
CareTech Solutions, an information technology and Web products and services provider for more than 180 U.S. hospitals, today unveiled its iDoc™ Savings Calculator, at the Michigan Health Information Management Association’s annual meeting. Located on the company’s website, the online tool will estimate annual savings for an organization after it implements the company’s document imaging and management solution. “CareTech Solutions’ iDoc Savings Calculator helps hospitals isolate costs
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