Molly Merrill
The recently formed Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media has established the Social Media Health Network, a group dedicated to using social media to promote healthcare. The network was announced Tuesday at the Second Annual Social Media Summit in Jacksonville, Fla.
A group from Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University is developing virtual technology designed to help young adults with mental illnesses better manage their care.
Not-for-profit HealthInfoNet, the state of Maine’s health information exchange, and the designated Regional Extension Center for the state, has received a $4.7 million federal grant to help providers adopt electronic health records and achieve meaningful use.
MEDS-ED Link, a project of the Northern Virginia Regional Health Information Organization (NoVaRHIOsm) in conjunction with Inova Health System and GE Healthcare, recently launched to provide emergency docs at the hospital with access to patient medication histories.
Christiana Care Health System a private, not-for-profit tertiary-care hospital system with locations in Wilmington and Newark, Del., has launched two major initiatives that aim to drive healthcare IT adoption among community physicians.
The Gulf Coast Regional Extension Center (GCREC) at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) opened its enrollment period for eligible practitioners last month.
David Blumenthal, MD, national coordinator for health information technology, has named the final two Regional Extension Centers (RECs). They will cover Orange County, Calif., and the state of New Hampshire.
The devotion teenagers pay to their text messages may not be a bad thing, if children's hospitals can use it to help boost medication adherence in their patients.
Nimble, a new comprehensive EMR application designed and developed specifically for the iPad, hit the market Tuesday with the aim of allowing docs to provide meaningful care - at the point of care.
HIMSS has launched a State HIT Dashboard to provide healthcare professionals, policy makers and stakeholders a snapshot of major health information technology initiatives underway across the nation.