Dr. Peter Tippett, chief medical officer and vice president at Verizon Enterprise Solutions, recently spoke with HIT Consultant Media about the company’s approach to health information technology compliance in an interview published Thursday. Tippett told interviewer Lois Drapin at the 2013 mHealth Summit that Verizon uses digital signing and two-factor identification platforms in order to comply […] More

Optum has won a $4 million project to help the Maryland state government update its health care exchange, MedCity News reported Sunday. Group spokesman Matt Stearns told the publication the two-month project involves performance and stability upgrades on the Marylandhealthconnection.gov website. Meredith Cohn writes the Columbia-based company is a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, the same […] More