Xerox Corp. has won a potential $105 million contract to continue supporting Medicaid healthcare delivery in New Mexico, the company announced Tuesday. The state’s Human Services Department awarded the 58-month contract to manage and upgrade the state’s Medicaid Management Information System. Medicaid recipients will view their own eligibility data online, request new identification cards and [...]
Kofax will provide a military branch with document capture programs for processing personnel health forms, medical lab reports, heart test results and other medical documents. The company said the customer will route the resulting images and data to a Microsoft SharePoint application for easy access by employees. Capture scans documents and forms to create digital [...]
Harris Corp. has launched a health information exchange for the state of Oregon, the company announced Monday. The international communications and information technology provider said the Oregon Health Authority will administer the CareAccord system. OHA selected Harris to provide the system after receiving federal funding to implement a statewide health information sharing solution in conjunction [...]
Xerox is partnering with an Orange, Ca.-based healthcare exchange provider to provide a provide a health insurance exchange solution in all 50 states, Xerox announced Friday. CHOICE Administrators Exchange Solutions and Xerox will offer the cloud-based HIXsolution suite, which the companies expect to be fully operational by October 2013 enrollments and for January 2014 coverage [...]
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology released new guidelines outlining its 10-step plan to protect sensitive patient information, Information Week reports. ONC said medical practices must identify potential risks and formulate plans of actions to integrate privacy and security into their operations. In order to do so, it recommends healthcare providers [...]
Harris Corp. will help the Department of Veterans Affairs implement updates to its system for searching codes that are used to diagnose patients. According to a Thursday company release, the VA is transitioning from the ninth version of the International Classification of Diseases to the tenth version. VA users will have a new search functionality [...]
The Electronic Health Records Association wants to modify the reporting process used by healthcare providers to qualify for stage two of the meaningful use initiative, Information Week reports. Under the the 2009 HITECH Act, physicians are eligible to receive up to $44,000 in incentives from Medicare for meaningful use of electronic health records starting in [...]
