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Healthcare professionals are constantly on the move, and they want information to follow them wherever they go. No small feat for vendors who must clear the path of obstacles like parochial domains, patient privacy rules, hardware limitations and network protocols.
Looking to distance itself from similar-sounding competitors, the iMedica Corporation has announced a new name and launched a new Web site.
Physicians rely on their cellphones about as much as they do their stethoscopes. With that in mind, Globaltel Media is looking to make the cellphone more useful.
Executives at CareFusion are combining medicine and music to publicize the company’s launch as a solo act.
While the economic downturn has forced SelectHealth to discontinue some of its projects, the health plan has reallocated its resources to new campaigns, thanks to data from its communications partner, the Eliza Corp.
When Community Health Plan of Washington implemented ZeOmega’s Jiva care management software in October 2008, the health plan saw the immediate elimination of duplicate assessments being done on the same patients by its use, disease and case management departments, said Sandra Hewett, the plan’s delegated services administrator.
After a successful pilot in its Hudson, N.Y. region, MVP Healthcare is rolling out McKesson’s Advanced Diagnostics Management (ADM) to the rest of its provider network to automate the clinical review and authorization of imaging tests.
Since Geisinger Health Plan began predictive modeling for Health Navigator, its medical home program, nearly two years ago, the payer has seen a decrease in hospital admissions for its high-risk members in disease and case management.
Physicians fail to share abnormal test results with patients in one out of every 14 medical tests, undermining the claimed efficacy of electronic medical records, according to a recent study.
The House Committee on Small Businesses is reviewing legislation that would provide small medical practices with a $10 million boost for adopting healthcare IT.