Health Management Technology articles from August 2005

Health Management Technology archives from August 2005

News and old adages.(From the Editor)
August 1, 2005... If you like to read your good news first, skip down four paragraphs to the one that starts, "The good news is...." Meanwhile, the bad news is (to paraphrase the lyrics of a popular holiday song): "It's beginning to look a lot like HIPAA,...

Will Congress put money where its mouth is?(Legislative Watch, Part I)
August 1, 2005... From Maine to Michigan, U.S. legislators are introducing legislation that could put $4 billion to $5 billion on the table so providers can purchase, lease, upgrade, implement and train staff on IT systems, along with monies to build...

Industry reacts to flurry of healthcare IT bills.(Legislative Watch: Part II)
August 1, 2005... The Health TEQ bill was quickly endorsed by organizations such as the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA), the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives--but not without...

RFP process in full swing.(Nationwide Health Information Exchange)
August 1, 2005... Facing their first opportunity to grab the baton from the feds, contractors wait to see who will win the awards September 30 from the four RFPs issued in June by HHS. The RFPs challenge vendors to create processes for "harmonizing" standards,...

Race to certify EHRs--and collaborate--begins.(Electronic Health Records)(Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology)(California Healthcare Foundation)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) received a $219,000 grant from the California Healthcare Foundation (CHCF) in June to support the national certification process for EHRs, beginning with ambulatory EMR...

Value purchasing hinges on data sharing.(Statewide CDRs)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Data--collecting it, sharing it and utilizing it to understand and control healthcare costs--are the diamonds of this decade. In Wisconsin, a collaborative of health plans, healthcare systems and employers are about to create a private,...

Consumer reports rates web sites.(Health Web Sites)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... As 95 million American adults seek health information on the Internet, the nation's top watchdog and rater of products from autos to appliances is weighing in on consumer health Web sites. Consumer Reports WebWatch is rating the 20...

Market to hit $8.8 billion.(RFID)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... The market for radio frequency identification technology (RFID) will reach $8.8 billion by 2005, a study released by Chicago-based Fast Track Technologies Ltd. predicts. The study estimates that within the next five years, healthcare...

Almost half consider automating provisioning.(Security and Privacy)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Eighteen percent of healthcare providers have automated the process of creating, modifying or deleting user accounts, says a recent survey by IDC Research, a provider of market intelligence in IT and telecommunications. Almost half (45 percent)...

Association helps fight fraud.(Briefly)(American Health Information Management Association)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Association Helps Fight Fraud. AHIMA (the American Health Information Management Association) is pitching in to help reduce the incidence of healthcare fraud. The National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association says healthcare fraud costs the U.S....

Healthcare IT easier sell to Congress.(Briefly)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Healthcare IT Easier Sell to Congress. The House in June approved a $602 billion fiscal year 2006 Labor, Health & Human Services and Education spending bill that includes $75 million for healthcare IT. The bill (H.R. 3010) includes $58.1...

Endorsement of quality measurements mixed.(Pay for Performance)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Only 38 percent of adults support health insurance plans paying more to doctors if they provide better quality patient care, but a whopping 67 percent support P4P program--if those programs help to lower their own health insurance costs, too,...

The enterprise take on patient safety: IT systems to ensure patient safety aren't limited to the pharmacy or nurses' station. Whole organizations have embraced the patient safety initiative with an enterprise commitment and perspective.(information technology systems)
August 1, 2005... Despite Herculean efforts on the part of clinical staffs, medical errors still plague most hospitals. Mismatched blood types, surgical removal of healthy limbs and adverse drug reactions grab the headlines and perpetuate providers' fears of...

Bridge medical (an AmerisourceBergin Company).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Bar Coding 120 South Sierra Ave. Solona Beach, CA 92075 858-350-0100 MedPoint uses bar code scanning, expert clinical knowledge bases, wireless networking and integration capabilities. Bar code-enabled point-of-care system...

