New Mexico’s Human Services Department is renewing its partnership with Xerox through a 58-month, $105 million contract to manage and enhance the state’s delivery of quality health care to Medicaid recipients. Xerox has administered Medicaid services for New Mexico since 1994. Last year, Xerox processed 23 million claims and handled $3.5 billion in Medicaid payments.
Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin has signed a new health care bill into law that will create a health insurance exchange and continue the state’s push toward a single payer health system. Several hundred million dollars in federal subsidies will be available to make the policies more affordable. The bill follows another which set up a [...]
A few weeks ago, Utah had a significant breach in the security of health and Medicaid patient records. According to press accounts of the incident, despite state protocols requiring the data to be wiped in the event of a breach, records sat exposed for months effecting some 280,000 people. Now, the technology director for the [...]
Oregon Governor Kitzhaber and the Obama Administration have agreed to coordinate care for Medicaid beneficiaries in Oregon, through a new model of care that aims to cut costs in Oregon’s Medicaid program by at least two percentage points within two years while improving health outcomes. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has [...]
Today the New York City Investment Fund (NYCIF) joined the New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) and the NYS Department of Health (DOH) to launch the New York Digital Health Accelerator (NYDHA), a program that aims to make New York a hub for the emerging digital health technology industry. In upcoming months the program will choose [...]
Health Information Technology continues to draw interest from big IT firms and venture capitalists seeking to get in on one of the more lucrative aspects of the health care boom. All aspects of health care are looking at ways to streamline care, handle a glut of medical data and manage shifting demographics, regulation and organizations. [...]
Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) has been selected by the state of Maryland to replace the state’s Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS). The company will also serve as a fiscal agent for selected Department of Health and Mental Hygiene programs. The five year contract is valued at $297 million.
Republican lawmakers in the Minnesota statehouse are proposing a new alternative to health insurance exchanges – personal savings accounts. They call the plan a free-market alternative to proposals from Democratic Governor Mark Dayton and federal health care reform requirements.
CoreLink Data Centers has announced a significant increase in its Health IT portfolio with the addition of HealthCare Strategies (HCS) to its client roster. HCS provides clinical data-based analytics, and predictive modeling for health care.
Ohio is pushing forward on a ten-fold boost to its broadband network speeds. In an event today that included Governor Kasich and researchers from Ohio State, University of Cincinnati, Summa Western Reserve Hospital and Case Western Reserve University officials outlined the state’s plan to become a world leader in medical research.
