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CSC wins $297M contract to replace state's Medicaid IT system
CSC won a five-year, $297 million contract to replace Maryland's Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) from the state's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (MD DHMH), the Falls Church,
Maryland HIT extension center third nationally to reach 1,000 pledged MU providers
The Chesapeake Regional Information System for our Patients (CRISP)--Maryland's regional health IT extension center--has become the third center (behind Massachusetts and South Carolina) to reached
Readmission reduction proposal may have national implications
Through a proposed program to lower hospital readmissions--which accounted for $1.2 billion of $9.0 billion spent across Maryland on hospital care in the last fiscal year--state officials may well
Docs seek medical liability protections, state by state
With national tort reform still on the back burner, physicians are mounting state-based efforts to achieve tort reforms, with a key focus on enacting, maintaining or lowering noneconomic damage caps,
In Maryland, base for a health insurance exchange may already exist
One state's health infrastructure is not the same as another's, as Massachusetts and Maryland are learning. While Massachusetts passed legislation for universal healthcare coverage, Maryland is
State high courts consider challenges to medical malpractice award caps
While the White House is working to soothe the fears of opponents who say that President Obama's reform proposals don't do enough to tame medical malpractice costs, a pair of cases going before high
ED monitoring network helps Maryland track epidemics
Just in time for flu season, Maryland likely has become the first state in the nation to have all of its hospital emergency departments agree to participate in an electronic early-warning system to
Maryland's hospital price-setting may influence national cost-control models
Maryland's experience with healthcare cost controls is fairly unique. There, an independent state agency has been setting rates since 1977 for all patients who visit the state's acute-care hospitals,
RFID comes of age
Healthcare organizations have been taking a good look at radio frequency identification for, I would guess, a good decade or more now. Until recently, most dismissed the RFID as being far too
Maryland approves $10M for health data exchange
After studying the idea for several years, the state of Maryland has approved $10 million in funding dedicated to building a statewide healthcare information exchange. The money will come from a
