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The Department of Veterans Affairs will make $80 million available to test technology applications developed through a competition to find innovative solutions to VA's most pressing healthcare challenges, including homelessness, expanding online healthcare and strategies for treating kidney disease on an outpatient basis.
Secure data transfer and fast performing SaaS solutions will be exhibited by Premium vendors at the June 2010 HIMSS Virtual Conference and Expo.
The only healthcare IT event that brings you networking, exhibits, education sessions and keynotes in a virtual format kicks off this week, live from your computer.
MEDecision announced Monday a partnership with NaviNet that will enable payers to deliver patient clinical summaries to any provider enrolled in the NaviNet Network.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has selected Companion Data Services to provide data processing and hosting operations for a National Level Repository system that will track incentive payments to heathcare providers that adopt electronic health records and upgrade their computer systems.
HP, one of the world's largest technology companies, announced Tuesday that it would be cutting 9,000 jobs as it readies to launch a new era of enterprise services - one that has a focus on cloud computing.
"I think open source is the right thing to do the same way I believe science is better than alchemy," software pioneer Linus Torvald, who developed the "kernel" that's the basis of the Linux operating system, has said. "Like science, open source allows people to build on a solid base of previous knowledge…. It's just a superior way of working together."
A significant portion of healthcare activities can be done on a remote basis. By electronically linking patient and provider, chronic disease management, prescription renewals, vital sign monitoring and various other services can be accomplished for a fraction of the cost of a personal office visit.
Hospitals and physician practices that don't get on board now with social media are missing a huge opportunity to build their brand, according to experts.
By early July, the Office of the National Coordinator will announce the winners of 11 contracts for developing a health information exchange framework based on a model originated by federal homeland security agencies for sharing sensitive information over the Internet.