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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Chrysler, Nissan break up pact
Posted on August 27, 2009 at 7:28 am
Six months after saying so in code, Nissan and Chrysler have ended their vehicle-development partnership wherein Nissan supplied small cars and Chrysler built full-size trucks.
Nissan spokesman Fred Standish said Fiat wasn’t involved in any of the discussions. Standish stressed that the company was committed to stay in the North American truck market.
“We are looking at a variety of options,” he said.
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Passport’s new partner
Posted on July 13, 2009 at 11:42 amPassport Health Communications announced this morning that it has entered into a new strategic partnership with New Paltz, New York-based Bluemark, LLC.
FRANKLIN, Tenn. – The list of revenue cycle management companies partnering with Passport Health Communications, Inc. continues to grow with the addition of Bluemark LLC. The companies have entered a business partnership agreement to help health care providers increase revenue by decreasing bad debt and uncompensated care.
Technology and services from Bluemark and Passport drastically reduce or eliminate the costs associated with health care providers giving care to patients who cannot pay by determining which patients are eligible for state Medicaid programs or qualify for charity care or other assistance. Web-based charity care assessment technology from Bluemark alongside Passport’s eligibility verification and self-pay review provides a complete financial assessment for every patient. Passport’s address verification, credit scoring and credit card processing can also be utilized before the patient is treated to increase patient payments and eliminate potential bad debt.
According to Passport CEO Scott MacKenzie, approximately 10 percent of patients who are treated as self-pay are actually covered by or qualify for Medicaid. A hospital with an average daily volume of 1,000 patients and average claim value of $400 can conceivably capture an additional $14.6 million in annual revenue just by screening self-pay patients and identifying the 10 percent with Medicaid eligibility.
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ICA teams with CDS to offer EHRs to John Q. P
Posted on June 30, 2009 at 12:43 pmNashville’s Informatics Corp. of America announced today that it has joined forces with South Carolina-based Companion Data Services to market a new combined product that will:
offer heath care consortiums and state agencies the capability to electronically move clinical information among disparate health care information systems and facilitate access to and retrieval of clinical data to provide higher quality, patient-centered care.
ICA’s CEO Gary Zegiestowsky said of the partnership:
The ability to deploy systems that add value to long-term investments in existing health care information technology is crucial, and the collective capabilities of ICA and CDS represent a powerhouse of resources.
OK, the new “solution” mentioned in this announcement isn’t being marketed to individuals, but it made the acronym joke work.
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Passport spreading via kiosks
Posted on May 19, 2009 at 10:45 amPassport Health Communications has joined forces with Ohio-based NCR Corp. to combine their offerings.
FRANKLIN, Tenn. – Health care information technology and services company Passport Health Communications, Inc. and self-service patient registration leader NCR Corporation will integrate their respective revenue cycle management products and services for health care providers across the U.S.
NCR and Passport will develop and define a standard, integrated solution for hospitals and other facilities that automatically verifies insurance eligibility when patients register at the NCR MediKiosk™ or NCR Patient Portal. Passport’s credit card processing services can also be integrated to help providers facilitate patient collections.
“Patient access kiosks and self-service Web portals are in demand because they increase speed, accuracy and efficiency and create more patient-friendly processes,” said Passport Chief Sales and Marketing Officer Jeff Drake. “Together, Passport and NCR can enhance the efficiency of the registration process for both the patient and provider.”
While the number of affiliated companies in Passport’s business partnership program continues to grow, Passport has to date not made its services widely available via kiosks or patient Web portals. Passport chose to pursue a partnership with NCR because of NCR’s strength in the self-service market and its complementary reputation for reliable, innovative technology with good support.
“Increasing the efficacy and efficiency of front office activities can have a direct impact on improving revenue cycle. Integrating with Passport increases the benefit NCR solutions can have in this critical area,” said Raj Toleti, general manager, NCR Healthcare.
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