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A panel of healthcare experts representing privacy, trends, technology, regulatory, data breach and governance have identified the top seven trends in healthcare information privacy for 2011.
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.
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.
The iPad has made its debut at a hospital in Israel where doctors have been given the technology to use on- and off-site.
A program that uses smartphones to transmit ECGs from the ambulance to the cath lab at the University Hospital in Newark, N.J., is showing improvement in patient outcomes.
Optimism is prevalent in the healthcare IT sector, where 77 percent of venture capitalists expect investment to increase, according to results of the 2011 Venture View predictions survey, conducted by the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) and Dow Jones VentureSource.
Six technologies, whose impact has been measured by hospitals, can improve workflow and communication for nurses while boosting patient care, according to analysts.
Behavior Imaging Solutions - a technology firm focused on more effectively assessing, treating and training professionals working with autism, brain disorders and PTSD - announced Thursday the results of its recent telehealth-based operational assessment, conducted on behalf of the U.S. Air Force Medical Service.
Two recent data breaches involving personal health information on portable storage devices highlight the need for healthcare organizations to make the New Year's resolution to tighten up security.