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NewsMayo rolls out PHR with Microsoft platform
The Mayo Clinic has rolled out out a personal health records system using Microsoft's HealthVault PHR platform. And in a trick that could save it a whole lot of HIPAA hassles, the new PHR will not be Read more...
Health systems seek better user access controlWith HIPAA requirements upping the ante, health IT administrators must take the issue of user access control even more seriously than their colleagues in other enterprise IT environments. Increasingly, health systems are being forced to throw additional resources at the problem, conducting frequent privacy audits that look closely at user access permissions. User accounts that remain active after employees leave are a predictable--yet still vexing--problem HIT admins struggle to address. … Read more...Editor's Corner
For several months, the VA has been under intense scrutiny as it struggles to close the massive holes in its … Read more...Editor's Corner
Just before the HIMSS show takes place in late February, FierceHealthIT will be announcing our first-annual list of the most progressive vendors in health IT. Now, we're journalists and researchers, not the Gartner Group, so I'm not … Read more...Maine struggles with Medicaid billing systemFor two years, Maine has tried to make its flawed Medicaid billing system work. Now, state administrators are ready to throw up their hands and kill the system, which has already cost the state and federal government $56 million. If administrators pull the plug, there's no other system available to pay the state's roughly 7,000 Medicaid providers. The system immediately began rejecting claims in January 2005, when it first went live. To keep care available to patients during this … Read more...Case study: Washington state provider taps ITThere's an illuminating case study waiting for you in the Sept. 4 edition of VARBusiness. In it, you'll get the skinny on solution provider Northwest Computer Support of Tukwila, Washington and how it helped Apple Physical Therapy (APT), a health-care provider in. APT operates 20-plus clinics in the Northwest and needed to streamline its growing IT administrative tasks. The … Read more... |
