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Three U.S. hospitals are now depending on a new trend in health IT to help them overcome a clinician shortage in rural areas: electronic intensive care units.
Intuit Inc., the Mountain View, Calif.-based provider of financial management solutions for small and mid-sized businesses, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Medfusion, of Cary, N.C., which makes front-office and back-office software designed to improve patient-to-provider communications.
A Department of Health and Human Services workgroup is wrestling with questions of whether existing laws are strong enough to protect the privacy of patient information conveyed using NHIN Direct, a set of specifications for helping healthcare organizations swap data electronically.
When it comes to technology in healthcare you can't say, "Do as I say, not as I do." Those are the words of Renee McLeod, pediatric nurse practitioner, founder and dean of the Brandman University School of Nursing and Health Professionals.
Employer organization Dossia and Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic will integrate Mayo Clinic EmbodyHealth, a personal health management portal, with the Dossia Personal Health Platform. The integration makes the EmbodyHealth portal available to members of the Dossia network.
A new bill would require Defense and Veterans Affairs departments to build Internet portal for veterans to access records and benefits.
Policymakers wrestle with how to protect patient data transmitted by health information network middlemen.
Forty-seven percent of IT security professionals believe their personal healthcare information is less secure than it was a year ago, according to a recent survey.
LifeIMAGE, which provides an Internet service for universal e-sharing of diagnostic imaging information, has launched a new platform that is designed to speed up image sharing during emergency transfers.
HHS's Office of Civil Rights describes basic elements of a risk analysis required by the HIPAA security rule.