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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.
Massachusetts has awarded $32.6 million in grants and increased Medicaid rate payments to 69 hospitals and community centers across the commonwealth. Some of the facilities will use the grants to upgrade technology.
SafeMed is venturing into new territory, with a new name and some new products designed to push the company's healthcare footprint into new areas.
Thomas Giannulli, MD, is hoping that physicians who are hesitant to invest in full-blown electronic medical records systems will at least buy an iPhone.
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.
South Carolina's 65 acute care hospitals are banding together to prevent healthcare-acquired infections across the state. The effort is expected to save hundreds of lives and as much $40 million a year.
Sometime during the next two months, through grants totaling $1.7 million, the Washington State Health Care Authority, or WSHCA, will launch three consumer-controlled health record bank pilots in the communities of Bellingham, Spokane and Cashmere.
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.
Two physician organizations are weighing in on the healthcare piece of the economic stimulus package, calling on the president and Congress to support healthcare information technology, additional funding for primary care training, Medicaid funding for states and comparative effectiveness research.
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.