Hewlett-Packard’s system for managing Medicaid information in Georgia now holds full federal certification from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the company announced Tuesday. Georgia’s Department of Community Health uses the system and the state will receive full federal funding as a result of CMS’ approval, the company said. Twelve HP interChange systems have [...]
Harris Corp. has won a $1.2 million contract to develop a health computing device for the Department of Veterans Affairs’ health eligibility center. The Melbourne, Fla.-based communications firm said Monday it will create a business rules repository designed to streamline and migrate enrollment and eligibility business rules to a centralized rules engine. Business analysts will [...]
Deloitte has established a new research hub in the U.K. to collaborate with healthcare and life sciences customers in that country, the company announced Tuesday. The Centre for Health Solutions aims to promote an environment for sharing future health solutions, research and evidence-based analysis in the health and life sciences industry. Karen Taylor, former director [...]
A recent healthcare industry survey report indicates that 69 percent of healthcare organizations suffered more than one security breach in 2011 despite conducting regular risk analysis, according to the InformationWeek. According to the report from Kroll Advisory Solutions and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, organizations have a checklist mentality for compliance with security [...]
HP Enterprise Services has helped 20 states upgrade their Medicaid programs to meet standards for compliance with federal legislation, the company announced Tuesday. The moves correlates with updated standards under the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. The HIPAA 5010 law outlines standards for processing Medicaid, Medicare, commercial claims and administrative transactions. The company [...]
The White House is working to adapt a new program for procuring Medicare equipment, the New York Times reports. The shift to a competitive bidding process resulted from a one-year experiment where Medicare solicited bids and awarded contracts to 356 suppliers in nine metropolitan areas. Medicare’s usual fee-for-service process lets beneficiaries to select any supplier [...]
CGI Federal has released an updated version of an open source initiative for a national health information exchange, the company announced Thursday. The company developed the Connect gateway under a contract with the Federal Health Architecture within the Department of Health and Human Services. In December 2011, the company won a potential $93.7 million contract [...]
