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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A report by the Brookings Institution suggests that mobile devices could help reduce medical costs and improve patient care. An analysis by Robert Litan, an economist for Brookings, found that
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is expected to approve a plan this week to dedicate some of the available bandwidth to wireless healthcare monitoring devices. The government agency will consider the
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A report by the Department of Homeland Security states that the healthcare industry’s increasing adoption of mobile technology can pose risks to health data. The report, titled “Attack Surface: Healthcare
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Health Level Seven International (HL7), a non-profit standards development organization, is encouraging clinician healthcare providers to participate in developing standards for Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems. The ANSI-accredited global authority
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