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In late 2011, Siemens became the latest in a long procession of healthcare behemoths to scoop up a health information exchange vendor, with its acquisition of Yardley, Pa.-based MobileMD.
It pays to be green. St. Charles Health System in Oregon cut its co-location power costs by 30 percent by leasing data storage space from a Tier III green disaster recovery center in its hometown. As a result of reduced data transport and co-location costs, St. Charles estimates a $7.1 million return on investment over a five-year period.
Dossia, the open-source personal health record service developed by a group of Fortune 500 employers, recently announced that the Dossia Health Management System has been deployed at six of its founding member companies – leading to sharp uptick in patient engagement.
The abundance of broadly categorized mobile medical applications that have been developed and distributed in recent years has left some healthcare professionals questioning many apps’ quality and general usability.
While HHS and CMS have come forth with some answers to the myriad lingering questions about Health Insurance Exchanges, it doesn’t change the fact that Jan. 1, 2014 remains a tight start-up deadline for states to meet.
The chief of the cardiology department at 400-bed Boca Raton Regional Hospital in Florida has developed software for controlling heart devices remotely using an iPad, The hospital’s executives say the technology could revolutionize the way physicians reprogram pacemakers.
Brown & Toland Physicians took a giant step recently toward realizing the IPA's vision of providing clinical integration and connectivity for its 1,500 primary care and specialty physicians in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Physician professional organizations are offering online teaching aids for clinicians to get up to speed on patient-centered care because it was not taught in medical school.
Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, a seven-hospital, multi-campus health system in Memphis, Tenn., recently completed a CPOE implementation after two years of taking a “hard-and-fast” tack. Today, hospital officials boast 86 percent adoption across the system on the inpatient side and more than 96 percent across its emergency departments.
When the prestigious Institute of Medicine called for sweeping changes across healthcare to ensure health information technology is being used safely, the reaction from healthcare providers and policymakers was swift – and mostly positive.