CPSI.(Patient Safety HotList)
August 1, 2005... CPOE 6600 Wall St. Mobile, AL 36695 800-711-2774 CPSI's Computerized Physician Order Entry is an interactive tool that uses the Internet to increase order process efficiency. Used with CPSI's ChartLink, CPOE provides a...

IntrinsiQ.(Patient Safety HotList)(IntelliDose)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... CPOE 404 Wyman St., Ste. 100 Waltham, MA 2451 800-565-2279 IntelliDose automates chemotherapy order-writing to safeguard against dosing errors. Safety checking algorithms watch for route-of-administration errors, omission...

Misys Healthcare Systems.(Patient Safety HotList)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... CPOE 8529 Six Forks Rd. Raleigh, NC 27615 919-329-1558 Misys CPR-CPOE manages the medication process from CPOE through the pharmacy and through the medication administration process, providing decision support at each step....

Omnicell Inc.(Patient Safety HotList)(SafetyMed RN )(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Bar Coding 1201 Charleston Rd. Mountain View, CA 94043 800-850-6664 SafetyMed RN utilizes point-of-care bar code scanning to document medication administration, to ensure the five rights and automate nursing workflow. The...

Eclipsys Corp.(Patient Safety HotList)(Sunrise Clinical Manager's CPOE)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... CPOE 1750 Clint Moore Rd. Boca Raton, FL 33487 561-322-4485 Sunrise Clinical Manager's CPOE module sends alerts to ordering clinicians to help them anticipate potential errors before an order is processed. Includes embedded...

M2 Information Systems.(Patient Safety HotList)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... CPOE 209 Dayton St., Ste. 201 Edmonds, WA 98020 425-771-7699 M2 Order Management supports physician order entry with real-time interaction checking for drug/drug, drug/food, drug/allergy. Supports order sets, favorite lists,...

QuadraMed Corp.(Patient Safety HotList)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... CPOE 12110 Sunset Hills Rd. Reston, VA 20190 703-709-2300 Affinity CPOE allows physicians to review information and enter orders. Physicians can tailor the application to suit their preferences and workflow, using built-in...

Cerner.(Patient Safety HotList)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... CPOE 2800 Rockcreek Pkwy. Kansas City, MO 64117 816-201-7738 Cerner CPOE works with Cerner Millennium's data repository, viewer, clinical documentation tools and decision support. Physicians view results and existing orders,...

IMPAC Medical Systems.(Patient Safety HotList)(Oncology CPOE )(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... CPOE 100 W. Evelyn Ave. Mountain View, CA 94041 650-623-8883 IMPAC's Oncology CPOE (Multi-Access) supports the complexities of medical and radiation oncology. With multi-tiered security, the single database design includes...

MEDHOST Inc.(Patient Safety HotList)
August 1, 2005... CPOE 15455 N. Dallas Pkwy., Ste. 400 Addison, TX 75001 972-560-3100 MEDHOST's EDMS Order Entry provides a CPOE bi-directional solution for the ED. Includes support of all ED orders, one-touch order selection, customizable...

Reliance Software Systems Inc.(Patient Safety HotList)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... CPOE 30500 Northwestern HWY., Ste. 415 Farmington Hills, MI 48334 877-735-9273 CDR-Rx (and related order management component CDR-ROM) uses XML template-generating architecture to provide a template-based workflow for...

SCC Soft Computer.(Patient Safety HotList)(SoftWeb Outreach Suite )(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... 34350 US Hwy. 19N Palm Harbor, FL 34654 727-789-0100 CPOE The SoftWeb Outreach Suite for physicians' offices is a Web-based application that allows integrated real-time results reporting and CPOE remotely or in-house via the...

First DataBank.(Patient Safety HotList)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... 1111 Bayhill Dr. San Bruno, CA 94066 800-633-3453 Decision Support National Drug Data File (NDDF) Plus can be integrated into clinical information systems such as CPOE, pharmacy dispensing and electronic medication...

PatientKeeper Inc.(Patient Safety HotList)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Brighton Landing East, 20 Guest St., 5th Fl. Boston, MA 2135 617-987-0300 Decision Support PatientKeeper Enterprise provides healthcare professionals with mobile computing solutions. The portfolio of applications allows...

