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TAMPA, Fla. – Jan. 10, 2013 – MedHOK, one of the healthcare industry’s fastest growing software companies, announced today that it has achieved Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS®) Software Certification for its 360Measures®, version 2.56, from the National Committee for Quality Assurance’s (NCQA). This marks the third consecutive year MedHOK has achieved this certification by successfully passing all 68 program measures, including the CAHPS sample frames, and the systematic sampling methodology.

Minneapolis, Minn. — Jan. 3, 2013— Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that ProVation^® Order Sets, powered by UpToDate^® Decision Support, was ranked by KLAS as the top order set software in its annual report on the clinical decision support solutions market. Clinical Decision Support 2012: Order Sets, Care Plans, Drug Databases[i] also ranked Medi-Span^® highest among drug database vendors for configurability and a close second in alert types enabled.

MADISON, Wis. – Jan. 3, 2013 – Amphion Medical Solutions, an innovative provider of transcription and coding technology and outsourcing services, announced today the release of enhancements to its Triton Transcription Client (TTC). A feature of the Triton Health Document Cloud™ complete transcription solution, TTC enables higher levels of productivity and faster turnaround of fully-edited clinical documentation, resulting in cost efficiencies and ensuring important patient data is available to key stakeholders in a timely manner.

Minneapolis, Minn. — Dec. 31, 2012— Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, ranked second overall among software vendors in the 2012 Top 20 Best in KLAS Awards: Software and Professional Services report. Only Epic outranked the company in the annual report from KLAS, an independent healthcare IT vendor research firm that recognizes healthcare vendors for their leadership in working with customers to ensure satisfaction.

Despite the myriad and often complex ways of attempting to achieve it, the goal of healthcare reform is to improve care while decreasing cost. Incentives put in place as part of the HITECH Act give reimbursements to physicians who convert from paper-based records to electronic medical records (EMRs) – although the ultimate cost savings of EMRs is still being disputed.

Health Management Technology»

SILVER SPRING, M.D. – (Dec. 27, 2012) –Kinetic Analysis Corp., a leader in multi-model impact forecasting and risk assessment for catastrophic events, has appointed Steven Stichter as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Stichter replaces Jan Vermeiren, who will now serve as the company’s board chairman.

MINNEAPOLIS, MN — (Dec. 27, 2012) — Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that its ProVation^® MD software received top ranking in the Clinical Procedure Documentation Category of the 2012 Top 20 Best in KLAS Awards: Software and Professional Services report. This is the sixth consecutive year that ProVation MD has received the top honor in this category from KLAS, an independent healthcare IT vendor research firm that recognizes healthcare vendors for their leadership in working with customers to ensure satisfaction.

CENTENNIAL, Colo. – Dec. 27, 2012 – Just Associates, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in data integrity and data quality solutions for healthcare organizations, has appointed Tami Montroy, MS, RHIA, CCS, as its director of data reconciliation services. In this role, Montroy will be responsible for managing the growth and day-to-day operations of the division, as well as interacting with client executives to ensure all service level and budget projections are met and quality expectations exceeded.

Hospital readmissions are costly and often preventable events. Yet intense efforts to decrease readmissions rates and avoid penalties under the 2010 federal healthcare reform law have yet to have a significant impact, as one in five hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries are still being readmitted within 30 days of discharge.

Government Health IT»

An Accountable Care Organization (ACO) is only as successful as the sum of its fundamental parts. Failure by just one participating provider to achieve a successful outcome on any of the 33 required quality measures could ultimately stand between the ACO and its eligibility for incentives under the Medicare Fee-for-Service Shared Savings Program.

HISTalk»

Allison Errickson, CPC-H, director of coding compliance for ProVation Medical, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, discusses the biggest challenges for ambulatory surgery centers with quality reporting for The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and what to watch for in the future.

Becker's Clinical Quality & Infection Control»

MINNEAPOLIS, MN — Dec. 4, 2012— Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that Covenant HealthCare has selected its ProVation^® Order Sets, powered by UpToDate^® Decision Support, software as its electronic order set solution.

MINNEAPOLIS, MN — (Dec. 3, 2012) — Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah has selected its ProVation^® MultiCaregiver as the organization’s electronic health record and patient charting solution.

MINNEAPOLIS, MN — (Nov. 30, 2012) — Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today general availability of its integration interface between Epic and ProVation^® Care Plans. Developed in collaboration with Duke University Health System, this interface enables hospitals to create and customize care plans via the ProVation software and then make finished care plans available in the Epic inpatient clinical platform.