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By Bernie Monegain | 02:40 pm | August 05, 2011
Montefiore Medical Center in New York’s Bronx borough has been providing quality care for decades, thanks to a clinical analytics system that could serve as a model for other healthcare systems across the country.
By Eric Wicklund | 10:46 am | August 05, 2011
The government's meaningful use guidelines for healthcare reform have caught the attention of mobile health and telemedicine advocates, who say their programs are right in line with efforts to adopt IT to improve healthcare delivery.
By Molly Merrill | 11:03 am | August 04, 2011
The National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) recognized 12 organizations as leaders in the health information exchange space in a report that it released this week identifying what it took to be a successful HIE.
By Bernie Monegain | 11:52 am | August 03, 2011
Partners HealthCare Systems is providing clinicians throughout its integrated delivery network with mobile access to its electronic health record – a rollout the system achieved in 90 days.
By Mike Miliard | 12:33 pm | July 28, 2011
Mac McMillan, CEO of Austin, Texas-based IT security firm CynergisTek and chair of the HIMSS Privacy & Security Policy Task Force, has some strong opinions about privacy protections in healthcare nowadays. The short version? Things could be a lot better.
By Eric Wicklund | 11:29 am | July 27, 2011
A new report from the UnitedHealth Group indicates rural Americans will face an increasing need for healthcare and more challenges in accessing it, and recommends telehealth and telemedicine technology as a possible solution.
By Mike Miliard | 05:47 pm | July 21, 2011
athenahealth announced Thursday that it has signed an agreement to acquire Proxsys, a Birmingham, Ala.-based provider of cloud-based care coordination services between physicians and hospitals.
By Eric Wicklund | 09:21 am | July 20, 2011
Intel-GE Care Innovations, a collaboration formed last year to advance telehealth solutions for the home healthcare market, has launched Connect, a home-based medical device that serves as a communications platform and wellness portal for isolated seniors.
By Mike Miliard | 01:51 pm | July 19, 2011
LodgeNet Interactive Corporation, which provides video-on-demand, broadband Internet and satellite TV to the hospitality and healthcare industries, announced Tuesday that it has reorganized its LodgeNet Healthcare group as an independent but wholly-owned subsidiary.
By Eric Wicklund | 11:12 am | July 18, 2011
Two recent reports paint a rosy picture for the use of telemedicine in children's hospitals, both as a way of connecting specialists with patients and giving kids a link to their parents or other patients.