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Breaking Healthcare News February 29, 2012
Today’s Healthcare Headlines:
- Illinois hospital evacuates patients in wake of tornado
Inpatients at 74-bed Harrisburg (Ill.) Medical Center were evacuated to nearby hospitals after a tornado that struck the Southern Illinois town may have damaged the hospital’s building, according to Melaney Arnold, a spokeswoman for the Illinois…
- Blue Shield of Calif. says IPA violated contract
Blue Shield of California is seeking at least $10.5 million from Monarch HealthCare, an independent practice association, for alleged contract violations that cost the insurer enrollees.
- Jackson CEO plans to cut over 1,000 jobs
Jackson Health System President and CEO Carlos Migoya announced a plan to cut 1,115 jobs and make other changes to save $91 million a year in personnel costs as the large public hospital system struggles to realign its cost structure.
- HL7 readies Blue Button conversion tool
Health Level Seven, the Ann Arbor, Mich.-based standards development organization, announced that by April it will have a file conversion tool and user’s guide to adapt its Continuity of Care Document message transport specification to the Blue…
- TeleTech buys analytics provider iKnowtion
TeleTech Holdings, an Englewood, Colo.-based consulting and information technology company, has acquired marketing analytics company iKnowtion, based in Burlington, Mass.
- T-System buys Clinical Coding Solutions
Dallas-based emergency medicine documentation-systems vendor T-System has acquired Clinical Coding Solutions, a Kansas City, Mo.-based company that provides coding and charge services for hospital emergency departments. Terms of the deal were not…
- VA, Defense Department name leader of EHR effort
Barclay Butler, a former Army Medical Department CIO and executive at Harris Corp., will lead an effort by the U.S. Defense and Veterans Affairs departments to update and connect the agencies’ electronic health-record systems.
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