Inside the BriefcaseCleveland Clinic has developed a program where staff from the compliance department anonymously watch workers in different departments and record whether they do in fact follow hand hygiene guidelines. Their findings are uploaded into Cleveland Clinic’s enterprise analytics system and are accessible via a tab in an analytics dashboard.
BM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has developed a unique biomedical analytics platform for personalized medicine that could enable doctors to better advise on the best course of medical treatment. This could lead to smarter and more personalized healthcare in a wide-range of areas, including cancer management, hypertension, and AIDS care.
Two-thirds of doctors say they use some form of electronic records to manage clinical information, and a similar number believe IT can improve care in the long term, according to a study from the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions.
InterSystems Corporation today announced that Hunterdon Healthcare is rolling out a comprehensive business intelligence application that is setting new standards for real-time decision support.
Real Time Innovations’ new Connext middleware applications allow hospitals to connect health-monitoring data with electronic health records.
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The effort to drag the health-care industry into the technology age trudges onward, and it’s still not clear whether the nation’s 500,000 to 600,000 physicians will successfully make the journey.
As hospital IT departments strive to manage an explosion of digital medical data – including electronic medical records, diagnostic images and a host of related applications – they are being challenged by clinicians to adopt mobile solutions that allow access to data at the point of care while protecting it from unauthorized use.
HP’s webOS platform may find new life as an open source operating system for healthcare applications. Researchers at Stanford University have developed applications for the HP TouchPad tablet, a discontinued webOS device, to operate an interventional MRI scanner and view patient respiration data and images gathered from the device.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) recently announced that it is building a virtualized infrastructure for one of the leading healthcare providers in Hong Kong, Quality HealthCare Medical Services (QHMS).
Intermountain Healthcare is equally renowned for cutting-edge information technology and health care quality improvement
Launched at HIT X.0: Beyond the Edge takes health IT leaders to the forefront of innovative ideas, scientific advances and emerging technologies so they can help lead the future of patient care.
Remedy Health Media, America’s fastest-growing health information and technology company, today announced its acquisition of HealthCentral, a leading provider of online clinical and patient community resources and tools that help millions of patients and caregivers take control of their health and improve their well-being. The acquisition brings together two companies with the shared mission of empowering patients and caregivers with the information and applications needed to efficiently navigate the healthcare landscape to receive better health outcomes.
he healthcare industry is at a data-management crossroads, driven by the exponential growth of patient data, tighter federal and industry regulations, shrinking IT budgets, and the transition to electronic health records.
At the BusinessGreen Leaders Forum in association with BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, recently, panelists discussed the importance of sustainability within an organisation and how IT can be a significant part of the solution.
SoloHealth, a leading consumer-driven healthcare technology company, was awarded with Intel’s coveted IT healthcare award, the “Intel Innovation Award,” during the 2011 Health IT Leadership Summit that took place Tuesday in Atlanta.
Healthcare, one of India’s largest sectors, in terms of revenue and employment, is expanding rapidly. A key growth driver in the healthcare sector is India’s booming population.
Allscripts Healthcare Solutions (MDRX) beat analysts’ Q3 expectations on both the top and bottom lines late Thursday, and raised its full-year guidance. Allscripts reported earnings of 25 cents a share, excluding costs related to its $1.3 billion buyout of Eclipsys last year. That’s up 32% over the year-ago quarter and 3 cents over analysts’ consensus. Revenue rose 13% to $371.4 million, vs. analysts’ average of $364.9 million.
Nortec Software Announces Partnership with North Shore Medical Labs, in collaboration with HHS and AHIMA to Provide EHR Systems and Healthcare IT Training
When it comes to mobile health, Eric Dishman, director of health innovation and policy at Intel, for Intel’s Healthcare Innovation Group, is a realist. “On one hand, Intel is really excited about the future of m-health and mobile health. On the other hand, we’re a little worried that there’s a lot of hype around it right now,” Dishman told MobiHealthNews in an interview at the just-concluded Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) annual conference in Las Vegas, where he delivered a keynote address.
Orion Health, Inc., the global leader in health information exchange (HIE) and healthcare integration solutions, and the Louisiana Health Care Quality Forum (LHCQF) today announce the launch of LaHIE, Louisiana’s statewide health information exchange (HIE)
Trevor Kobe discusses the strategies and tactics for improving access and use of business intelligence whether in hospital, private or academic settings.
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and American Well™ today announced an initiative to bring telehealth services to U.S. Veterans in their homes, workplaces and other convenient locations, following an award from the VA Innovation Initiative (VAi2) Industry Innovation Competition.
athenahealth, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATHN), a leading provider of cloud-based practice management, electronic health record (EHR), and care coordination services to medical groups, today announced a collaboration agreement with Medley Health, a leading provider of membership practice marketing and communications services for independent primary care physicians and their patients. The two companies will work together on product integration, co-marketing programs, and sales outreach initiatives to further strengthen doctor-patient collaboration and communication.
Allscripts recently announced a new mobile EHR solution that it has temporarily called “Wombat”. The vendor designed the product exclusively for the iPad, directly involving Apple in the development process.
Venture capital investments in companies that provide health IT and services hit $207 million in the third quarter of 2011, a 14% increase when compared with the $182 million raised during the same period last year, new figures from Dow Jones VentureSource reveal.
To provide healthcare customers with comprehensive healthcare integration capabilities within a unified enterprise application infrastructure platform, Oracle today announced Oracle SOA Suite for healthcare integration.
During the change to an electronic medical record system, the focus for many practices is on how data will be collected, stored and analyzed going forward. But in most cases, there are many years’ worth of historical data in paper files that physicians will need post-EMR.
For Nigerians who can afford it, seeking medical attention abroad is routine. No thanks to them, health professionals within the medical industry in the United Kingdom, United States of America, Germany, and increasingly, South Africa and India, are smiling to the banks.
The Defense and Veterans Affairs Departments are much more alike in the healthcare services they deliver than they are different. That is critical as they build the components of their integrated electronic health record (iEHR), which will be based on common services applications instead of a large proprietary technology system, said Mark Goodge, chief technology officer of the Military Health System.
