Mike Miliard
eCardio Diagnostics, a developer of arrhythmia monitoring solutions, has joined forces with AT&T to provide mobile technology-based care for heart patients. Under the partnership, AT&T is providing eCardio with machine-to-machine (M2M) wireless data and mobile connectivity for near real-time, remote monitoring.
Omnicell, which makes automated dispensing systems and other medication management solutions for acute care facilities, has announced its acquisition of Pandora Data Systems, a Scotts Valley, Calif.-based provider of data analysis software for medication diversion detection.
Health Resources and Services Administration, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has bestowed $792,000 on the University of Louisville School of Nursing with an eye towards helping it develop a nursing informatics program for the school's undergraduate and graduate students, as well as for practicing nurses from University of Louisville Hospital.
Alliance Health Networks, which develops social health networks to unite individuals in online communities centered around diseases and conditions, has announced that Leavitt Partners - founded by former Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael O. Leavitt - will help it expand its presence in the U.S. healthcare industry and beyond.
APP Design, a software development firm specializing in the design, development and integration of healthcare systems, announced that it has been selected to design and develop a real-time patient consent interface for WNYHealtheNet through its RHIOnet product.
There is "no distinction between information management and healthcare," said Peter Salgo, MD, associate director of surgical intensive care at Presbyterian Hospital in New York, in his rousing presentation at AHIMA on Tuesday. And the people who know how to synthesize, store, and integrate medical information will lead the massive healthcare changes of the 21st century.
"We're at an inflection point," said Paul Tang, MD, vice president and chief medical information officer at Palo Alto Medical Foundation, in his keynote speech at AHIMA on Tuesday. "For once, the stars are aligned."
Surgeon General Regina M. Benjamin learned a few things in her old job running the Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic in Alabama. First, the job didn't just entail "sewing up the shark bites" - there were plenty of "land sharks" (regulators and red-tape dispensers) to fend off, too. Second, EHRs are an absolute must-have.
Two and a half years after its launch, Google Health has unveiled a "top-to-bottom" redesign – with a new focus on attracting a users who want to "actively manage their health and wellness."
When word got out this past summer that Google and Verizon had negotiated a "secret pact" (as one alarmist account put it) to essentially bypass the concept of net neutrality – which holds that all online data should be conveyed at the same speed, regardless of whose content it is – the reaction from bloggers and journalists was immediate and impassioned.