The article states this is a “cloud” based service and is setting up operations in Florida where the data platform was developed. Where is the cloud going to be, here or India? That’s not an out of the way question today and one we should ask of vendors. The platform, called Preferr...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on Tue, Dec 28 2010
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, health insurance, Physicians, HealthIT, Heatlhcare, HIE, collaboration, Meaningful Use, ARRA, transactions, NIIT Technologies
As we have read this last year, health insurance companies though subsidiaries they have purchased are seeing this as a viable area to do business. With grants comes the next phase of finding a vendor to set up and provide such services and not all HIE vendors are owned by insurance companies by any...
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on Tue, Dec 7 2010
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, Medical Records, health insurance, EHR, PHR, Grants, Aetna, Heatlh IT, HIE, Mergers and Acquisitions, Contracts, ONC, United
Mr. Chopra is definitely a cheer leader and has the ideas going in the right direction and offers some good ideas and examples of where they are going and how the challenge programs are working to bring those to the table for the challenge. He mentions Epocrates and says he doesn’t know a doctor today...
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on Wed, Sep 1 2010
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, health insurance, Health IT, HIE, Health 2.0, HIT, healthcare reform, aggregation, infrastructure, Aneesh Chopra, broadband, Blue Button, pilot programs