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GE and Intel announced Monday that their joint healthcare initiative will be called Care Innovations, and that the company is operational starting today. Care Innovations will develop technologies that support healthy, independent living at home and in senior housing communities.
Telcare, a Bethesda, Md.-based company focused on developing technology to manage chronic diseases, has raised $4.46 million of a targeted $5 million in a mixed securities offering, according to an amended SEC filing. The financing sources were not named in the filing.
The Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Program Registration and Attestation System portal went live on Monday, representing a major step in the health information technology landscape.
MedTech Media, the publisher of Healthcare IT News, Healthcare Finance News and a suite of related online products, will begin publishing the bimonthly magazine Government Health IT in 2011.
CMS updates Medicare provider directory with first phase of Physician Compare Web site.
Federal auditors will monitor CMS as it upgrades its computer systems and awards incentive payments to eligible meaningful users of EHRs.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced Thursday improvements to its Physician Directory tool with the launch of the first phase of its Physician Compare website, which provides consumers with more information about providers including data about quality of care.
Document corrects typographical and technical errors identified in the meaningful use final rule published in July.
McKesson Corp., a healthcare services and information technology company, has completed its acquisition of US Oncology, a company that serves one of the nation's largest networks of community-based oncologists.
More than 200 million mHealth applications are in use today, and that number is expected to increase threefold by 2012, according to a new report from Pyramid Research.