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NewsMicrosoft renaming, upgrading healthcare offerings
Hoping to develop a stronger presence in the healthcare arena, Microsoft has renamed its enterprise healthcare technology products--and has set plans to integrate and upgrade them over the next year Read more...
Marriott rolls out Web-based PHR to employees
Hotel operator Marriott has rolled out a Web-based PHR to 50,000 employees across the U.S. Marriott is doing the rollout after conducting a small pilot test with the PHR system, developed by Read more...
Wal-Mart, partners pilot Dossia PHR
After more than a year of wrangling--and one initial development effort gone bad--Wal-Mart and a team of fellow corporate giants are finally pilot-testing Dossia, their massive PHR effort. Right now, Read more...
Case study: UPenn integrates patient data
After about a year of effort, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's network of hospitals and clinics will soon have access to a single, integrated view of key patient data. The project began, Read more...
Group works to bring medical practices onto the Web
A new trade organization is pushing to get doctors and dentists to begin doing a great deal more business online--and in the process, document the free care they provide to medically indigent and Read more...
Case study: U of Pittsburgh develops with vendorsAt the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), execs are on to something really cool. Sure, they've deployed EMRs to 18 of their 19 hospitals, but that's already a given. What's really interesting is the extent to which execs at UPMC have taken the vendor-buyer relationship to a new level. Within the past 18 months, CIO Dan Drawbaugh signed an eight-year, $402 million deal with IBM to overhaul the facility's three data centers and a $300 million deal with Alcatel to upgrade … Read more...Health IT czar, standards in the worksMaybe they got tired of being called a "do-nothing" Congress. Last week the U.S. House of Representatives passed a sweeping health-IT bill that would make permanent the sub-cabinet position of national health-IT czar and form a committee to govern national standards for interoperability. The Health Information Technology Promotion Act of 2006, or H.R. 4157, hopes to accelerate healthcare providers' adoption of IT, including interoperable electronic health record (EHR) and e-prescribing … Read more...HIPAA compliance nears adolescenceLike your typical 10-year old, HIPAA compliance is a sometimes cranky, sometimes frustrating work in progress. What will it be when it grows up? Ten years after HIPAA became a federal law, health insurers are scrambling to make changes to their IT systems in order to comply with one of its last major requirements: The ability to process claims and other electronic transactions using standardized ID numbers for doctors and hospitals. But insurers' efforts to ready their systems are being … Read more... |
