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Christiana Care Health System a private, not-for-profit tertiary-care hospital system with locations in Wilmington and Newark, Del., has announced two major initiatives that aim to drive healthcare IT adoption.
They're tiny: often just the size of a grain of rice or even a mote of dust. And they're cheap: usually just ten bucks or so. But radio frequency identification (RFID) chips pack a powerful punch. And they're being used in more – and more interesting – ways than ever.
There's a sense of relief across the industry that the just-unveiled meaningful use criteria are less stringent than many had feared, striking the right note between rules-based accountability and the freedom needed to foster wider implementation.
Information technology and services company Ingenix has signed a merger agreement to acquire Wakefield, Mass.-based Picis, which provides health information solutions for the high-acuity areas of hospitals.
In July, the Leapfrog Group released a report on computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems that contained some discouraging findings.
As they work to consummate the merger between them first announced in June, Chicago-based Allscripts and Atlanta-based Eclipsys have announced investor meetings this month in their respective cities.
It's everywhere you look: in movie theaters, with films such as Avatar and Toy Story 3; and even, slowly but surely, on TV, with broadcast stations like ESPN 3D and state of the art televisions such as Sony's Bravia LCD 3D. Suddenly, what was once a novelty is becoming the norm.
The TriZetto Group recently announced a partnership with professors who founded the value-based insurance design (VBID) movement to develop chronic-condition templates as options for healthcare payer customers of TriZetto’s Value-Based Benefits Solution.
In a partnership aimed at helping both insurance carriers and employers, out-of-network pharmacy benefit management (PBM) specialist Progressive Medical and StoneRiver Pharmacy Solutions will make available a combined electronic service to aid in correctly identifying payers for out-of-network pharmacy benefits.
President Obama's recess appointment of Harvard Medical School professor Donald Berwick, MD, to lead the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid is drawing praise from healthcare IT leaders across the country even as his detractors paint him as a champion for socialism and healthcare rationing.