This week, the Electronic Health Record (EHR) Association of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) submitted a response to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT
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A White House Health IT Town Hall brought 82 healthcare providers to Washington, D.C. on Tuesday for recognition of their implementations of Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems. Senior White House and
White House Town Hall Notes EHR Progress Read More »
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) is planning to assist small- and medium-sized medical practices in securing their mobile devices. The new project aims to educate
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San Antonio-based AirStrip Technologies and California’s Palomar Health have teamed up to open up clinical data access to providers through a mobile platform. Palomar Health, comprising two hospitals and clinics
Mobile Platform for Clinical Data Read More »
Last week, the Premier healthcare alliance unveiled the world’s largest virtual healthcare community to help over 100,000 providers share patient outcome data and best practices. The new network will integrate
PremierConnect Virtual Community Launched Read More »
A study published by PriceWaterhouseCoopers finds greater adoption of telehealth by developing countries, driven by empowered patients. However, a reluctance to adapt on the part of physicians, along with regulatory
mHealth Adopted More by Developing Nations Read More »
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett announced in May that the state’s Medical Assistance program would more fully embrace telemedicine by expanding coverage for it. The expansion is expected to help more
Telemedicine Coverage Expanded in PA Read More »
A recent report from Surescripts notes that, in 2011, 36% of all prescriptions in the U.S. were submitted electronically, an increase of 22% over the year 2010. The electronic prescribing
One-Third of U.S. Prescriptions Electronic Read More »
The GSMA yesterday announced the joint team of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Brazil’s Federal University of Rio Grade Do Norte as the winner of its inaugural Mobile
Sana AudioPulse Project Wins GSMA Mobile Health University Challenge Read More »
South Shore Hospital in South Weymouth, MA has agreed to pay $750,000 to settle charges related to a data breach that occurred in 2010. The Massachusetts Attorney General’s office announced
Massachusetts Hospital Settles Data Breach Case for $750K Read More »
