SOURCE:Â eCommerce Times Healthcare technology has really made incredible advances over the last several years. However, while there is an app for almost everything, much still seems to be stuck in the Fred Flintstone era. Doctors still carry around thick folders with...
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Jan 27, 2011
SOURCE:Â Berkery Noyes Berkery Noyes, a leading middle market investment bank, has released its 2010 Pharma & Healthcare Information and Technology Industry M&A Trends Report. This report analyzes merger and acquisition activity in 2010 and compares it with...
Jan 25, 2011
SOURCE: Huffington Post Electronic health records -- touted by the White House as a key way to improve healthcare in the United States -- may actually do little to improve quality, U.S. researchers said on Monday. A team from Stanford University in California analyzed...
Jan 25, 2011
SOURCE:Â InformationWeek According to a study by Accenture, most health delivery organizations underestimate the time and costs associated with implementing advanced electronic medical record (EMR) functions, including clinical order entry, nursing and physician...
Jan 24, 2011
SOURCE:Â Health IT News Rural and Native Americans, ethnic minorities in poor, urban communities and Alaskan Natives often suffer negative health outcomes disproportionately due to a lack of access to various health IT tools, according to five research studies...
Jan 21, 2011
SOURCE:Â HealthIT News The IT Industry Business Confidence Index released Thursday by CompTIA, the information technology trade association, points to renewed optimism and a strengthening economy. Healthcare advancements are key to the uptick. The index, an average of...
Jan 18, 2011
SOURCE:Â Business Daily Mganga is a mobile phone application that was developed by Kenyan PhD student Shikoh Gitau and won her the Google Anita Borg award last year. The mobile health application that will record, catalogue and map out traditional medicine and...
Jan 18, 2011
SOURCE: MEDecision The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is conducting a massive overhaul of its healthcare management technology systems to improve integration and provide better information to providers, American Medical News reports. New...
Jan 17, 2011
SOURCE: The Monitor When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a recall on the prescription painkiller Darvocet due to heart-related side effects, the use of medical technology saved Dr. Juan Salazar’s nurses countless hours trying to identify his patients on...
Jan 12, 2011
SOURCE:Â IBM IBM announced today that multiple hospitals throughout Russia have switched from paper-based medical systems to a new solution from IBM and Complex Medical Information Systems (C-MIS) to provide fast electronic medical record exchange and unified access...
