Healthcare IT News - March 2009 - (Page 30) 30 Healthcare IT News March 2009 ■ www.HealthcareITNews.com NEWSBRIEFS BloudhouNd uNvEIlS NEW claImS EdItINg platFoRm Bloodhound Technologies, based in Durham, N.C., has launched ConVergence Point, a new claims editing platform that’s designed to speed up the process. The application draws upon a patient’s complete medical history, payer rules and reimbursement policies and Bloodhound’s 16 million sourced clinical edits to process claims in 350 milliseconds. The company also offers a pre-adjudication editing platform, allowing providers to identify operational efficiencies as well as identify overpayments and correct miscoded claims before submission. ‘Big Brother’ technology has its benefits Spector Soft helps providers track computer use. By ErIC WICkluNd, Managing Editor VERO BEACH, FL – SalaR, StREamlINE hEalth to maRkEt BuNdlEd SolutIoN Salar, Inc., a Baltimore-based provider of electronic clinical document solutions, has announced a partnership with Cincinnatibased Streamline Health Solutions, Inc. to offer a bundled electronic document management solution. Under the agreement, Salar will offer its TeamNotes Embedded software as an extension of Streamline Health’s accessANYware electronic document management and archiving solution. The solution is designed to allow hospitals to quickly and efficiently complete and archive electronic patient charts. Healthcare providers looking to control waste and protect sensitive data are turning to a monitoring program to keep tabs on their employees. Spector Soft, based in Vero Beach, Fla., offers a range of Web-based services designed to monitor the computer work- stations of employees, charting Soft’s products were developed everything from the Web sites for corporate use – including they visit to how much time they schools, government facilities spend using an and healththE NEWS: Spector Soft offers ➔ application. care se ttings computer monitoring software. “ We h av e – about six What It mEaNS: Hospitals can years ago. The one story after ➔ reduce wasteful computer use – as company’s siganother of very well as keep tabs on illegal uses. nature product, highly paid Spector 360, doctors abusing the Internet,” said Doug was released three years ago. According to Taylor, Spector Taylor, Spector Soft’s director of Soft software is loaded into each marketing. Designed about 10 years ago computer and masked so that it to help parents monitor their can’t be located by the user. The children’s computer use, Spector CoNTrol see page 31 Spector Soft’s software, originally designed to help parents keep tabs on their childrns’ computer use, is now being used by hospitals to monitor and regulate workstations. aveksa helps hospitals govern inside access By ErIC WICkluNd, Managing Editor WALTHAM, MA Who/what is holding up mobile technology? A recent survey asked 169 healthcare professionals to rate the biggest obstacle to the implementation of mobile point of care technology. mEtavaNtE INtRoducES WEalthcaRE maNagER Metavante, a Milwaukee-based provider of banking and payments technology, has announced the availability of WealthCare Manager. The personal health record solution is designed to pull together all of a consumer’s health and healthcare financial information. “The integration of a PHR solution with existing Metavante healthcare benefits, claims and payment solutions closes the CDH loop by re-purposing the claims and benefit account information already managed by solutions like HealthGateway and BenSoft,” said John Reynolds, president of Metavante Healthcare Payment Solutions. CareTools rides the crest of iPhone wave By ErIC WICkluNd, Managing Editor – While hospitals and healthcare providers are on a constant lookout for cyber-based attacks from without, the threat from within is just as real. For instance, John Halamka, chief information officer for the Boston-based CareGroup Health System, says his network fires two to three people a year who illegally gain access to medical records. To determine who within a healthcare organization gets to look at what records, hospitals are deploying access gover- nance solutions. Among the vendors providing such ser vices i s Wa l t h a m , Mass.-based Aveksa, Inc., Brian Cleary which recently launched Aveksa Access Request and Change Manager. According to Brian Cleary, Aveksa’s vice president of marketing and products, the company’s enterprise access governance platform creates a database of CrEdENTIal see page 31 30% 30% 40% e ● Connect: GraPHS 0309 SoURCE: HEAlTHCAREGoESMoBIlE.CoM, 2009 EpocRatES lauNchES NEW SuItE FoR IphoNE, Ipod touch Epocrates, Inc., of San Mateo, Calif., has introduced the Epocrates Essentials suite for iPhone and iPod Touch operating systems. Building upon the Epocrates Rx free drug and formulary reference last year, the expanded application offers disease and diagnostic resources developed exclusively for the iPhone platform, allowing clinicians to access critical information at the point of care and cross-link between drug, disease and diagnostic content. More at HealthcareITNews.com e Connect: VeNDorS 0309 ● The iPhone has been getting a lot of love lately from the medical community. Apple’s popular product was front-andcenter at last month’s Towards the Electronic Patient Record (TEPR+) show and conference in Palm Springs. Besides being included in the conference’s focus on mobile health applications, a new application designed to connect physicians with electronic medical records was bestowed with a “Hot Product” mention. CareTools, based in Westlake Village, Calif., earned second-place honors for its iChart. Thomas Giannulli, MD, the company’s CEO, said the application has generated 100 new users a month since it was launched five months ago. “You don’t have to add anything else,” he said. “We’ve taken away every barrier (that doctors might have or think of ) to using an EMR.” The iChart application is offered for a one-time fee of $139.99, with Web service PALM SPRINGS, CA – “We’ve take away every barrier (that doctors might think of) to using an EmR.” – Thomas Giannuli offered for $99 a year after that (the first year is offered free of charge). The product is compliant with products certified by the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) and features iNotes, iBilling, iPrescribing and iLab Reports. There’s also an interface with Allscripts products. Giannulli said iChart was created specifically for the iPhone and iPod Touch, and the company is keeping an eye on smartphones being developed by Palm and Windows. “We’ll probably be the first on those plat- forms, too,” he said. The company is now working on an interface with Microsoft’s HealthVault platform and is developing inbox capabilities for PHRs. Giannulli hopes to develop more uses for lab data and coordination with hospital data. “The last mile is in the doctor’s hand,” he said. The proliferation – and popularity – of healthcare-related applications for mobile devices was one of the key themes at TEPR+. The show and conference included presentations by Giannulli as well as executives from Diversinet, All One Health Group, WellDoc, BeWell Mobile Technology, Leap of Faith Technologies and M*Modal. C. Peter Waegemann, CEO of the Bostonbased Medical records Insttitute (which organizes TEPR+) and executive director of the Center for Cell Phone Applications in Healthcare, said more than 120 healthcare IT vendors have developed products for mobile devices like cellphones, smartphones ICHarT see page 31 http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.HEAlTHCAREGoESMoBIlE.CoM http://www.HealthcareITNews.com
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