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The new solutions allow health care companies to address key processes such as care coordination and patient flow, and helps ensure their efficient operation. - Avaya introduced this week a new set of unified communications designed to improve the quality of patient care while increasing ROI and savings. ...

Dell and the American Medical Association are teaming up to create a platform designed to make it easier for physicians and other health care providers to adopt and deploy IT that will make them more efficient and help drive down costs. The platform is being beta tested and will be ...

Sprint Nextel CEO Dan Hesse's keynote address at the annual HIMSS conference emphasizes the health care advances that high-speed wireless connectivity such as Sprint's 4G network with Clearwire can make possible. - Mobile solutions powered by high-speed networks will continue to help the health care industry improve the ...

Nuance introduced a number of mobile solutions for the health care industry, featuring speech-recognition, voice-based search, voice capture and data structuring technologies. - Nuance is introducing a suite of Dragon Medical Mobile solutions for the health care industry March 1. Building on solutions Nuance currently offers for ...

Oracle announced two new health care IT solutions, including a multiple-use data repository for health care data and a health care analytics package, at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Conference Exhibition. The new software seeks to provide health care organizations with an end-to-end solution, mimicking Oracles ...

The iPhone OS is the latest platform to receive a 3M Mobile Dictation Software app, which enables health care staff to dictate notes for transcription and quick delivery to hospital systems. The app is already offered for BlackBerry and Windows Mobile platforms. - 3M Health Information Systems ...

Microsoft and Eclipsys announced an alliance Feb. 24 that will combine certain Eclipsys health care IT applications with Microsoft's Amalga Unified Intelligence System, which aggregates disparate information for health care organizations. Microsoft's forays into health care IT include not only Amalga, but also its HealthVault, an online depository for patient ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. - GE Healthcare, Intel Corporation and Mayo Clinic are investigating a new model of health care delivery for patients at increased risk of rehospitalization that is designed to meet patients' needs where they are, including in their homes.

E-prescription is all about providing health services better and to keep a track on the health condition of the patients. It is developed in a user friendly method and free from all the negative aspects of paper prescription. It significantly reduced the fraud and tampering of the handwritten prescriptions.

Jessica Simpson says she will never go nude except for her future hubby. Brushing aside ex-flame John Mayer’s recent comments labelling her as “sexual napalm”, she said: “I will never do nudity…I don’t care how dark and intellectual the role could be, you know? I don’t care if I frickin’ ...

Macquarie International Infrastructure Fund (MIIF) says Leisureworld Senior Care Corporation has filed a preliminary prospectus with the Canadian securities regulatory authorities in relation to a proposed initial public offering of common shares. With the net proceeds of the IPO, Leisureworld will acquire 100% of the ownership interests in the ...

The Apple iPad already has the medical community intrigued, says a new study, which reports that nearly 20 percent of surveyed clinicians expressed interest in the iPad, while 9 percent plan to scoop one up asap. - The Apple iPad, which is scheduled to ship in the March ...

The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act was enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The HITECH Act imposes certain requirements on vendors of personal health records (and other related entities) in the event of certain security breaches relating to protected health ...

Parkway Holdings says wholly-owned subsidiary, Parkway Hospitals Singapore, has partnered Overseas Assurance Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Great Eastern Holdings, to develop and offer Post-Surgical Care Insurance, a post-surgical care insurance policy which provides coverage for treatment of post-surgical complications for local and foreign patients admitted to Parkway hospitals in ...

In a major upset in liberal Massachusetts, Republican Scott Brown has ridden a wave of voter anger to defeat Democrat Martha Coakley in a US Senate election that left President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul in doubt and marred the end of his first year in office. ...

Microsoft has made health care-related queries on Bing, its search engine, more robust by offering key related topics and access to a summary of health resources in response to searches. In 2010, Microsoft apparently plans to refine its search engines relevancy, and will likely expand its features as it seeks ...

It is obvious that many republicans oppose the proposed health care bill. But many liberals and progressives oppose it as well.For example, economist L. Randall Wray writes: Here’s the opportunity, Wall Street’s newest and bestest gamble: there i...

On the eve of an unusual Christmas Eve Senate vote to pass health care reform legislation, President Barack Obama said Wednesday he was "very proud" of the overhaul lawmakers are set to pass. "I'd say we did really well," Obama told National Public Radio in an interview. ...

IBM Global Financing has entered into deals with four health care organizations to help them pay for their EHR projects while they await federal stimulus funds. The deals also will enable IBM to collect interest on the financing and raise its profile in the growing health care IT market. ...

President Barack Obama's top domestic goal, remaking US health care, cleared a key Senate hurdle Monday with no room to spare and seemed on track to pass by his self-imposed Christmas deadline. The chamber's 58 Democrats and two independent allies -- exactly the 60 senators needed -- ...