Molly Merrill
A collaboration between IBM, Google and the Continua Health Alliance, a group of technology, healthcare and fitness companies, will enable personal medical devices to automatically stream data results into a patient's Google Health account or other personal health record.
Scripps Mercy Physician Partners, a physician business organization and medical group based in San Diego, is leveraging information technology to boost member collaboration in its health initiative.
With nine weeks to go, officials are reporting that early registration for the 2009 Annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Conference & Exhibition (HIMSS09) is running ahead of the 2008 trend.
UnitedHealth Group has adopted new standards for healthcare ID cards across all its health plans. The cards will provide patient eligibility information and access to a personal health record, and process healthcare transactions.
Crusader Community Health, one of the largest Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) in Illinois, is preparing to implement an electronic medical record and practice management system for its 54 providers and four locations.
Two vendors have joined forces to develop technology and services aimed at helping Canadian physicians provide chronic disease management programs to their patients.
The Healthcare Business of Thomson Reuters will be helping to implement CMS' Medicare Medical Home Demonstration Project that is set to begin next year.
Compliance standards are poised to drive the healthcare security industry into double-digit growth rates, according to market analyst Frost & Sullivan.
UnitedHealth Group and PacifiCare awarded more than $5.7 million in healthcare grants to California nonprofits to enhance information technology, education, prevention and coordinated care throughout the state.
The National Institute for Mental Health has implemented a Web-based system to automate its forms and workflow processes.