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eCardio Diagnostics, a developer of arrhythmia monitoring solutions, has joined forces with AT&T to provide mobile technology-based care for heart patients. Under the partnership, AT&T is providing eCardio with machine-to-machine (M2M) wireless data and mobile connectivity for near real-time, remote monitoring.
Taconic Health Information Network and Community (THINC) has been awarded an $8.7 million grant for a project that aims to boost mental health care coordination among six medical home practices through the use of health IT.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has launched a website where providers can find products that have been certified for meaningful use.
The Veterans Affairs Department's pharmacy re-engineering project - tagged as a troubled project last year - was put back on track after being divided into a series of smaller, incremental jobs.
The nation's healthcare IT chief, David Blumenthal, MD, acknowledged that achieving meaningful use of health IT would be hard work, and then told his audience of more than 600 health system and hospital CIOs and IT managers there would be even harder work ahead.
In West Texas, where unemployment is at 2 percent, the popular chain Chili's had to close some of its restaurants because there were not enough employees to fill the jobs. Imagine what it's like for a healthcare system in that part of the country to recruit IT staff, says Gary L. Barnes, CIO of Medical Center Health System in Odessa, Texas.
CIO Baker tells Senate panel that veterans agency is studying modernization path for VistA electronic medical record system.
ONC publishes first set of EHRs approved under the temporary certification program to meet meaningful use deadlines for 2011.
Regional extension centers (RECs) are just beginning their work to help priority primary care physicians adopt EHRs. Many of them, however, have developed sustainability plans to take them beyond years three and four of the meaningful use criteria milestones.
Omnicell, which makes automated dispensing systems and other medication management solutions for acute care facilities, has announced its acquisition of Pandora Data Systems, a Scotts Valley, Calif.-based provider of data analysis software for medication diversion detection.