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Cleveland Clinic's online second opinion service
The Washington Post looks at the success of MyConsult, a web-based second opinion service developed by the Cleveland Clinic. For a fee of $565, a specialist will conduct an online consultation and provide patients with a written second opinion. The newspaper also examines a similar service run by Partners Healthcare in Boston.
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... Read more...SPOTLIGHT: Emdeon cuts 2006 forecast, Tony Holcombe resigns
More problems at Emdeon as the company (the former dot-com known as WebMD) reports president Tony Holcombe will leave to pursue "other business opportunities." The company also revised its forecast downward for 2006. Although Emdeon is largely focused on its content business, it also offers a relatively popular Web-based claims service for physicians. Article
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... Read more...CSI plan stresses financial incentives for IT adoption
A federal panel has released its recommendations on steps the government should take to encourage the growth of a secure national electronic medical records system. The Commission on System Interoperability released a 14-point list of suggestions yesterday. Topping the list of policy recommendations are financial incentives for physicians and other healthcare providers to adopt EMR technologies and the creation of a single entity to oversee standards in the emerging field.
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... Read more...HIT: WebMD Health shows good gains following IPO
Shares of WebMD Health rose nicely yesterday following the company's IPO. The stock rose nearly 40 percent to $25 per share in the first day of trading and appears to be continuing its upward march today. The thinking on Wall Street is that WebMD Health, a specialist in consumer health information, is well-positioned to take advantage of the growing interest in consumer directed care. Meanwhile, the old WebMD is continuing along under the new name of Emdeon, providing web-based claims …
... Read more...IT: Is Soarian starting to finally soar?
HealthAlliance says it has installed a full implementation of Siemens Medical Systems' Soarian web-based hospital IT system in its Leominister, MA. facility to track both patient medical data and finances. Soarian is the flagship product from Siemens, which purchased hospital software and services giant Shared Medical Systems (SMS) to get into the health care IT market in 2000. However, Soarian has been best by problems and while more than a hundred customers have been announced, the …
... Read more...IT: McKesson to acquire Medcon for $105 million
Health IT specialist McKesson said today that it will purchase Medcon, a provider of web-based cardiac image and information management systems in a deal valued at $105 million. McKesson provider technologies president Pamela Pure said that the deal gives the company an edge in cornering the cardiology market. "Less than 15% of hospitals in the US have a robust, integrated solution for cardiology, which next to radiology is the largest producer and consumer of images and associated …
... Read more...IT: TennCare to experiment with online records
BCBS of Tennessee says it plans to experiment with an online system which will let doctors participating in TennCare to access patient medical records from databases across the organization using a web-based system. BCBS of Tennessee says a secure web portal will allow doctors to increase efficiency and eliminate cases of potential fraud and abuse. A limited trial in Memphis and Chattanooga has shown the system to work. The company says it will expand the pilot to include all 700,000 of …
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