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- Geisinger to Deploy New Financial Eligibility Solution
- NY Downtown Hospital: Single EHR Across Venues
- Two Nursing Informatics Leaders Win at ANI
| Geisinger to Deploy New Financial Eligibility Solution Posted: 13 Jan 2010 08:08 AM PST Geisinger Health System (Danville, Pa.), one of the nation's largest integrated healthcare delivery systems, is implementing Atlanta-based RelayHealth' s RevRunner eligibility solution to improve patients' understanding of their health insurance coverage. According to the company, the product automatically uses multiple means to verify the most current and complete data on a patient's coverage, copayments, coinsurance and deductibles. It will also, it touts, help improve Geisinger's verification process by providing unlimited eligibility checks from the scheduling of services through discharge and final billing to verify payor and patient financial responsibilities. Geisinger is comprised of two medical center campuses, three hospitals, a 740-member group practice, a not-for-profit health insurance company and the Henry Hood Center for Health Research-dedicated to creating innovative new models for patient care, satisfaction and clinical outcomes. |
| NY Downtown Hospital: Single EHR Across Venues Posted: 13 Jan 2010 08:06 AM PST New York Downtown Hospital (New York Downtown) signed on for new integrated solutions from Atlanta-based Eclipsys that the company says will create a single EHR across venues. New technology solutions include Sunrise Acute Care for CPOE, Sunrise Pharmacy and Sunrise Emergency Care. In combination, says the company, these applications will create a single and unified view of up-to-date patient information from the emergency room to bedside and into the hospital pharmacy. New York Downtown also opted to deploy Eclipsys Sunrise Record Manager solution to free up valuable storage space, facilitate comprehensive chart tracking and requests, chart completion, release of information, electronic signature and medical record abstracting. In addition, the hospital has renewed its services agreement with Eclipsys to support it in major aspects of the IT project and ongoing system maintenance. New York Downtown Hospital (NYDH) is the closest acute care hospital to the 600,000 people who work and live in Lower Manhattan, NYDH's mission is to serve the people who comprise the diverse business and residential communities of Wall Street, Chinatown, SoHo, TriBeCa, Battery Park City and the Lower East Side. Each year, the Hospital has more than 37,000 emergency visits, 146,000 outpatient visits, 11,000 inpatients, 5,300 outpatient surgeries and 2,400 new babies born. |
| Two Nursing Informatics Leaders Win at ANI Posted: 13 Jan 2010 08:02 AM PST Two nurses have won recognition as emerging leaders in the field of nursing informatics, selected by the Chicago-based Alliance for Nursing Informatics (ANI) to participate in a jointly supported Nursing Informatics Emerging Leaders Program. This inaugural program aims to develop leaders capable of assuming national leadership positions in an informatics-related organization, says the organization. The two emerging leaders selected are: Ellen Makar, RN-BC, MSN, of Yale–New Haven Health System, Conn.; and Sandra Ng, RN-BC, MSN, UCSF Medical Center, part of the University of California, San Francisco. ANI and its Nursing Informatics Emerging Leaders Program are jointly supported by the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA, Bethesda, Md.)) and the Chicago-based Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). |
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