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Allscripts and Boston-based Humedica have announced their collaboration on a next-generation cloud-based clinical informatics platform that will help physicians and hospitals succeed in the coming era of value-based reimbursement.

In a new addition to its Centricity portfolio, GE Healthcare is taking aim at clinical research studies, seeking to drive better management of treatment processes and protocols while also supporting improved research billing compliance.

A lot of talk these days has focused on transparency in government. Transparency in healthcare is important, too.

Several years into the national interoperability initiative, it’s fair to wonder if the healthcare industry is making as much progress as expected when it started under the George W. Bush administration.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has paid out more than $37 million to providers under the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs this year.

The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to contract for management services to streamline and modernize the processing of its healthcare claims and develop tools to detect fraud and waste. It will also update IT services to help control costs in its beneficiary travel program.

Military healthcare provider will help fortify Fusionfx HIE platform

The use of barcode technology with an electronic medication administration record (eMAR) substantially reduces errors, including potential drug-related adverse events, according to a study at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston

HealthPoint, a network of 12 not-for-profit clinics in suburban Seattle, has reaped significant cost savings by consolidating IT that had been spread throughout seven of the network's facilities.

HP Enterprise Services and the Oklahoma Health Care Authority have signed a seven-year, $281 million IT and information services contract aimed at preparing SoonerCare, the state’s Medicaid program, for federal health reform mandates.