SOURCE: Healthcare IT News The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded Ray Group International of Tampa, Fla., a $4.9 million contract to support the open source community that is contributing software code to the VA and Defense Department integrated electronic...
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Jun 25, 2012
SOURCE: USA Today Want to monitor your blood pressure and sugar level? Eat healthier meals? Screen yourself for depression? Find out if you need glasses? Now you can do it all with apps on your smartphone. In fact, there are 40,000 medical applications available for...
Jun 15, 2012
SOURCE: Fierce Health IT Many posts have been written about the need for social media policies for staff. All companies with a social media program should have policies or guidelines in place. There are many good examples of policies you can refer to if you're...
Jun 15, 2012
SOURCE:HealthCare IT News California physicians are finding themselves cornered in an EHR catch-22, a new report finds. The data shows that although a majority of the state’s physicians now use EHRs – technology pushed by the federal government – most of the...
Jun 12, 2012
SOURCE: Healthcare IT News The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has released two toolsets, one for small physician practices and one for independent pharmacies, meant to help support e-prescribing implementation. Officials say the toolsets are...
May 24, 2012
SOURCE: Pegasystems Amerigroup Deploys Pega for Better Claims Performance and Service Excellence CAMBRIDGE, MA--(Marketwire - May 22, 2012) - Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA), the leader in Business Process Management (BPM) and software for customer centricity, today...
May 21, 2012
SOURCE: Oracle Oracle Announces Latest Version of Oracle Health Sciences ClearTrial Software Award-Winning Clinical Trial Operations Software Now Features Enhanced Integration into Business Processes Across the Plan-to-Payment Lifecycle Redwood Shores, Calif. – May...
May 21, 2012
SOURCE: Bloomberg When patients show up at a hospital, something dangerous happens: They’re looked at by humans. Because of the hustle in busy emergency rooms and admission wards, many patients get only a cursory review of their health, according to Nicholas...
May 21, 2012
SOURCE:  IBM ARMONK, N.Y. - 17 May 2012: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it is helping improve healthcare delivery in Haiti through its collaboration with ‘Colleagues In Care’ Global Health Network. The organization is using IBM cloud-based social analytics and...
May 11, 2012
SOURCE:  IBM Moscow - 10 May 2012: IBM (NYSE:IBM) announced that several hospitals and clinics from Russia’s rapidly evolving regions outside of Moscow and St Petersburg are partnering with IBM to modernize infrastructure and improve patient care. A number of...
