Massachusetts shows it's a leader in Health IT

As Massachusetts gets ready to deploy federal and state funds to set up a health information exchange (HIE) to link electronic medical records across the state, companies are clamoring to be a part of the action.

“There is definitely a gold rush out there,” said Marshall Votta, director of government affairs at Cambridge-based NaviNet Inc. The company, which is best-known for providing billing and administrative services, is expanding to add clinical data exchange to its arsenal. The company has offered its Web portal free to each of the 50 states, and its business model relies on payment from insurers per transaction, not providers...

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...Massachusetts was awarded $11.5 million by the federal government to implement an HIE, but has not received the funds as of yet. The state must first file a completed plan for the HIE and officials at the state Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS) said that they expect to issue RFPs to potential vendors in 2011. The state also has $12 million in state funds that were part of an original appropriation of $25 million two years ago. Budget cuts reduced that figure to $15 million, and so far $3 million has been spent to set up the administrative entity charged with establishing the statewide HIE, called the Massachusetts e-Health Institute. The state has until now been part of a p...

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MTC's Trainerquest unit a top-5 training provider in New England

MTC's TrainerQuest unit is listed as one of the largest IT Training Providers in New England by Mass High Tech. We've gotten here because of our focus on effective training development, delivery and e-learning services. Contact us today!

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Two N.E. health-care IT firms land stimulus funding

Health-care information technology efforts have won a $220 million shot in the arm from the Department of Health and Human Services, and a pair of New England companies have carved out a combined $28.7 million of that stimulus money. Rhode Island Quality Institute in Providence, R.I., was awarded $15.9 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds, and Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems in Brewer, Maine, was given $12.75 million.

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