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 [...]
Kent Buchanan is chief technology officer and vice president of engineering for Harris Corp., where he works to integrate dual-purpose technologies for defense, national intelligence, and healthcare customers, among others. Prior to joining Harris’ leadership team, he spent time at companies such as Motorola and General Electric and served as an Air Force officer, where he [...]
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 [...]
IBM Corp. has won two contracts from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Department of Homeland Security, the Washington Business Journal reports. CMS awarded the company $11.69 million to provide information and technology services for an integrated accounting system, designed to replace the current separate systems for accounting and payments for Medicare [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