Sentillion.(Patient Safety HotList)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... 300 Brickstone Square Andover, MA 1810 978-749-0022 Decision Support The Vergence product suite includes user provisioning, strong authentication, single sign-on, clinical context management and privacy management. Supports...

CliniComp Intl.(Patient Safety HotList)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... 9655 Towne Centre Dr. San Diego, CA 92121 800-350-8202 Decision Support Essentris OnWatch is an enterprisewide set of tools that identifies patients whose conditions are in danger of deteriorating or in clinical decline....

MediNotes Corp.(Patient Safety HotList)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... 1025 Ashworth Rd., Ste. 222 West Des Moines, IA 50265 515-327-8850 Decision Support Charting Plus utilizes encounter templates designed for the practice to improve data capture and decision support. The program's electronic...

Physician Micro Systems Inc.(Patient Safety HotList)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... 2033 6th Ave., Ste. 850 Seattle, WA 98121-2526 800-770-7674 Decision Support Practice Partner Patient Records includes context sensitive clinical decision support guidelines, care plans, alerts, reminders and health...

TheraDoc Inc.(Patient Safety HotList)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... 257 E. 200 South, #600 Salt Lake City, UT 84111 801-415-4404 Decision Support TheraDoc Antibiotic Assistant augments clinical decision-making with disease-specific recommendations for antibiotic treatments, tests and...

Epocrates.(Patient Safety HotList)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... 1800 Gateway Dr., Ste. 300 San Mateo, CA 94404 650-227-1700 Decision Support Epocrates Essentials is an all-in-one mobile guide with more than 3,300 brand and generic drugs, more than 1,200 diseases, more than 300 tests, and...

Mediware Information Systems Inc.(Patient Safety HotList)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... 11711 W. 79th St. Lenexa, KS 66214 888-633-4927 Decision Support HCLL Transfusion Software offers safety checks, visual technology and user-defined rules to improve the efficiency and timeliness of clinical tasks. Built-in...

SAS.(Patient Safety HotList)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... SAS Campus Dr. Cary, NC 27513 919-531-4327 Decision Support SAS Performance Management for Healthcare allows executives to measure and evaluate performance relative to clinical care and other key areas. Administrators can...

Wolters Kluwer Health.(Patient Safety HotList)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... 77 Westport Plaza St. Louis, MO 63146 800-223-0554 Decision Support Medi-Span represents clinical decision support databases that can be embedded into a healthcare organization's existing CIS. These databases allow the system...

Allscripts.(Patient Safety HotList)(TouchScript )(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... 222 Merchandise Mart Plaza, Ste. 2024 Chicago, IL 60654 800-654-0889 E-prescribing TouchScript is available on wireless Pocket PCs, desktops, laptops or tablet computers. Physicians can prescribe, check for drug interactions...

Prime.(Patient Safety HotList)
August 1, 2005... 250 Parkway Dr., Ste. 164 Lincolnshire, IL 60069 847-279-8830 E-prescribing Patient Chart Manager offers wireless e-prescribing for physicians' offices of all sizes and specialties, with five levels of interaction checking...

Baxter Corp.(Patient Safety HotList)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... One Yorkdale Rd., Ste. 310 Toronto, Ontario M6C 3C2, Canada 800-537-2255 Medication Management Baxter's Patient Care System is a wireless, integrated medication management system that consists of pharmacy, point of care and...

McKesson.(Patient Safety HotList)(Horizon Admin-Rx )(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... 5995 Windward Pkwy. Alpharetta, GA 30005 404-338-3581 Medication Management Horizon Admin-Rx is a point-of-care medication administration solution to help caregivers ensure medication safety while improving efficiencies by...

E*HealthLine.com Inc.(Patient Safety HotList)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... 2450 Venture Oaks #100 Sacramento, CA 95833 916-924-8092 E-prescribing ISIS e-prescribing solutions provide physician point-of-care access to clinical decision support including interactions with existing drugs, duplicate...

