Mike Miliard
GE Healthcare has successfully linked its electronic medical records (EMR) solution with several non-GE inpatient systems, providing a single view of the patient record that will go beyond the requirements of meaningful use. The interoperability solution is set to debut at beta sites Capital Region Healthcare (N.H.) and Decatur Memorial Hospital (Ill.) in early 2011 with general availability expected later that year.
eCardio Diagnostics, a developer of arrhythmia monitoring solutions, has joined forces with AT&T to provide mobile technology-based care for heart patients. Under the partnership, AT&T is providing eCardio with machine-to-machine (M2M) wireless data and mobile connectivity for near real-time, remote monitoring.
Health Resources and Services Administration, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has bestowed $792,000 on the University of Louisville School of Nursing with an eye towards helping it develop a nursing informatics program for the school's undergraduate and graduate students, as well as for practicing nurses from University of Louisville Hospital.The program will help prepare UofL nurses for jobs in a health system where information technology is essential to providing care.
APP Design, a software development firm specializing in the design, development and integration of healthcare systems, announced that it has been selected to design and develop a real-time patient consent interface for WNYHealtheNet through its RHIOnet product. RHIOnet is a secure, Web-based, healthcare information exchange system designed to deliver accurate and timely healthcare data to caregivers distributed across wide geographical areas.
Prematics and Navinet have joined forces, with Navinet's real-time healthcare communications network enabling delivery of the Prematics care communication solutions to mobile devices - offering docs access to administrative, clinical and financial data from health plans at point-of-care.
Dell has announced that its Streak, a five-inch Android-based mobile, will be integrated into its healthcare solutions. Hospitals and physicians will be able to order the Streak this fall as an integrated component of Dell's EMR and MCC solutions.
IBM and the University of Missouri (MU) announced an initiative on Friday that, by empowering the school's bioinformatics projects with IBM's high performance computing technologies, aims to develop a first-of-a-kind cloud computing environment for genomics research collaboration at a regional level.
A new survey shows that while the medical management industry continues to focus resources on health IT, consumers are hampered in accessing their information online due to the cost of developing Web portals and other business- and security-related concerns.Conducted by URAC, a nationwide healthcare accreditation organization, "The URAC 2010 Population Health/Care Management Survey" is the third in a series of studies of medical management organizations meant to periodically assess industry trends and identify potential issues for the near future.
Anyone who's ever languished on hold or plunged into a labyrinth of ever-expanding touchtone message options while trying to get an answer to a simple question about coverage or eligibility will appreciate the new invention from Aetna. Her name is Ann.
Continua Health Alliance officials say the company is creating an interoperable source code software library for mobile platforms.The international organization of healthcare and technology companies has chosen Vignet, a Virginia-based provider of "person-centric" connected health platform and solutions, to develop this mobile Continua Enabling Source Library (mCESL), which will be made available to Continua Health Alliance members.