Passport Health Communications accreditation

Passport Health Communications announced today it has achieved full accreditation with the Health Information Exchange Accreditation Program (HIEAP) from the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC). EHNAC’s HIEAP accreditation recognizes excellence in health data processing and transactions, and ensures compliance with industry-established standards and HIPAA regulations. Passport will post its release on its site.

Passport eCares

Services and solutions within Passport Health Communications' new eCare suite include insurance eligibility verification, address verification, registration quality assurance (RQA), physician order screening (OrderChecker™), patient payment estimation (PPE), eCashiering for patient payment collections and more. Release is here.

VC Doerr taps Ferguson CEO of EMR Play

In its exclusive report, Venture Nashville breaks news about Nashvillian Gary Ferguson's appointment as CEO of a electronic medical record (EMR) and revenue-cycle management (RCM) venture that will have a Nashville office, a St. Louis headquarters and the personal backing of famed VC John Doerr, whose dayjob is leading Kleiner Perkins. There's also background on KPCB in Tennessee and further info about NotifyMD, which Ferguson previously led as CEO.

Medaxion's McLaren Moving to Market

One of Jeff McLaren's competitive advantages has to be his prior experience dealing with anesthesiologists, as well as his decade helping guide the company he co-founded: HealthStream. Now, Medaxion is focused on raising capital and introducing to market an iPhone application for supporting anesthesia practice teams. Read the story here.

nTelagent adopts Cloud

nTelagent, the Franklin-based revenue-cycle management technology provider, announced today that by using the Cloud, they're upgrading their point-of-service registration and patient settlement offering. The release is here.

Health: RemitDATA

Memphis-based RemitDATA says it now connects more than 20,000 providers with its reimbursement and documentation solutions. Release here.

HMS-Passport Alliance

Healthcare Management Systems (HMS) and Passport Health Communications today announced they're tightening their existing alliance, with HMS now offering Passport’s patient access management services as an integrated solution within various HMS' systems and platforms. Earlier HMS story here. Earlier Passport coverage here.

Baptist-Memphis adopts Allscripts

Memphis-based Baptist Memorial Health Care has adopted Chicago-based Allscripts Misys Healthcare Solutions technology for EHR and practice-management. Release here. Also, with an HT to NashvillePost, BlueCross BlueShield of TN's VSHP had adopted CH Mack's care-management technology, release here.

Healthcare Management Systems' online billpay rollout

Healthcare Management Systems (HMS) announced the launch of online bill pay, which allows hospitals to send patients electronic bills and statements and receive online payments from patients.