Ballmer’s busy day in Nashville
Posted on November 19, 2009 at 7:50 am
If you’re not in on the Tech Council’s Jan. 20 membership breakfast featuring Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, not to fear. The Nashville Health Care Council is taking advantage of the high-profile visit by scheduling some face time with Ballmer for its own members in the form of a panel discussion on health care IT. Though it will likely be a lunch event, the time and location are still being finalized.
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Emdeon moving forward with cost-savings index
Posted on November 13, 2009 at 7:53 am
The U.S. Healthcare Efficiency Index, set up a year ago by local e-payment heavyweight Emdeon to call attention to administrative waste in health care, has launched the data-gathering phase of its endeavor.
“This is a critical time as Congress struggles with how to design and fund healthcare reform. By serving as a central reference for tracking healthcare administrative efficiency, the Index provides a roadmap for additional healthcare cost savings that can help pay for reform. We are delighted to have such an experienced group of thought leaders join us in overseeing this important effort,” said Miriam Paramore, senior vice president of corporate strategy for Emdeon, the founding sponsor for the Index.
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notifyMD adds sales exec
Posted on November 12, 2009 at 8:32 amRay DeArmitt has joined Nashville-based doctor answering service notifyMD as executive vice president of sales. DeArmitt has more than two decades of industry experience and has spent time at big names like Allscripts and Emdeon. Don Mundie with The Buffkin Group handled DeArmitt’s placement.
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Local lab venture inks IT deal
Posted on November 11, 2009 at 7:20 amAmerican Pathology Partners, the two-year-old laboratory company co-founded and led by Marty Rash and Bob Yeager, has chosen a Pennsylvania company’s IT platform to connect its facilities with the EMRs of the physician practices it works with.
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Local health IT players collaborating
Posted on November 10, 2009 at 1:25 pmHealthStream and onFocus Healthcare have teamed up to jointly offer their services, which combine their learning and performance improvement software offerings. Or, in jargonese:
Using the Improvement Center, hospital leaders charged with improving outcomes can easily collaborate with their employees in real-time to effectively manage progress toward achieving their goals to improve HCAHPS scores, employee engagement, physician satisfaction, and a variety of other business and clinical outcomes.
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Shmerling adds to HealthStream stake
Posted on November 5, 2009 at 8:32 am
Nashville entrepreneur and HealthStream director Mike Shmerling this week boosted his stake in the online health educaton provider by almost 10 percent. Shmering now owns almost 0.6 percent of all HealthStream shares (Ticker: HSTM), which have risen more than 90 percent this year.
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Sy.Med gets Windows 7 friendly
Posted on November 2, 2009 at 11:11 amSy.Med Development has released a new version of its physician credentialing software, Sy.Med OneApp, that’s compatible with Microsoft’s newly-released Windows 7. The company works with more than 750 clients and 165,000 health care providers in 49 states.
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HIMSS absorbs Nashville medical biz
Posted on October 30, 2009 at 8:04 am
The Chicago-based Healthcare Information Management Systems Society, a nonprofit membership group, has acquired Nashville’s Medical Banking Project. Read about how the project will bring together health care IT and banking here.
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nTelagent announces product’s new engine
Posted on October 27, 2009 at 10:45 amRevenue cycle management company nTelagent announced the new Registration Interface Engine behind its Retail Application for Healthcare. The company said the engine lets hospitals implement nTelagent’s point-of-service collection system in a few days.
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AmeriChoice and Meharry partner for telehealth
Posted on at 7:51 amMembers of AmeriChoice by UnitedHealthcare of Tennessee who live in rural or underserved areas will have access to the physicians of Meharry Medical Group via a telehealth network announced Monday. The agreement with Meharry Medical College is an expansion of AmeriChoice’s telehealth program with Community Health Network.
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Passport Health adds eCashiering
Posted on October 15, 2009 at 7:19 amPassport Health Communications has enhanced its payment processing services with an eCashering solution that adds electronic check payment processing, payment plans and Internet and phone payments to Passport’s services for front-end patient payment collection.
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HMS prepping new EMR product
Posted on October 14, 2009 at 9:37 am
Nashville-based clinical software shop Healthcare Management Systems says it will soon roll out an electronic medical record aimed specifically at outpatient facilities and doctor practices.
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Health IT venture in THA alliance
Posted on October 7, 2009 at 10:38 amCredenceHealthcare has partnered with the consulting arm of the Tennessee Hospital Association. The Brentwood-based company will market its Web-based clinical software to facilities around the state.
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Insurance software venture in consulting alliance
Posted on October 5, 2009 at 12:31 pmBrentwood-based Specific Software Solutions has hooked up with a Florida-based workers’ compensation insurance consulting firm to gain access to new agents for its modeling software.
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Medical transcription venture adds sales exec
Posted on October 1, 2009 at 10:40 am
SPi Healthcare, the medical transcription division of a Phillipines telecommunications company, has hired a former University of Pittsburgh Medical Center manager to expand its East Coast presence.
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