Medicare, Medicaid CM criticised

Poor contract management at the Centres for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is increasing the government's risk of making improper contract payments, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found, reports FederalTimes.

Nearly 85% of Medicare and Medicaid Services contracts contained actions where the agency failed to follow government acquisition regulations, the GAO revealed.

CMS employs contractors to process beneficiary claims. Contractors also staff CMS help lines, provide management and consulting services, assist with financial management and support information technology systems.

Management and technology services organisation Interphase Systems has introduced Ready-I BioPharma, a fully managed IT platform built specifically for biopharma and other life sciences companies, according to Earth Times.

Ready-IT includes a complete IT systems infrastructure and application suite, combined with embedded regulatory compliance and disaster recovery.

Early and mid-stage biopharma, biotech, pharmaceutical, medical device and other life sciences companies that sign up for Ready-IT BioPharma will have access to a fully managed platform-as-a-service offering. Components of the platform include document management, contract management, online training services and information security services.

Amtel has received the 2009 Internet Telephony TEM excellence award presented by Internet Telephony magazine, according to TMCnet.

The software platform and professional services help organisations in telecom financial management, auditing, infrastructure analysis, chargeback accounting, consolidation, contract management and technology assessment.

It consists of a platform for wireless procurement, invoice management and inventory management of telecoms services for global organisations. “Our algorithms for mobile optimisation provide value for reducing costs at an enterprise,” says Pankaj Gupta, founder and president of Amtel.