Bernie Monegain
Catholic Health Initiatives, a Denver-based healthcare system, will hire more than 200 high-tech workers to help roll out its new clinical system across the country.
Healthcare providers and payers face complex challenges when trying to maximize the value of their clinical data, but their expectations for clinical analytics vary significantly, according to a new study.
Healthrageous, a new personalized health technology company, has landed $6 million in financing to bring to market technologies developed at the Boston-based Center for Connected Health, a division of Partners Healthcare.
The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to spend $10.9 million to improve HIPAA compliance for VistA, its enterprise-wide electronic health record system.
Clara Maass Medical Center, a 445-bed hospital in Belleville, N.J. will provide emergency medical services at Red Bull Arena, a new 25,000 seat soccer stadium in Harrison, N.J. The medical center will use its emergency department electronic health record on-site to ensure secure exchange of patient information from the arena's medical center to the hospital when needed.
'Rapid learning' systems that use large electronic health record databases can quickly advance the delivery of cancer care and accelerate research, according to a new report from the Institute of Medicine.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has selected Companion Data Services to provide data processing and hosting operations for a National Level Repository system that will track incentive payments to heathcare providers that adopt electronic health records and upgrade their computer systems.
A recent study finds that remote online visits with dermatologists achieved equivalent clinical outcomes for acne patients. Also, doctors and patients ranked the e-visits as convenient and time-saving and said they could be used as a model for chronic conditions such as diabetes and hypertension.
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced Thursday $83.9 million in grants to 45 organizations to help networks of health centers adopt electronic health records and other health information technology systems.
The Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute will use a five-year, $2.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to explore whether school-based telemedicine sessions with doctors can help students in rural areas control their asthma.