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Mumbai-based Jaslok Hospital has chosen Singapore-based Napier Healthcare Solutions’ next generation mobile electronic health records platform, Napier EHRm, for meeting its management requirements and help their staff (over 1,100) deliver services more quickly and efficiently.

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MedeAnalytics, Inc, a provider of performance management solutions for the healthcare industry has announced that the State of Mississippi Medicaid will be incorporating MedeAnalytics’ Accountable Care Solution into their Medicaid Electronic Health Records System (MEHRS) application. The main objective of this initiative is to integrate clinical and claims information from numerous health information exchanges for [...]

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Sectra AB, a provider of medical imaging IT solutions, has won a six-year contract worth SEK 55.8 million- from a Swedish healthcare provider Region Skane. The new deal involves developing, maintaining, and supporting Sectra IT solutions, used in nuclear medicine, radiology, clinical physiology, and mammography units for communicating and managing patient health data, throughout the [...]

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A recent report by IDC Health Insights, a provider of market research and advisory services, reveals that healthcare setups, recognizing the role of data in accountable care’s success, are concentrating on investing in analytics for population health management.

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Needham, MA-based, iMDsoft ® has announced the launch of a new solution, MVpanorama. The new solution is expected to offer a complete, centralized actionable patient data to care providers. Established in 1996, iMDsoft has offices in the US, Netherlands, Germany, Australia, and Israel and is part of the TPG Growth, an investment company concerned with [...]

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New Delhi-based Healthpoint Services India Private Limited, has partnered with Max Healthcare, a provider of healthcare services, to offer telemedicine services to rural Punjab. Through this agreement, the two organizations will unify their efforts in healthcare and medical services.

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Wipro Technologies, a global IT, outsourcing, and consulting company, in partnership with Microsoft Corporation has rolled out the Wipro AssureHealth platform. Targeted mainly at care providers, the platform provides innovative solutions for Cardiac Care and Remote Fetal Monitoring that will help provide low cost, high quality treatment, mainly for chronic diseases.

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Phoenix, AZ-based Phoenix Children’s Hospital has chosen Allscripts (a provider of connected-care solutions) Sunrise suite of products to link its community with an integrated financial and clinical platform.

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Before creating interoperable IT systems in healthcare, it is important to understand the meaning of interoperability. ‘Conceptual interoperability’ and ‘Data Information Knowledge Wisdom (DIKW) Pyramid’ are two terms used in a more generic context to indicate the exchange of data/information and its usage between different systems. DIKW Pyramid provides the basic difference between data and [...]

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New Hampshire Health Information Organization (NHHIO) has chosen Orion Health Inc, a provider of eHealth technology, and Waltham, MA-based Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (MAeHC) to provide technology and Executive Director Management services, respectively, necessary for implementing a Health Information Exchange (HIE) across the state.

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