Kansas news and information

Last week, William Newton Hospital, Winfield, Kan., experienced an information technology system outage, when the hospital's main server at the hub of all digital operations ceased to function, said a hospital administrator. Staff immediately reverted to practices used before the introduction of...
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With new online health insurance exchanges set to launch Tuesday, consumers in many Southern and Plains states will have to look harder for information on how the marketplaces work than their counterparts elsewhere.
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The "navigators" who will help Kansans enroll in health plans as the new insurance marketplaces prepare to go live are training for the role, but still don't know details of the plans, rates or subsidies.
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Zane Burke, an executive of Cerner Corp. since 1996, has been promoted to president of the North Kansas City, Mo.-based developer of electronic health-record systems.
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Kansas' health information exchange has been years and millions of dollars in the making but because of an ongoing dispute between its two networks, it still lacks the capability to handle the exchange of digital patient records across the entire state.
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A dozen providers in a low-income part of the country will receive $5.4 million in federal funding to address a number of chronic conditions that affect residents there at a more frequent rate compared with the rest of the country.
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The Kansas Health Information Network, which is in the process of connecting the electronic health record systems of thousands of providers across the state, hopes to launch a new statewide patient portal next month. The portal will be free for all Kansas patients.
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Two Kansas doctors who have filed a lawsuit against a sweeping new state abortion law are attacking its form as well as its substance, hoping their objection to how lawmakers enacted the statute dooms it quickly.
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Health information technology systems developer Cerner Corp. went mall shopping for another corporate office complex, but is waiting on tax breaks from local government before it goes through with the deal.
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Humana has filed four federal lawsuits against Farmers Insurance Group of Cos. and related entities, arguing that the Medicare Secondary Payer Act entitles it to reimbursement from Farmers for benefits that Humana paid for Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D plans.
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