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Insurance companies' leap into HIE field will change health IT
Health plans are preparing for a change in their business models by investing in health IT firms that will get them more involved in the clinical workflow of providers, according to participants at
Epic leads 2010 'Best in KLAS' honorees
Epic Systems is the top-ranked vendor in the 2010 "Best in KLAS" report from industry analyst KLAS Enterprises. Epic, the closely held, Verona, Wis.-based EMR vendor with a knack for winning
UnitedHealth's Ingenix to buy Executive Health Resources, make FQHC version of CareTracker EHR
It's been a busy last couple of weeks for Ingenix. As you may have read last week in FierceHealthcare , Ingenix, the health IT subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group ( NYSE: UNH ), on Wednesday announced
UnitedHealth Group to grow health services, create in-house TTO
UnitedHealth Group kicked off the second-quarter earnings season for 2010 with a bang, posting net income of $1.1 billion on consolidated revenues of $23.3 billion. That represents a a 7 percent
HHS mostly gets meaningful use right
In case you hadn't heard--and if you hadn't, shame on you (or good for you for taking a vacation)--the final rules for "meaningful use" of EMRs came out last week . As readers of FierceEMR know, I got
Feeling meaningfully used
They say everybody's a critic. These days, everybody's a pundit, too. That's particularly true when it comes to "meaningful use" of EMRs. On Tuesday morning, CMS of course released its final rule on
SPOTLIGHT: Why some departments demand specialty EMRs
The debate over best-of-breed vs. single-source implementations just never ends. Firmly in the latter camp is Geoff Brown, senior VP and CIO at Inova Health System, Falls Church, Va., (and an
SPOTLIGHT: Documentation, evidence-based admission guidelines help hospitals fight payer audits
Post-payment audits by Medicare and private insurers often look at the medical necessity of admitting patients through hospital emergency departments and find that many patients should have been held
SPOTLIGHT: Picis exec challenges KLAS report on anesthesia systems
Picis chief physician executive Dr. Carlos Nunez takes exception with a recent KLAS report on anesthesia information management systems, in which KLAS said that many current products, including the
Consolidation and more consolidation
Remember VitalWorks? It's now part of Cerner. Per-Se Technologies? MercuryMD? Bought by Micromedex, which since has become part of Thomson Reuters. Other names that have disappeared from the