WebMD ViPS.(Patient Safety HotList)
August 1, 2005... One W. Pennsylvania Ave. Towson, MD 21204 410-832-8330 Evidence-based Medicine PrismMD is a Web-based Provider Reporting Desktop to support patient and practice management. It incorporates clinical content from a measures...

Cardinal Health.(Patient Safety HotList)(Pyxis Veri5 )(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... 3750 Torrey View Ct. San Diego, CA 92130 858-480-7138 Medication Management Pyxis Veri5 is a medication verification and documentation system that combines a handheld computer (with bar code scanner) and condensed 24-hour...

MEDITECH.(Patient Safety HotList)(Bedside Medication Verification )(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... MEDITECH Cir. Westwood, MA 2090 781-821-3000 Medication Management MEDITECH's Bedside Medication Verification enables caregivers to scan bar codes confirming patient identification and comparing medications against...

Epic Systems Corp.(Patient Safety HotList)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... 5301 Tokay Blvd. Madison, WI 53711 608-271-9000 E-prescribing E-prescribing functions are integrated within EpicCare EMR. Patients review prescriptions and request renewals online. System identifies appropriate prescriptions...

Artromick International Inc.(Patient Safety HotList)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... 4800 Hilton Corporate Dr. Columbus, OH 43232 800-848-6462 Medication Management The Initi Mobile Computing MedServer supports medication management with keyless access with auto-relocking, facilitywide wireless cart security...

Healthcare Management Systems Inc.(Patient Safety HotList)(health care management system eMAR)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... 3102 West End Ave., Ste. 400 Nashville, TN 37203 800-383-3317 Medication Management HMS eMAR is a nursing tool to match the correct patient with the correct medication, dosage, time and route of administration. Verifies and...

Siemens Medical Solutions.(Patient Safety HotList)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... 51 Valley Stream Pkwy. Malvern, PA 19355 888-826-9702 Medication Management Med Administration Check automatically verifies and documents medication administration. Enables nurses to scan each medication against the patient's...

Bringing patient safety technology to the bedside: by instituting bar code technology from the pharmacy to the patient's bedside, a Louisiana health care system reduces its medication error rate.(Opelousas General Health System )
August 1, 2005... Getting the right medication to the right patient at the right time seems a pretty straightforward proposition. However, the medication administration process--from central pharmacy to patient bedside--is fraught with possibilities for patient...

ED on track with IT: Pennsylvania emergency department computerizes order entry, documentation and charge capture to increase efficiency, reduce length of stay and grow its business.(Emergency Department Information Systems: What Works)(Altoona Hospital )
August 1, 2005... Emergency department (ED) visits are up 26 percent in the last 10 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Altoona Hospital is no exception, seeing its ED visits climb to a record high over that time as the number of...

Putting a price on underpaid claims: an Atlanta-based medical group recovers $1.8 million in contractually underpaid claims 15 months after implementing a Web-based claims auditing software application.(Internet Apps/ASPs: What Works)
August 1, 2005... The onset of managed care has made it increasingly difficult for physicians, hospitals and patients to completely understand the reimbursement process, specifically the contract and payment policies that drive it. HIPAA rules and new state...

Medical archiving to the rescue: Canadian cancer treatment organization uses advanced medical archiving technology to achieve objectives that far exceed storage alone.(Data Storage: Case History)
August 1, 2005... The BC Cancer Agency (BCCA) provides a cancer care program for the people of British Columbia, including prevention, screening and early detection, diagnosis and treatment services, support programs, community programs, research and education....

Bye-bye, foot pedal--hello, efficiency: a New York community hospital adds speech recognition IT to its medical records line-up, increasing productivity and transforming itself into a service unit for other hospital departments.(Speech Recognition)(Brooks Memorial Hospital )
August 1, 2005... Who says small community hospitals don't use cutting edge IT, or that age is a negative factor in healthcare professionals willingness o adopt it? Who says increased efficiency through IT leads to lay-offs, or that speech recognition technology...

