Bernie Monegain
The Department of Defense Military Health System has signed an $8.1 million, 12-month add-on contract with EDS to make technical enhancements to several health information management systems.
The market for medical automation technology is forecast to grow from $13.1 billion this year to $23.2 billion in 2014, according to BCC Research.
Premier Purchasing Partners, the group purchasing unit of the Premier healthcare alliance has selected AeroScout's healthcare technology as the exclusive Wi-Fi-based RFID solutions for Premier's member hospitals.
GE has announced an initiative for developing wireless medical monitoring systems, or body-sensor networks (BSN). The new systems would replace the tangle of bedside cables used to capture a patient's vital signs.
Three Indiana and Ohio organizations are now sending clinical test results, reports and other medical information through their health information exchanges, a first in the country.
The Center for Technology and Aging has released guidelines for a $500,000 grants program aimed at using technology to help reduce patients' failure to adhere to prescribed medication regimens.
Bridge Community Health Clinic in Wausau, Wis., plans to automate both the clinical and business sides of its clinic with practice management technology rolled out in July and an electronic medical records system slated to go live by the end of the year.
The American Health Information Management Association Foundation has landed a one-year, $1.2 million grant from the Office of the National Coordinator to continue the State-level Health Information Exchange (SL-HIE) Consensus Project.
Healthcare IT company Healthland, which focuses on the small community and critical access hospitals market, has completed its acquisition of American Healthnet, based in Omaha, Neb.
America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) has selected Deloitte to be a provider of subject matter experience, knowledge and training content related to ICD-10 and HIPAA 5010 compliance learning programs for the upcoming year. These regulations involve the coding system that doctors and hospitals use to code diagnoses and procedure information on medical claims and other fundamental health transactions.