September 2011 - News - emrupdate.com

New Walgreens Pharmacy Layout

I was in a Walgreens last week in Chicago. Maybe it’s just a newer store than my local store in St. Louis, but I thought the pharmacy looked very different. I captured a few shots with my camera phone. As you can see below: 1. There is an automated...

Published Mon, Sep 19 2011 3:16 PM by Enabling Healthy Decisions

Filed under: Healthcare, Innovation, PBM / Pharmacy, Marketing / Communications, Consumerism

EMR News 09/23/2011

EMR VatorNews - Doctors can now draw, fax, and prescribe from iPad drchrono Releases a New Product Bundle Which Includes Free E-Prescribing Now Available Indiana University Hospitals Turn to McKesson's Latest Electronic Document Management Release...

Published Fri, Sep 23 2011 1:35 PM by Nick Harrington

Select Medical Corporation Added to Corporate Integrity Agreement List

Corporate Integrity Agreements (CIAs), Certification of Compliance Agreements (CCAs) and Settlement Agreements with Integrity Provisions http://oig.hhs.gov/compliance/corporate-integrity-agreements/cia-documents.asp. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________...

Published Fri, Sep 23 2011 2:27 AM by The Voyager - Helping Physicians Navigate The Healthcare Industry

Filed under: Medicare, CMS, Medicaid, Health care, HHS, OIG, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS), HHS Updates, CCAs, Corporate Integrity Agreement List, Medical Corporation, Settlement Agreements with Integrity Provisions

EMR News 09/17/2011

EMR P & P Data Systems is Granted EMR Specification 4.0 ConditionalApproval from OntarioMD – MarketWatch What Is An EMR/Patient Portal Interface System? U.P. hospital switches to new medical record system EPIC Kaiser awards $1.5M for workforce development...

Published Sat, Sep 17 2011 1:02 PM by Nick Harrington

Soon-Shiong’s big rollup gets a name: NantWorks

Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong announced that NantWorks is the name of the company that he has been building through a series of acquisitions over the past few years. Following the sales of two companies Soon-Shiong founded — American Pharmaceutical Partners (sold 2008) and Abraxis BioScience (sold 2010) — he has invested more than $400 million dollars [...] Read More...

Published Thu, Sep 08 2011 9:12 AM by mobihealthnews

Filed under: Uncategorized, CTIA, Vitality GlowCaps, Toumaz, WiGig, CommX, KeyOn Communications, NantWorks, Ipplex, Tensorcom, Patrick Soon-Shiong, LookTel

GE Unveils Senocase Mobile Mammography Concept as Part of Wider Cancer Commitment

Yesterday in New York City GE Healthcare unveiled a new $1 billion initiative to fund innovative cancer research in a variety of cancer fields. The initial focus is on breast cancer thanks to $100 million, raised with help from a few venture capital funds, that will fund an open innovation challenge that seeks to identify promising new approaches to improve breast cancer diagnostics. Additionaly, GE unveiled an impressive portable mammography concept as part of a portfolio of integrated technologies aimed at combating cancer. The SenoCase is mobile mammography system which can be folded and easily...

Published Fri, Sep 16 2011 1:16 PM by Medgadget

Filed under: radiology, Medicine, Surgery

WellPoint Partners With IBM, Hopes to Make Watson a Health Insurance Expert

Following Watson’s defeat of Jeopardy! champions earlier this year, doctors have been working with IBM to adapt the supercomputer’s algorithms to the healthcare industry. Now, Watson has received its first real-world assignment from WellPoint Inc., which offers health insurance in 14 states. WellPoint hopes Watson will be able to reduce the time required to diagnose and treat patients by quickly presenting care providers with a list of possible ailments and treatment options. In order to offer potential diagnoses and treatments, Watson will combine textbooks, medical journals, and WellPoint’s...

Published Tue, Sep 13 2011 11:38 AM by Medgadget

Filed under: in the news...

Small Primary Care Practices Take Center Stage with New McKesson Service

McKesson to Leverage Expertise of TransforMED for Patient-Centered Medical Homes Read More...

Published Tue, Sep 13 2011 5:03 PM by McKesson News

EMR News 09/19/2011

EMR MD-IT’s new Android app for the Google operating system improves on previous mobile applications by offering the full Patient Chart View (PCV) for MD-IT’s EMR users Intuit Health Patient Portal Streamlines Patient Flow Through Forms Integration with...

Published Mon, Sep 19 2011 1:09 PM by Nick Harrington

How Indian Doctors Loot Patients.

There's this email which is doing the rounds in India today. " It is by Dr. B M Hegde. 1) 40-60% kickbacks for lab tests. When a doctor (whether family doctor / general physician, consultant or surgeon) prescribes tests - pathology, radiology...

Published Thu, Sep 22 2011 6:03 AM by Dr.Malpani's Blog

Filed under: Medicine, Surgery, Physician, India, Information Therapy, Intensive Care Unit, ICU, Dr. B M Hegde

ONC Releases Updated Federal Health IT Strategic Plan 20112015

In March, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT released its Health IT Strategic Plan for 2011-2015, and accepted comments from the public from March 25 to May 6. Over 240 responses were received, including CHIME's recommendations that...

Published Tue, Sep 13 2011 2:00 AM by ChartLogic Newsroom

EMR News 09/13/2011

EMR WellPoint and IBM Announce Agreement to Put Watson to Work in Health Care MyChart: She experienced relief sooner: Effects of a patient portal EMR Research for the 21st Century McKesson Corporation unveils new offerings to empower the community patient...

Published Tue, Sep 13 2011 1:38 PM by Nick Harrington

McKesson, Texas Health and Human Services Commission Recognized with Outstanding 09-08-2011

Program results in improved health for Texas Medicaid clients Read More...

Published Thu, Sep 08 2011 7:00 PM by McKesson News

Syfy orders Season 2 of 'Alphas'

NEW YORK, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- U.S. cable network Syfy says it has renewed "Alphas," its drama series about a team of superhuman investigators, for a second season. Read More...

Published Wed, Sep 07 2011 8:56 PM by Latest News - UPI.com

Urgent Changes Needed for Medicare Physician Fee Schedule

On behalf of its more than 750 member companies, HBMA submitted comments to CMS and the Department of Health and Human Services on the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) regarding the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule as published in the July 19, 2011...

Published Thu, Sep 01 2011 4:21 PM by HBMA Blog

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