Client News Coverage

COSTA MESA, Calif. – Dec. 2010 – CardFlex, Inc., a financial services and payment solution company, has appointed Ed Barbara as chief revenue officer. In this position, Barbara will be responsible for expanding the firm’s presence in direct response marketing, establishing new vertical markets and creating new revenue streams.

Maddux News Wire»

College of Notre Dame of Maryland is the recipient of a Facts & Comparisons “ACE” Award from Wolters Kluwer Health. The $10,000 grant will be used to develop drug information (DI) and pharmacy informatics curricula in the School of Pharmacy.

Wolters Kluwer Health has entered into an agreement to acquire Pharmacy OneSource, a healthcare software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider that helps hospitals manage patient safety, compliance and efficiency.

CMIO»

In early July, Palmetto Physician Connections, a medical home network of physicians, formed with the goal of coordinating better care at a lower cost for South Carolina’s Medicaid population. According to Palmetto’s Medical Director and family physician Gerald Harmon, M.D., his goal is to recruit 2,000 OB/GYNs, internists, family physicians, and pediatricians by 2011 Q1 to bolster the around 200 providers currently in the Palmetto network.

Healthcare Informatics»

The data integrity and patient safety challenges confronting hospitals as they implement electronic health records (EHRs) and the evolving practice of health information management (HIM) to manage those issues are the focus of a joint presentation by Just Associates, Inc. and Exempla Healthcare at the 2010 Congress of International Federation of Health Record Organizations (IFHRO) underway in Milan.

Executive Insights»

Executives at HealthPlan Holdings Inc. appointed John S. Watts, Jr. as the company’s new chairman. Based in Tampa, HealthPlan provides outsourcing services to insurance companies.

Gulf Coast Business Review»

To qualify for incentive payments from Medicare and Medicaid under the HITECH Act, provider organizations must document meaningful use of electronic health records. That will require the collecting, organizing and reporting of initially 20 measures of meaningful use for eligible professionals and 19 measures for hospitals, with more measures coming in 2013 and 2015.

HealthData Management»

Exempla Healthcare, a Denver-based nonprofit health system, has selected Wolters Kluwer Health’s ProVation MD software for gastroenterology and pulmonary procedure documentation and coding.

Cardiovascular Business»

The clock is ticking on the deadline to begin submitting claims utilizing ICD-10 code sets, yet few hospitals have made significant inroads into the transition. With no indication that the October 2013 deadline will change, facilities that are not already deep into the transition will find themselves scrambling to comply -- not an ideal approach to a process that will ultimately drive billing and reimbursement.

ExecutiveInsight»

Union Hospital of Cecil County, a 122-bed nonprofit hospital located in Elkton, Md., has selected business intelligence software developer Wolters Kluwer Health’s ProVation order sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, as the organization's electronic order set program.

Cardiovascular Business»

Union Hospital of Cecil County, a 122-bed nonprofit hospital located in Elkton, Md., has selected business intelligence software developer Wolters Kluwer Health’s ProVation order sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, as the organization's electronic order set program.

CMIO»

Union Hospital of Cecil County, a 122-bed nonprofit hospital located in Elkton, Md., has selected business intelligence software developer Wolters Kluwer Health’s ProVation order sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, as the organization's electronic order set program.

HealthImaging.com»

Wolters Kluwer Health, a provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced that Platte Valley Medical Center has selected its ProVation MD software for gastroenterology procedure documentation and coding.

Cyber Media»

Given six options, executives at 26 large health plans picked compliant risk acquisition and retention as their top-priority concern related to health reform implementation, according to a survey done for HealthPlan Services.

AIS Healthcare Reform Week»