25 April 2012
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has recently revised its National Action Plan to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections. The new draft includes substantial IT participation in the task of monitoring healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), which is spear-headed by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) and Centers for Disease Control and [...]
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23 April 2012
Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX), as part of its ambitious three-year European growth plan, has announced the acquisition consulting services provider TriSolve Ltd., in order to extend global supply chain capabilities.
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11 April 2012
Bangalore, India-based Telerad Tech has been roped in as the managed service provider (MSP) for HealthPresence™, the telemedicine platform by Cisco in India.
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06 April 2012
In order to better the efforts of the electronic exchange of health data, IDC Health Insights has released best practices to inform and educate organizations on the establishment of health information exchanges (HIE) within an enterprise or across a community. Leveraging inputs and experiences of almost 50 executives from successful early enterprise, regional and statewide [...]
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30 March 2012
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has announced the release of the latest upgrade of the CONNECT gateway software, CONNECT 3.3. It comes with performance enhancements, newer features, maintenance fixtures, and software updates.
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27 March 2012
Continua Health Alliance has announced the certification for a mobile health service offering for the first time to iPhone Mobile Manager, an application from Vignet, Inc., to manage personal health data on Apple mobile devices.
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22 March 2012
ST Advisors, LLC, has estimated the US revenue cycle management (RCM) market to rise from about $4 billion of 2010 to over $9 billion by 2018. This, they estimate is a cause, in part, of the anticipated changes in medical reimbursement regulations. The acceleration in challenges due to these changes, including the transition to ICD-10 [...]
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20 March 2012
Dr Milind Antani, Head – Pharma & Life Science at Nishith Desai Associates expresses his views on the laws that govern the practice of mobile health. Q. What are the laws that cover mobile health activities? How stringent are these laws in the current day practice? A. There are no specific laws which govern the [...]
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20 March 2012
The world has an unprecedented opportunity to revolutionize healthcare. A bold statement? Yes, but one founded in fact. For the first time in history, a clear majority of the world’s people have access to telecommunications, and increasingly the Internet; thanks to the dramatic expansion of mobile networks over the past five years. These networks now [...]
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16 March 2012
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has released a report on protected health information (PHI) security, namely, The Financial Impact of Breached Protected Health Information: A Business Case for Enhanced PHI Security, which offers a novel means of evaluating PHI at risk. The report would enable healthcare providers to conceive a business case for the [...]
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