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Carrier to issue free medical ID credentials to 2.3 M physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners.
Projections for the mobile health industry show that by 2015 there will be 500 million people using mobile health applications on their smartphones, according to a new report by a Berlin-based market research company.
Department will test browser-based interface and multi-tiered architecture as foundation for VistA modernization.
CSC's first customer outside of Denmark for its LABKA II Laboratory Information System will be Blekinge county in Sweden. The system will be used to support the Karlskrona and Karlshamn hospitals within the Swedish province administrative county, providing healthcare professionals with a more efficient, safer laboratory information service.
IBM and Aetna subsidiary ActiveHealth Management, alongside Medens Corp., will deliver cloud services to help physicians in Puerto Rico share and exchange health information and make more accurate decisions about patient care.
When it comes to referrals, physicians are still more likely to pick up the phone than to electronically share the patient's information with another provider, according to a new survey.
A Department of Health and Human Services advisory group has proposed broad steps that healthcare organizations should take in order to establish their corporate identities for the simple exchanges of patient information that will be required under the first stage of meaningful use.
A class action filed against Florida insurer AvMed Health Plans seeks redress for a data breach that occurred when two laptops, containing patient information for 1.2 million members, were stolen from the company's headquarters in December 2009.
Pediatrician and Harvard professor Donald Berwick, MD, chief of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services since July 12, went to Capitol Hill Wednesday to outline the agency's plans for making the programs stronger and more modern, in part by employing health information technology.
Organizations exchanging health data should possess digital credentials to verify their corporate identity, privacy panel says.