Global Technology Resources, Inc. Selects Health Language to Support its Armed Forces Clinical Database Contract

As fierce as the presidential candidates are, the pollsters trying to call this race, in some instances even proposing wagers, are every bit as fiery and even more personal in their repartee.

City employees in Billings, Montana can now access their personal health records online, as part of pilot project stemming from the ONC. In Florida, Medicaid recipients can do the same, to manage records online and also tap a number of health resources.

Health Dialog announced that it will support the High Value Healthcare Collaborative (HVHC) in delivering a program designed to meet the Triple Aim using an innovative Shared Decision Making approach. The Shared Decision Making program is the largest and most comprehensive of its kind, funded through a $26 million Innovation award from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) to HVHC. The project is supported by Funding Opportunity Number CMS-1C1-12-0001 from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. The HVHC award was the second highest to be made across the 107 recipients selected from more than 3,000 applicants.

There is no short- or long-term advantage for employers to eliminate group health benefits in favor of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) penalties, according to a white paper published today by Truven Health Analytics, formerly the Healthcare business of Thomson Reuters.

Delta Solutions and Technologies, Inc., a fast-growing provider of management and IT consulting services to the U.S. Government, has been awarded a contract with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center (NITAAC) to provide information technology (IT) services to federal agencies.

Ron Paul garnered delegates in Iowa, Maine and Nevada, furthering his chances to making it to the GOP convention, while President Obama reinforced his take on health reform.

A new report by the Institute for Health Technology Transformation finds that, under health reform, leveraging IT and focusing on population health management are a top priority for many providers.

Health Language, Inc.(HLI), the global leader in medical terminology management, announced today that it will introduce the claims analytics module of its LEAP I-10 tool at the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) Fall 2011 Conference being held Oct. 24-27 at the Hyatt Regency in Baltimore, Md. The module, which enables insurers and providers to analyze and simulate the financial impact of the transition from ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM/PCS diagnosis and procedure code sets, will be demonstrated at the HLI booth.