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More coverage costs shift to workers: report

By Rebecca Vesely | September 02, 2010 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Employers this year increasingly shifted the cost of health coverage to their workers, even as total premiums rose only slightly, according to a new report by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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Small-business tax credit seen as boost for employee coverage

By Rebecca Vesely | September 02, 2010 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
About 3.4 million workers are employed by roughly 1 million small businesses that are likely to take advantage of a new healthcare premium tax credit by 2013, according to a report by the Commonwealth Fund.
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AMIA creates global informatics group

By Shawn Rhea / HITS staff writer | September 02, 2010 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The American Medical Informatics Association, a trade group representing healthcare-informatics professionals, has created an organization to serve as an international training ground, resource center and facilitator of informatics use in low-resource regions.
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Calif. lawmakers OK insurer transparency bill

By Rebecca Vesely | September 02, 2010 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
California lawmakers have passed a bill that provides more transparency on healthcare premium rate changes, while rejecting another bill that would have given state regulators the authority to halt rate increases outright.
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CSC recruits former VA deputy CIO

By Maureen McKinney / HITS staff writer | September 02, 2010 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Technology services company CSC has named Edward Meagher senior executive adviser and vice president of its North American public-sector civil and health services group. In his new role with the Falls Church, Va.-based company, Meagher will be charged with overseeing efforts to work with government health services entities such as the Veterans Affairs Department.
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CER can be part of health IT push: Policy group

By Maureen McKinney / HITS staff writer | September 02, 2010 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Policymakers charged with disseminating comparative-effectiveness research will need to proceed carefully and strategically to overcome obstacles such as a lack of standardized methodology and public perceptions of CER.Those were among the findings of a recently released issue brief from the New England Healthcare Institute, a not-for-profit health policy research organization based in Cambridge, Mass. The brief's authors recommended several strategies for effective CER dissemination, including the integration of CER into the current push for expanded use of health information technology.
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Long Island e-health network expands

By Long Island Business News | September 02, 2010 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Eastern Long Island Hospital became the latest medical facility to connect to an online data sharing network of regional hospitals, nursing facilities and physician's offices. Known as the e-Health Network of Long Island, the online database provides electronic health records to different physicians that a patient may see in an effort to improve the quality of healthcare.Read more (registration may be required).
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Clearinghouse firm Availity acquires RealMed

By Joseph Conn / HITS staff writer | September 02, 2010 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Availity, a Jacksonville, Fla.,-based claims clearinghouse for physician office practices and other providers as well as Web-based portals and other services to health plans, has acquired RealMed, Indianapolis, also a provider of claims-clearinghouse and revenue-cycle management services, the companies have announced (PDF).
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Cincinnati, Detroit named Beacon Communities

By Jennifer Lubell / HITS staff writer | September 02, 2010 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Cincinnati and Detroit are the final two pilot communities selected under the new Beacon Community Cooperative Agreement Program, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced Thursday.
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Mass. attorney general ends review of Levy case

September 02, 2010
Boston GlobeThe Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office said that a personal relationship between Paul Levy, CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and a female employee “clearly endangered the reputation of the institution and its management,” and it found that “his continued, repeated and acknowledged failure to appreciate and address the situation merited, if not compelled, disciplinary action” by the hospital’s board.
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