February 6, 2009 (Computerworld)
and the Continua Health Alliance this week unveiled jointly developed software designed to stream patient information from a doctor’s mobile device to online data stores.
The two tech giants worked with the Beaverton, Ore.-based health care provider to extend the value of
offerings, and to ensure that stored patient health records are up to date, according to an
press release.
“Our partnership with IBM will Read the rest of this entry »

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Two of western
’s largest health
insurers are the latest to sign on to a nationwide push to reform
how patient reimbursement rates are set.
Attorney General Andrew Cuomo says Independent Health and
HealthNow New York will no longer use a faulty database to
calculate reimbursement rates for patients who see doctors outside
their insurance networks.
,
Conn.-based
and MVP Healthcare of Albany.
Cuomo says the Ingenix database, Read the rest of this entry »

ATLANTA – People who get multiple doses of pain medicine for the same complaint would have a tougher time going undetected under legislation designed to create a statewide drug database.
Rep. Ron Stephens, R-Savannah, introduced House Bill 273, the Georgia Prescription Monitoring Program Act to make it easier to spot cases where people have gotten multiple prescriptions for federally controlled pain medications.
It’s designed to catch two kinds Read the rest of this entry »

An ambitious new government study to follow the health of 100,000 U.S. children from before birth to age 21 is launching in January, and information technology for data collection and analysis is playing a central role.
The National Institutes of Health National Children’s Study, which was authorized by Congress in the Children’s Health Act of 2000, will examine the effects of genes and environmental factors on the health of American children based Read the rest of this entry »

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo says health insurer Cigna Corp. is joining a nationwide push to reform how health care reimbursement rates are set.
Cigna will stop using a controversial database to calculate reimbursement for patients who see doctors outside their insurance networks. The company will also contribute $10 million to a new, independent database.
Cuomo says the Ingenix database, owned by UnitedHealth Read the rest of this entry »

will stop using a faulty database to calculate reimbursement rates for patients who see doctors outside of their insurance networks, and it will contribute $10 million to a new independent payment database, the New York attorney general,
, said Tuesday.
The change is intended to eliminate a conflict of interest that unfairly drove up costs for people who went to see doctors outside of their network. A class-action law against Cigna has not been Read the rest of this entry »