Molly Merrill
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City is planning to implement a healthcare management platform to its 880,000 members this month.
In the first quarter of 2009, chief information officers experienced significant IT budget revisions, according to a survey by Gartner.
More than 50 percent of healthcare providers believe the billions of dollars from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act earmarked for healthcare information technology will have little to no success in encouraging adoption, according to a recent survey.
The Department of Health Care Finance, the District of Columbia's state Medicaid agency, is implementing a Medicaid-focused health information exchange pilot project, which officials expect to be up and running within a year.
The FDA does not have a comprehensive IT strategic plan to coordinate and manage its current modernization projects, according to a report by the Government Accountability Office.
A report by consumer watchdog Public Citizen claims that nearly half of all hospitals have not submitted a single physician's name to the National Practitioner Data Bank, which provides reviews of healthcare practitioners' professional credentials.
Health insurer Aetna, Inc., is reportedly providing 65,000 individuals with free credit monitoring for a year after its job application Web site was breached, the Associated Press has reported.
The University of North Carolina Health Care is partnering with IBM to create a data warehouse designed to help speed the development of new treatments for diseases such as diabetes, cystic fibrosis and cancer.
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