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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