Enterprise BPM platform.(New Products & Services)(AWD Healthcare Process Management suite )(business process management)(DST Technologies, Inc)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... The AWD Healthcare Process Management suite of business process management healthcare templates is designed to help providers improve operations in revenue cycle, supply chain, human resources, payroll and legal, and quality assurance and...

Medical transcription service.(New Products & Services)(Evolutions)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Breakthrough offers transcription services to healthcare providers through a national and global network of transcription resources connected and managed with an advanced Internetenabled workflow monitoring system. It handles small customers or...

Waterproof carrier for PHRs.(New Products & Services)(USB flash drive )
August 1, 2005... Small enough to be worn around the neck on a chain or kept on a key chain, the Waterproof USB flash drive is a portable, rugged memory device for carrying personal health records. It comes in capacities of 64, 128, 256 and 512 MB. It also comes...

Identity Auditor.(New Products & Services)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... The Sun Java System Identity Auditor creates a secure identity audit trail and presents a unified view of an individual's identity and system access activities. The audit policy engine scans critical applications, flags violations and evaluates...

Medication workstation.(New Products & Services)
August 1, 2005... The Fusion mobile medication workstation is designed to meet bedside medication security, vital signs acquisition and documentation needs in one complete workstation. It regulates medication access with SecureLock, a Windows-based software that...

BPM solution enhancement.(New Products & Services)(LiquidOffice 4.0 is a business process management solution )(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... LiquidOffice 4.0 is a business process management solution with enterprise-class, full text search for immediate access to time-sensitive content across the business process lifecycle. It searches, evaluates and monitors in-process content and...

Customized care plan.(New Products & Services)(electronic health record and TouchScript e-Prescribing solutions)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Physicians may now have a better chance at getting their patients to adhere to therapy plans and prescriptions with Patients Interactive. When a physician prescribes medication, Patients Interactive generates an "information prescription" that...

Lab Disease-Reporting Interface.(New Products & Services)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... The Laboratory Disease-Reporting Interface aggregates reportable disease conditions from a hospital laboratory system and transmits the information in a single data set to a state department of health database. The data is then disseminated to...

User account administration.(New Products & Services)(Vergence Provisioning Manager version 1.5)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Vergence Provisioning Manager version 1.5 helps resolve account management problems in healthcare by providing a single, centralized Web-based solution for automating the management of user-base and all associated applications. It enables IT...

e-Transcription.(New Products & Services)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... ZyDoc is a full-medical transcription and documentation solution that includes both dial-in and digital dictation, online editing, e-signature capabilities and automated distribution to referring networks. TrackDoc, ZyDoc's integrated tracking...

Enhanced clinical app suite.(New Products & Services)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... The Sunrise 4.0 XA clinical suite includes numerous new features and enhancements in 16 key areas, extending the usability, depth and reach of clinical solutions. The clinical suite integrates care delivery and streamlines workflows across the...

Enhanced LIS features.(New Products & Services)(Orchard Software Corp, Orchard Harvest LIS v. 6.5)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Orchard Software Corp. has enhanced its Orchard Harvest LIS v. 6.5 with 273 features specifically geared to small- and medium-sized hospitals. The lab information system now includes Supply Management, which supports paperless management of new...

Consumer-directed healthcare.(New Products & Services)
August 1, 2005... HealthDesk is a new launch from MedSeek, a provider of online education and communication services for employees and consumers. It offers tools for managing online interactions with physicians and nurses, and for managing health benefits....

Telemedicine innovations.(New Products & Services)
August 1, 2005... Polycom Inc. has introduced two new telemedicine solutions, the Polycom MedLink Cart and the Polycom Practitioner Cart. Both are designed to integrate with standards-based video medical peripherals and to deliver video, audio and data sharing...

Browser-based revenue cycle app.(New Products & Services)
August 1, 2005... With the addition of EZ-Access Patcom to the EZ-Access family of browser-based applications, Keane, Inc. added revenue cycle management capability to its flagship product Patcom Plus, browser-based, point-of-service patient information...

