Highly Touted Medical Portal Shelved

The New York State Workers’ Compensation Board has shelved its medical portal initiative — which had been scheduled to launch before the end of this year — for an undisclosed period of time, an official said Thursday. The portal was supposed to be the keystone of a multiyear, $60 million Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) Program launched in 2012 to rebuild the workers’ compensation system with new infrastructure, including the latest technology and best practices. The board held the second of three webinars Thursday to discuss the BPR project and recent ...