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WellPoint deal lets health plan create national HIE
Health plan giant WellPoint announced today that it was striking a deal with health plan portal Availity to create what it's describing as a "multi-payer portal," or HIE. WellPoint is making an... Read more...
Trend: Physician online consult volume growing
As we've reported for more than a year, online physician consults via the Internet (sometimes known as "e-visits") are growing more popular over time. While some physicians are leery of conducting... Read more...
Cigna rolls out Second Life community
In an interesting case of an insurance company doing something (moderately) cutting-edge, Cigna has launched a pilot project under which it has launched a virtual health care community based on... Read more...
Coalition wants e-prescribing included in Medicare reform
A coalition of 44 healthcare industry organizations have come together to ask Congress to to include e-prescribing mandates in Medicare reform legislation. The members want legislators to adopt the... Read more...
Insurers keep getting on web visit bandwagon
A growing number of health plans have begun to pay for patients to participate in online visits with their doctor. In recent months Aetna and Cigna have started paying for some doctors' visits on... Read more...
ALSO NOTED: HIT execs want data security standards; AT&T, Tennessee create health data exchange; and much more...
> A new survey concludes that HIT execs would like to see the industry adopt a uniform way for verifying healthcare data security. Read more...
Trend: Health plans begin reimbursing for 'virtual visits'
It's been a long wait, but ever so slowly, health plans are beginning to pay doctors for 'virtual visits' with patients. Vendors like McKesson-owned RelayHealth, mainstay EMR vendor Epic Systems and... Read more...
Health IT helps CA medical groups improve care
Let's see if this news boosts group practice IT adoption. A new performance report from a large California trade group says the more groups participating in its Pay for Performance initiative... Read more...
