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Evergreen, Virginia Mason OK partnership The boards of Evergreen Healthcare, Kirkland, Wash., and Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, approved a partnership.

Lack of adequate data noted in MIC reviews Medicaid integrity review contractors lacked adequate data to identify potential overpayment and fraud, according to an analysis of the program's early performance.

States get $229 million for insurance exchanges The total number of states receiving grants to establish state health insurance exchanges rose to 34 with the issuance of $229 million in federal funds to 10 states Wednesday.

NexJ Wins CRM Watchlist 2012 Award

NexJ, one of the founding members of Open Health Tools (OHT) and an active proponent of open collaboration in the healthcare industry, has just received the prestigious CRM Watchlist 2012 Award. The award is given to CRM companies that have "Awesome possibilities." Paul Greenberg, widely recognized as one of the world's leading experts in CRM, wrote a detailed article in ZDNet describing the reasons behind the nomination. He has kindly given Open Health News permission to reprint the article in its entirety (see below).

eCollaboration Forum Takes Center Stage at HIMSS Conference in Vegas

Collaboration and open source solutions are taking center stage at this year's HIMSS conference in Las Vegas. An all day eCollaboration Forum that will take place on Thursday, February 23, has captured the attention of the attendees and promises to be one of the best attended events of the conference. The Forum will explore the creation of collaborative platforms as the foundation for a change from the current fragmented healthcare system to one based on Accountable Care Organizations (ACO's). This is a very successful concept borrowed from open source where communities work around an open source platform.

VistA Community Makes Major Strides Towards Code Unification

The VistA community took major steps towards a unified VistA core during the 24th VistA Community Meeting in Sacramento, California this past weekend. The first speaker at the conference, Dr. Seong Ki Mun made a call for the VistA community to unify around one core version of VistA. The leading commercial VistA solution providers, Medsphere and DSS, Inc., quickly stepped up to the plate supporting the idea. The Indian Health Service (IHS) also supported this core version of VistA and announced that they were negotiating an agreement with OSEHRA so that IHS can participate as a full member of the community.