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GE Healthcare Converges on Wireless
Waukesha, Wis.-based GE Healthcare will offer converged wireless network technology from MobileAccess Networks, Vienna, Va. ... Comments (0)
Source: Mobile Health Data, US
Posted: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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Hospitals Want Referral Management
The Southern Illinois Healthcare Foundation in East St. Louis, Ill., will implement referral management software from Park City Solutions Inc., Atlanta. ... Comments (0)
Source: Health Data Management, US
Posted: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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Congress freezes Medicare reimbursement cuts to physicians
The country’s budget bill, which passed the Senate today in a 51-50 vote, freezes the anticipated 4.4 percent Medicare reimbursement cuts to physicians that had been slated to take effect in January 2006.
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Source: Healthcare IT News, US
Posted: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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Healthcare providers deploy Initiate software
Major healthcare providers in the US, Canada and UK have selected Initiate Identity Hub software and services to facilitate increased accuracy of patient identification and enhanced patient safety, data exchange and interoperability. ... Comments (0)
Source: Computer Business Review, UK
Posted: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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Mining biotech's data mother lode
A EU-sponsored project has developed a suite of tools that will enable biotech companies to mine through vast quantities of data created by modern life-science labs to find the nuggets of genetic gold that lie within. ... Comments (0)
Source: IST Results, Belgium
Posted: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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Hospitalists Get PDA Charge Capture
The hospitalist program at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, will offer its physicians hand-held charge capture software from Atlanta-based Ingenious Med Inc. ... Comments (0)
Source: Mobile Health Data, US
Posted: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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Survey Spotlights Similarities, Differences Between RHIOs
A recent report by the American Health Information Management Association finds that regional health information organizations are gaining momentum but that they vary widely in scope and composition. ... Comments (0)
Source: iHealth Beat, US
Posted: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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Paying with Cash, Credit Or Finger
Pay By Touch Inc., a biometrics-payment company, has formed a health care division. The San Francisco-based company says its fingerprint-payment system will be configured to enable patients to access health savings or flexible spending accounts at the point of service. ... Comments (0)
Source: Health Data Management, US
Posted: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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Best in KLAS Announced
KLAS Enterprises LLC, a health care information technology vendor research firm, has announced its 2005 year-end Best in KLAS Awards. The Orem, Utah-based firm surveys and interviews executives at thousands of hospitals and physician practices to score vendor products based on overall customer satisfaction. ... Comments (0)
Source: Health Data Management, US
Posted: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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NHS support focuses on servers, Novell says
Novell Tuesday said its work with the U.K. National Health Service will focus on how open source software can lower the cost of the organization's massive program to revamp its IT systems. ... Comments (0)
Source: NetworkWorld.com, US
Posted: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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Novell starts work on NHS revamp
Novell has started work on its £21.8 million NHs three-year contract to improve the health service's IT systems. "Connecting for Health" hopes to modernise the health service through 12 system-upgrade contracts. The NHS is estimated to save up to £75 million over three years by running Suse Linux Enterprise Server on clinical and non-clinical applications. Novell will also support desktop products already in use.
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Source: Techworld.com, UK
Posted: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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House approves HHS, healthcare IT project funds
Funding for healthcare IT projects under the Office of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology stands at $61.7 million, falling short of the White House’s 2006 budget request.
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Source: Healthcare IT News, US
Posted: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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Records Vendor Links to RHIO
A4 Health Systems Inc. has interfaced its HealthMatics electronic medical records software to HealthBridge, a regional health information organization in Cincinnati. ... Comments (0)
Source: Health Data Management, US
Posted: Monday, December 19, 2005 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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IT & Health = Billions, says IDC
According to a new study by IDC, IT spending in the Western European healthcare sector is expected to grow from $7.8 billion in 2005 to more than $10 billion in 2009, with average growth of 6.7%. ... Comments (0)
Source: IRISHDEV.com, Ireland
Posted: Monday, December 19, 2005 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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Grants to Boost Public Health I.T.
A new grant program from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation will help public health agencies participate in regional health information organizations and other health information exchanges. ... Comments (0)
Source: Health Data Management, US
Posted: Monday, December 19, 2005 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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CPOE studies show mixed results
Conflicting results from two studies of computerized provider order entry systems have drawn attention to the value of such systems and how best to implement them. ... Comments (0)
Source: Healthcare IT News, US
Posted: Monday, December 19, 2005 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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Montefiore's new physician portal to boost home monitoring
Montefiore Medical Center’s home healthcare program may be close to 60 years old, but it continues to find new ways to keep its edge.
In this quarter, the home healthcare division is slated to launch a physician portal aimed at leveraging the data it collects from its 1,700 patients.
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Source: Healthcare IT News, US
Posted: Monday, December 19, 2005 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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Predictive health research launched
Emory University and Georgia Tech will launch a multiyear, multimillion-dollar project today to remake U.S. health care — a bold effort that plays to the schools' strengths in biomedical and engineering research but carries wide ethical, legal and economic complications.
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Source: Oxford Press, US
Posted: Monday, December 19, 2005 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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Health, technology officials talk about state health info system
Imagine going to your doctor's office or the hospital without having to write down all of your personal information and trying to remember each detail of your medical history.
A statewide health information system would allow patient data, details about health care coverage and medical procedures to easily move between doctor's offices, hospitals and insurance companies.
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Source: Fort Worth Star Telegram, US
Posted: Monday, December 19, 2005 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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Software might revolutionize glucose monitoring in critically ill patients
Researchers have developed a new computerized system to easily monitor the levels of glucose in the blood of patients in intensive care. A study published today in the open access journal BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making reports that GRIP, a computer software that assists in the monitoring of glucose levels in critically ill patients, saves nurses time and effort and is more efficient than the paper-based method currently used in many intensive care units (ICUs). ... Comments (0)
Source: innovations report, Germany
Posted: Monday, December 19, 2005 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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