Mike Miliard
At this week's Audiology NOW! 2010 Conference, which focuses on hearing instruments and technologies to support audiologists and their patients, Panasonic announced that it will enter the hearing care business in the U.S. healthcare market.
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has received nearly $8 million in federal stimulus money from the Ohio Health Information Partnership, funding that will position the school as a regional extension center (REC) to help 1,765 providers in the state advance their use of health IT.
Today at the World Health Care Congress, American Well, the Boston-based maker of online care systems, announced the next step in its mission to better connect patients with doctors, irrespective of location.
Providence Health & Services, the Oregon-based not-for-profit health system, has upgraded to GE Healthcare's Centricity EMR platform.
Rochester RHIO, the upstate New York regional health information organization, has extended its information exchange capabilities to six more hospitals in the area.
Management Health Solutions, the Fairfield, Conn.-based provider of clinical inventory solutions, has announced its acquisition of AtPar Inc., a developer of mobile supply chain software.
Maine's HealthInfoNet, the state's designated health information exchange, was awarded $4.7 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, just as Gov. John E. Baldacci issued an executive order creating two new state entities responsible for the expansion and coordination of healthcare IT.
Even as providers work to update their security environments, hospital data continues to be at serious risk, according to a new report from HIMSS Analytics.
Kinetic Muscles, Inc. (KMI), a provider of neurorehabilitation technology and rehabilitation products for stroke, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy and spinal cord injury patients, has received a two-year Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant to study a new treatment for military veterans returning from war with traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Pharmacy OneSource, of Bellevue, Wa., a software-as-a-service provider to more than 1,300 hospitals in the United States, announced the launch of VeriForm, a new web-based hospital checklist documentation and reporting system.