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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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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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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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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has entered into a collaboration with text4baby, a free mHealth initiative, to drive the enrolment for Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and Medicaid. CMS intends on leveraging the services of text4baby to educate pregnant women and new mothers on vital healthcare tips, reminders, and alerts through text [...]

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A recent report by KLAS shows that 95% of respondents confirm gains in operational efficiency with the use of real-time location system (RTLS) solution.

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With a mission to promote interoperable, personal connected health products and services, the Continua Health Alliance has collaborated with Telecommunications Technology Associations (TTA) to set up a new Continua test lab at South Korea, for the certification of products released in the Asian market. In an interview with the Health IT NEWS.Direct! team, Kanghae Lee, [...]

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San Diego, California-based Awarepoint Corporation has acquired North Carolina’s Patient Care Technology Systems (PCTS), a provider of workflow automation solutions, for an undisclosed amount. Through this agreement, PCTS’ clinical applications and software platform will be combined with Awarepoint’s real-time location system (RTLS) technology platform, to provide the healthcare industry with an enterprise-wide RTLS solution.

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GE Healthcare Performance Solutions and Cisco have entered into a partnership to offer a new mobility technology platform that integrates GE’s AgileTrac™ platform with Cisco’s Context-Aware Software (CAS) and Cisco Unified Wireless Network (CUWN). This solution is expected to help healthcare providers deliver better care and improve efficiency by helping in regulating equipment, staff, and [...]

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The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) supports the health care of more than 5 million veterans each year. It has been suggested that the quality of services delivered to the veterans has been reinforced by concerted efforts made to extend the use of health IT, apart from other measures like managing chronic conditions, improving [...]

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