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MINNEAPOLIS, MN – Dec 6, 2010 – Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, today announced that it will highlight medication safety and patient care through its Facts & Comparisons eAnswers drug reference solutions at the 45^th American Society of Health System Pharmacists (ASHP) Midyear Clinical Meeting. Also exhibiting at ASHP is Pharmacy OneSource, a leading healthcare Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider that helps hospitals manage the complex challenges of patient safety, compliance and efficiency. Wolters Kluwer announced on November 29th that it has entered into an agreement to purchase Pharmacy OneSource.

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.

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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.

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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.

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MINNEAPOLIS, MN (Nov. 15, 2010) — Access to advanced clinical decision support (CDS) tools, such as evidence-based order sets and trusted clinical content, prior to system rollout is emerging as a successful strategy for ensuring user proficiency with and adoption of CPOE. As such, a growing number of hospitals are turning to ProVation® Order Sets, powered by UpToDate® Decision Support, the industry-leading electronic order set solution from Wolters Kluwer Health.

TAMPA, Fla. – November 15, 2010 – HealthPlan Holdings, Inc. (“HealthPlan”) today announced that it has appointed John S. Watts, Jr., a former executive with WellPoint, Inc., to chairman.  HealthPlan is a leading provider of outsourcing solutions to insurers in the individual, small business, union trust and voluntary benefits markets.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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MINNEAPOLIS, MN — November 8, 2010— Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that Exempla Healthcare has selected its ProVation® MD software for gastroenterology and pulmonary procedure documentation and coding. ProVation MD will be deployed across three hospitals in the nationally recognized Exempla Healthcare System.

MINNEAPOLIS, MN (October 26, 2010) — Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that Centegra Health System has selected ProVation^® Order Sets, powered by UpToDate^® Decision Support, as the electronic order set solution for the system’s three hospitals.

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.

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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.

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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.

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