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When you're one of the largest and most profitable companies in the world, you can afford to make big statements – pitting big money and big know-how against big problems.
At the launch this past month of the iPhone 4S, new Apple CEO Tim Cook noted that, "80 percent of the top hospitals in the U.S. are now testing or piloting the iPad." That's a good thing, because a fast-increasing number of medical schools are doing the same. The iPad, it seems, is becoming as ubiquitous as the stethoscope.
Interactions Corporation and Humana will expand their partnership, through which Humana deploys Interactions' voice portal technology, to streamline member enrollment for Medicare Part D benefits.
HP Enterprise Services announced the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) has signed a renewal service agreement to manage the state's Medicaid Management Information System. The $172 million, three-year extension will help the state transition to a managed care environment.
There are plenty of rumors circulating about when Apple will release the iPad 3, but most reports indicate we won’t see it until 2012. Physicians, –along with the rest of us, are eagerly awaiting its release – and doctors interviewed by Healthcare It News have some strong opinions on the specifications they’d like to see in the device.
As Heather Budd tells it, Ray Lavoie, executive director of Blackstone Valley Community Health Care (BVCHC), which serves uninsured and under-insured patients, believes that a small, government-funded health center like Blackstone can provide care that equals or even rivals the care delivered by the private sector.
Two separate studies, released within weeks of one another, point to the fact that physicians are entering the online space professionally.
As if upgrading the nation’s ICD-9 code set for diseases and treatment to ICD-10, with its many thousands more codes, were not enough of a challenge for health information managers at hospitals and health systems across the country, now there’s this: ICD-11 is not far behind.
Eighty percent of respondents to a March 2011 Healthcare IT News survey of hospital and health system IT professionals showed that achieving meaningful use was top of mind – above privacy and security concerns.
Hospitals are taking steps to avoid overdocumentation, according to clinical informatics experts.