Annie Driscoll Appointed Senior Vice President for Information Technology.TIBURON Tiburon (Spanish Tiburón, "shark") may refer to: Places
Driscoll, formerly Vice President, Systems Integration, Technology and Architecture for CIGNA CIGNA CG (Connecticut General Life Insurance Company) INA (Insurance Company of North America) Healthcare Corp., will be responsible for providing NWB's growing client list of managed care organizations and technology vendors with consulting resources and software solutions. NWB provides MCOs the expertise to evaluate, select and implement information systems, and works with vendors to ensure that product development strategies meet market needs and facilitate enhanced reporting of outcomes and quality data. "As managed health care continues to reshape itself to meet employer and consumer demands, we recognized a need for someone who could help clients assess their existing systems and make smooth transitions into new technologies," said NWB President MaryAnn Galloway Galloway, district, Dumfries and Galloway, SW Scotland. The Rhinns, or Rinns, of Galloway is a rocky double peninsula that juts into the North Channel of the Irish Sea; its southern extremity is called the Mull of Galloway and is the southernmost point in Scotland. . "There's no time for our clients to be behind the technological curve. We're we're Contraction of we are. we're we are talking about hundreds of companies depending on these systems to provide critical information. The current explosion in Medicare Medicare, national health insurance program in the United States for persons aged 65 and over and the disabled. It was established in 1965 with passage of the Social Security Amendments and is now run by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Risk, for example, has caused many of our clients to reach out for expertise in both a new product line and the systems needed to support it." When CIGNA acquired Healthsource in 1997, Driscoll, then with Healthsource, headed up the IS integration work necessary to bring the company's award-winning IS solutions into the CIGNA portfolio. "Systems integration is one of the biggest challenges facing the industry," said Driscoll. "It's more than a matter of ensuring data and technological compatibility within an organization as it merges with another, it's working efficiently and effectively with outside systems, like those encountered in a delegated arrangement or, as with Medicare, with government systems like HCFA HCFA abbr. Health Care Financing Administration HCFA, n.pr See Health Care Financing Administration. ." Data compatibility, Driscoll states, is going to become an increasingly sensitive issue for both members and management as medical records become computerized computerized adapted for analysis, storage and retrieval on a computer. computerized axial tomography see computed tomography. . "Electronic information has to be sent and received quickly and securely to ensure that a provider's members are properly cared for," she said. "If you've got multiple computer systems using different data definitions, the quality of member service and information management suffer." NWB Managed Care Development provides development and support to managed care organizations in three critical areas: operations, management information systems and managed care training. By providing operational expertise and specialized spe·cial·ize v. spe·cial·ized, spe·cial·iz·ing, spe·cial·iz·es v.intr. 1. To pursue a special activity, occupation, or field of study. 2. managed care consulting, NWB's experienced professionals offer solutions to the complex challenges that face managed care organizations. http://www.nwborg.com
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