Predictive modeling software.(New Products & Services)
August 1, 2005... MEDai has released the latest version of Risk Navigator Clinical, their award-winning predictive modeling software. Used by disease, case and network managers and underwriters to predict trends in healthcare costs, the software combines...

Clinical pathways for care managers.(New Products & Services)(MEDecision's Integrated Medical Management )(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... OptiCarePath is a series of clinical pathways embedded in MEDecision's Integrated Medical Management (IMM) solution. Based on clinical best practices and knowledge for case and disease management, OptiCarePath delivers automated questionnaires...

CME courses available for PDAs.(continuing medical education )(personal digital assistants)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... MobileCME gives physicians the option to complete CME courses on PDAs, Smartphones and other hand-held devices. Epocrates, in association with John Hopkins University of Medicine, provides the software and course materials. Users synchronize...

Eclipsys Corp.(NewsMakers)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Roswell Park Cancer Institute in upstate New York is deploying Eclipsys' Sunrise Clinical Manager XA with Disease Manager-Oncology, Sunrise Record Manager, and Sunrise Surgical Manager to automate its oncology research, education and patient...

Daou Systems Inc.(NewsMakers)(Florida Hospital Healthcare Services)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Florida Hospital Healthcare Services (FHHS) in Orlando chose Daou Systems Inc., a provider of IT consulting and management services to healthcare organizations, to design and implement a member portal solution for the organization. The portal...

Siemens Medical Solutions.(NewsMakers)(Fairview-University Medical Center )(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Fairview-University Medical Center in Minneapolis, Minn., the largest of seven hospitals owned by Fairview Health Services, signed a five-year exclusive contract with Malvern, Pa.-based Siemens Medical Solutions. Physicians at the Center will...

Emergisoft Corp.(NewsMakers)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island in Pawtucket, R.I., has gone live with Arlington, Texas-based Emergisoft Corp.'s EmergisoftED. This emergency department information system allows Memorial Hospital's clinicians and administrators to automate...

3M Health Information Systems.(NewsMakers)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... The Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission selected Murray, Utah-based 3M Health Information Systems' APR-DRG classification system as Maryland's methodology for determining payment of hospital acute care services.

MC Strategies Inc.(NewsMakers)(USA Prepare)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Baylor Regional Medical Center has contracted with USA Prepare, a program of MC Strategies Inc. in Atlanta, Ga. to provide Web-based lessons on pre-hospital protocols and a learning management system to manage training records for hundreds of...

Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands.(NewsMakers)(Marietta Memorial Hospital )(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Marietta Memorial Hospital and Philips have entered into a multiyear strategic agreement that will bring advanced equipment and technology, clinical support and enhanced staff education to the southeastern region of Ohio. Marietta and Philips...

Zix Corp.(NewsMakers)(Ecom PPO, Inc.)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Dallas-based Ecom PPO.com Inc., a PPO management company specializing in PPO administration, EDI relationships and claims processing, has signed a three-year contract with Zix Corp. for systemwide e-mail protection for up to 499 users.

Allscripts Healthcare Solutions.(NewsMakers)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Allscripts Healthcare Solutions won the Better Business Bureau's 2004 Torch Award for Marketplace Ethics. The annual award recognizes companies for demonstrating high ethical standards of behavior toward customers, suppliers, shareholders,...

Medco Health Solutions Inc.(NewsMakers)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... JCAHO (the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations) awarded Medco Health Solutions Inc., headquartered in Franklin Lakes, N.J., the Ernest A. Codman Award for re-engineering pharmacy processes to reduce medication...

Health Management Corp.(NewsMakers)(Keystone Mercy Health Plan)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Keystone Mercy Health Plan has chosen Richmond, Va.-based Health Management Corp.'s Healthy ReturnSM disease management and Baby Benefits maternity management programs. Headquartered in Philadelphia, Keystone Mercy Health Plan serves nearly...

McKesson Corp.(NewsMakers)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Premier Purchasing Partners L. P. has signed a new, multiproduct agreement with San Francisco, Calif.-based McKesson Corp. The 3-year agreement makes it easier for Premier's 1,500 member hospitals to buy and implement McKesson solutions for...