Availity, MedEZ team up

Availity is partnering with MedEZ, a provider of medical and behavioural health management software, for the integration of HIPAA-compliant healthcare claim transactions, according to PR News Wire.

Healthcare providers with MedEZ software can now submit claims seamlessly via the Availity Health Information Network.

The partnership provides MedEZ customers with access to one of the nation's largest clearinghouses and provider Web portals.

Informatics announced the deployment of the ICA solution at Lourdes Hospital in Paducah, Kentucky, to assist their physicians in providing community-wide care, reports Trading Markets.

The hospital contracted with ICA to aggregate data from a multitude of in-place healthcare information systems and provide a tool allowing physicians to monitor, assess and treat patients across the various treatment settings in and around the Paducah area.

The solution collects data from the hospital's core information system, as well as laboratory, radiology, quality-assurance, ambulatory electronic medical records and other supporting clinical systems, yielding a longitudinal patient record.

German hospital group Krankenhaus Buchholz and Winsen is rolling out a number of iSoft solutions at two of its hospitals at Buchholz and Winsen, says On Windows.

iSoft, part of health IT company IBA Health Group, will install a range of its management and clinical applications, including its new Collaboration Suite portal, eFA services and electronic patient record.

With iSoft Collaboration Suite, Krankenhaus Buchholz and Winsen will provide general practitioners with access to hospital patient records using a standard Web browser.