By admin on March 1, 2010
Health IT professionals from around the country will be convening in Atlanta at the beginning of March for the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s (HIMSS) Annual Conference. HIMSS will provide a unique opportunity for ONC to speak to, learn from and interact with 27,000 leaders in the health IT field. This year’s theme — [...]
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By shadz on February 3, 2010
Microsoft Corp. has completed the acquisition of Sentillion Inc., a privately held company specializing in software for the healthcare industry. Microsoft will add Sentillion’s technologies to its portfolio of health solutions to make it easier for doctors and nurses worldwide to deliver better patient care by streamlining access to multiple health IT applications and data. [...]
Posted in USA | Tagged Amalga, Microsoft, Sentillion
By shadz on January 6, 2010
GE Healthcare, a unit of GE and Intel Corporation have announced that they have expanded their sales and marketing agreement for the Intel Health Guide to include the United Kingdom(UK). GE Healthcare already markets the Intel Health Guide in the United States.
The Intel Health Guide is a care management tool designed for health care professionals [...]
Posted in UK | Tagged health guide, Intel, QuietCare
By shadz on December 31, 2009
Beating the 31st Dec statutory deadline by one day Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued its draft definition for the “meaningful use” of electronic health records (EHRs) on 30th Dec as part of its notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM). The NPRM describes the proposed implementation of incentives to providers for the adoption [...]
Posted in USA | Tagged CMS, EHR, IFR, NPRM, ONC
By shadz on December 27, 2009
Recently, IBM announced that its lending arm, IBM Global Financing, has entered into new financing agreements with four leading electronic healthcare records (EHR) providers, highlighting the growing need for private financing for health IT and the pressing challenges hospitals and medical practices face to adopt health IT solutions.
Siemens Healthcare, Lavender & Wyatt Systems, Inc., Healthcare [...]
Posted in USA | Tagged IBM, IBM Global Financing, INVISION, Lavender & Wyatt Systems, MedSeries4, Siemens Healthcare, Soarian
By shadz on December 26, 2009
Recently IBM announced a C$22.5 million project with the Government of Manitoba to enhance healthcare throughout the province with the creation of an electronic healthcare records (EHR) system. This technology will offer a secure and quick access to pertinent patient information to healthcare providers, which can improve the efficiency and quality of patient care while [...]
Posted in Worldwide | Tagged dbMotion, EHR, IBM, Manitoba
By shadz on October 16, 2009
Caritas Christi Health Care, New England’s largest community-based hospital network, has recently entered into a far-reaching agreement to use Microsoft Corp. health solutions, including Microsoft Amalga Unified Intelligence System (UIS) and Microsoft HealthVault, as the underpinning of an extensive system-wide data and patient relationship strategy designed to improve the health and quality of care for [...]
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