Even as a majority of physicians in solo or small practices around the country continue to struggle with mounds of paper records, two physicians in rural Georgia and Florida have recently joined t...
Former ProxyMed President and COO Nancy Ham took the post of president at Andover, Mass.-based Sentillion. Allen Shultzhas joined AnyDoc Software in Tampa, Fla., as its new business deve...
St. Petersburg, Fla.-based EpicTide, Inc., has reached an agreement with faculty at the University of Florida to work with the company on developing solutions for emerging challenges in the commercial...
Florida and Oklahoma have awarded multi-million dollar contracts to Electronic Data Systems to handle their Medicaid programs.The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration a...
Doctors' Walk-In Clinics, an organization that employs 250 people at seven urgent care centers in the Tampa Bay area, plans to open a new paperless clinic by Oct. 1.Stephen Dick...
Alvin Lin, MD, a geriatrics specialist, in Las Vegas, has tallied 17 continuing medical education courses since April – all of them accomplished in "down time" – between flights, waiting f...
Care Level Management, a California medical group that delivers healthcare in the home, thanks in part to today's new high-tech tools, is planning a large expansion in the fall....
Florida's Medicaid program has chosen MEDai's Risk Navigator Clinical solution to forecast its Medicaid expenditures for its fiscal year, July 1, 2005, to June 30, 2006.The Stat...
Fujifilm offers SCAR scholarship to PACS adminFor the second year in a row, Fujifilm is offering a scholarship to enable a PACS administrator to attend the SCAR (Society for Computer Applic...
Memorial Healthcare System is preparing to open what it regards as the "hospital of the future," one in which paper is conspicuously absent.Well aware of the clinical and financ...
In a broad sense, advocacy is the act of supporting a cause or position to affect the common good. In the context of HIMSS, advocacy has taken on new meaning. It describes the proactive involvement of...
Availity, the joint venture between Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida and Humana, which was formed to provide clinical and administrative information to more than 80 percent of the providers in the fo...
Nauvalis Healthcare SolutionsHealthPort 3.0Booth 2013Nauvalis HealthPort 3.0 is an electronic document management system that assists in transition to an electronic health record. HealthPort allows ti...
IBM and Florida International University have launched two new projects that will use autonomic computing technologies to bring more security to patient records and reduce the time in the waiting roo...
In mid-September, with Hurricane Ivan threatening the Florida Panhandle, case managers at Baptist Health Care scrambled to discharge as many patients as possible before the storm struck....
DECEMBER12 – 14: National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care,Institute for Health Care Improvement, Orlando, Fla.January20 – 22: Industry and Technology Issues Conference, America...
Regional health information organizations, or RHIOs, are emerging as one important strategy in the country's overall plan for speeding the adoption of healthcare information technology....
Greater collaboration among healthcare professionals could prevent some of the tens of thousands of patient deaths and injuries that occur in hospitals and clinics each year, according to a recent exe...
HIMSS, the Healthcare Information and Management Society, has joined several groups that want to help doctors figure out what they need to do to convert their medical practices to digital records....
Kronos executives unveiled a new product and a new set of implementationmethodologies at the company's worldwide user conference, KronosWorks, in Orlando,Fla. While it may...
