The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) last week denied protests to over $372 million for two contracts related to healthcare.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has launched a web portal providing health and healthcare indicator data to support IT innovations. The Health Indicators Warehouse includes a vast collection of health and healthcare indicators along with technologies to support automated data services through application programming interfaces.

St. Anthony's Medical Center, based in the St. Louis, has gone live with REACH3's healthcare customer relationship management (CRM) technology, CRM Custom, to assist patient outreach efforts.

Radiology Associates of South Florida has sourced its billing claims, support and reporting to McKessons Revenue Management Solutions, which will also offer financial analysis and performance assessment to the Miami-based radiology group.

Health IT companies Welch Allyn and Masimo have agreed on an integration strategy that will make the Masimo rainbow SET Pulse CO-Oximetry technology platform an offering in Welch Allyn's new product line.

Community Health Network of Central Florida, an integrated delivery network in partnership with Parrish Medical Center, has implemented MDIs Viewpoint Analytics healthcare technology in the hopes of moving toward creating an accountable care organization (ACO).

The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) has released new standards for its patient-centered medical home (PCMH) program. The new standards call on medical practices to be more patient-centered and reinforce federal meaningful use incentives for primary care practices to adopt health IT.

Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, a 673-bed regional care hospital based in Newark, N.J., has licensed Meta Health Technology's eCDI software application to assist and automate the clinical documentation process.