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Health information exchanges (HIEs) got another boost last week as two more states announced plans to form public or community HIEs and a large health insurer said it would operate its own private HIE.

Modern Medicine»

TAMPA, Fla. – Feb. 28, 2012 – MedHOK, one of the healthcare industry’s fastest growing companies providing cloud-based software, announced today that Simply Healthcare will deploy its integrated care management, quality and compliance platform to proactively enhance its quality improvement initiatives. In doing so, Simply Healthcare is well positioned to respond to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) efforts to enhance quality outcomes and reduce costs. MedHOK, which offers fully NCQA certified software for HEDIS®, has more than 15 million live in production and is on track to reach 30 million within the year, making it one of the healthcare industry’s leading software companies.

Sharon Regional Health System faced a dilemma after completing a comprehensive master patient index cleanup in preparation for its new electronic health record system. While the cleanup had eliminated existing duplicate records from the system, limited internal resources and manual processes meant that maintaining a clean MPI would be an ongoing challenge — one shared by many facilities.

Becker's Hospital Review»

The use of point-of-care decision support technology in hospitals is key to successfully accelerating the adoption of clinical best practices. Physician champions and hospital executives have realized that without a fast and reliable way of standardizing care to support use of the latest evidence, the potential for raising the bar on quality initiatives is minimized at best.

Executive Insight»

The quality agenda in gastroenterology has gained new momentum in recent years. As the specialty pursues improved quality, better patient outcomes and lower cost of care, endoscopy centers are under increased pressure to track, report and benchmark key quality and performance measures.

Executive Insight»

TAMPA, Fla. – Feb. 13, 2012 – MedHOK, one of the healthcare industry’s fastest-growing companies providing cloud-based software, announced today the appointment of David Butterworth, CPA, as senior vice president of business development. MedHOK, which offers fully NCQA certified software for HEDIS, has more than 15 million lives in production and is on track to reach 30 million within the year, making it one of the healthcare industry’s leading software companies.

TAMPA, Fla. – Feb. 10, 2012 – MedHOK, one of the healthcare industry’s fastest-growing companies providing cloud-based software, has been named a finalist for the 2012 BizTech Innovation of the Year Award. The company’s integrated care management, quality and compliance platform enables healthcare organizations to close care gaps, comply with federal and state regulations, enhance care management and improve Star, HEDIS® and other quality scores. MedHOK, which offers fully NCQA certified software for HEDIS, has more than 15 million lives in production and is on track to reach 30 million within the year, making it one of leading healthcare software companies.

COSTA MESA, Calif. (Feb. 7, 2012) — CardFlex Inc. and Tokyo-based Tay Two Co. announced today an agreement to explore development of a CardFlex-branded prepaid debit card program in Japan.

It's a new day for quality reporting in ambulatory surgery centers. Many have already recognized the benefits and are engaged in tracking and improving performance indicators. For the others, reality is about to arrive as federal regulations take effect that now up the ante for all ASCs.

Becker's ASC Review»

October 1, 2013 marks the day that healthcare organizations must comply with the most significant–and underestimated–mandate in recent history.  That is the date by which hospitals, health systems, physician practices, insurance companies and any other organization covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) must have completed their transition to the ICD-10 code set.

Kforce Kronicle»

Consider the following scenario. A patient in a hospital acquires pneumonia. When the attending physician enters an order for the antibiotic ceftriaxone, an alert pops up indicating that the patient is allergic to the medication. Based on the information provided, the physician chooses another appropriate medication.

Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare»

TAMPA, Fla. – (Jan. 30, 2012) – MedHOK, one of the healthcare industry’s fastest growing providers of cloud-based software, announced today that it achieved full certification for its 360Measures®, version 2.55. MedHOK successfully passed all 63 program measures, sampling methodology, and CAPHS sample frames in the National Committee on Quality Assurance’s (NCQA) Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS®) certification process.

Long-term sustainability is one of the critical challenges facing health information exchange (HIE) initiatives. In its recent report, 2011 Report on Health Information Exchange: Sustainable HIE in a Changing Landscape, eHealth Initiative identified just 24 out of the 196 active HIEs around the country that categorized themselves as sustainable.

Government Health IT»

Medicare’s ACO programs, which are tied to the Affordable Care Act, could find themselves in a vulnerable position in 2012, with both a Supreme Court decision on the reform statute and potential budget cuts looming on the horizon. But some say that no matter what the legal and political outcomes are next year, ACOs will find a way to survive in the Medicare space.

AIS Health»

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – (Jan. 9, 2012) – Heat Biologics, a clinical-stage immunotherapy company, has been awarded a $250,000 Strategic Growth Loan from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center.