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 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 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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