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iPhone Platform Gets 3M Health Care Dictation App

February 26th, 2010 | No Comments

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 is releasing a 3M Mobile Dictation Software for the iPhone platform.

The mobile application, announced Feb. 25, enables physicians to
dictate notes, view patient lists and view patient information on their
mobile device, using WiFi or a 3G connection.

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Microsoft and Eclipsys Announce Health Care IT Alliance

February 24th, 2010 | No Comments

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 health care data. Both companies announced that the alliance would more health care organizations existing IT infrastructure more efficient in its information storage and retrieval.
– Microsoft and Eclipsys announced an alliance Feb. 24 that will see
components of the latters Sunrise Enterprise suite integrated into the former’s
Amalga Unified Intelligence System, providing health care organizations such as
hospitals with increased analytic capabilities on top of unified sto…


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GE Healthcare, Intel and Mayo Clinic Explore New Models of Health Care Delivery

February 23rd, 2010 | No Comments

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.

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E Prescription Software: Making Health Care Services Better Posted By : Article Publisher

February 18th, 2010 | No Comments

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.

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Jessica Simpson will go nude only for “next husband”

February 17th, 2010 | No Comments

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’ get an Oscar for it, [...]

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Macquarie International Infrastructure Fund to divest 55% stake in Canadian Aged Care for $91.5m

February 16th, 2010 | No Comments

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 Canadian Aged Care (CAC) portfolio (also known as Leisureworld Senior Care LP) from Macquarie Power & Infrastructure Income Fund and Macquarie Group.

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Health Care Field Eyeing Apple iPad

February 5th, 2010 | No Comments

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.
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The Apple
iPad, which is scheduled to ship in the March timeframe, will more than
pique the interests of enterprise users, say industry observers. And
according to a Feb. 4 report from Epocrates, which offers a medical application
in the Apple App Store, the medical community is …


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How to Secure Health Care Data to Meet HITECH Act Compliance

February 1st, 2010 | No Comments

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 information. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Gretchen Hellman explains the new HITECH Act compliance requirements, their implications and some best practices for meeting HITECH Act compliance.
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February 2009, President Obama signed the Health Information Technology
for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act as part of his overall
economic stimulus plan. The HITECH Act continues the effort of the
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) to
encourage movement to…


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Parkway Holdings rolls out post-surgical care insurance policy for patients

January 21st, 2010 | No Comments

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 Singapore.

Available to all Singaporeans and foreign patients of Parkway hospitals, Post-Surgical Care Insurance provides insurance coverage for surgical complications relating to 64 types of surgical procedures, at affordable premium rates.

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Republican Brown wins Senate seat, endangering Obama’s health care plan

January 20th, 2010 | No Comments

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. The loss Tuesday by

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Microsoft’s Bing Offers Expanded Health Care Data

January 13th, 2010 | No Comments

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 to compete against Google.
– As part of Microsoft’s broader refinement of Bing, its search
engine, health-related searches have started drawing in more information from
new partners and databases. Termed the quot;enhanced Bing Health search experience, quot;
queries on health topics now return data from multiple sources, st…


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Economist: Health Care Bill “Is Just Another Bailout Of The Financial System”

December 30th, 2009 | No Comments

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…

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‘We did really well’ on health care reform: Obama

December 24th, 2009 | No Comments

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. “I actually

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IBM Strikes Electronic Health Care Records Deals

December 22nd, 2009 | No Comments

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.
– IBM is looking to help health care businesses put their medical
records into a digital format while they wait for federal stimulus
funds to become available.
IBM announced Dec. 22 that its lending unit, IBM Global Financing,
has signed new financing agreements with four EHR (electronic health
r…


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Obama health care overhaul clears key Senate hurdle

December 21st, 2009 | No Comments

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 — voted

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Microsoft to Acquire Health Care IT Company Sentillion

December 10th, 2009 | No Comments

Microsoft plans to acquire Sentillion, a privately held health care IT company that provides software applications for caregivers and physicians. Microsoft has made a number of partnerships in health care IT throughout 2009, including a deal with the American Medical Association to give physicians access to patient records through Microsoft’s HealthVault application. IT companies ranging from Google to Intel and Oracle have also pushed into the health care IT space.
– Microsoft
announced plans Dec. 10 to acquire Sentillion, a privately held health care IT
company. On its Website, Sentillion advertises itself as producing
quot;identity and access management technology quot; that allows hospitals and
caregivers to incorporate and control quot;islands of compu…


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Health Care Software Provider COO Faces Fed Fraud Charges

December 7th, 2009 | No Comments

Canopy Financial COO Jeremy Blackburn could be going to jail for a very long time for fraud. The health care software company executive is accused of creating fake audit reports, phony bank statements and transferring unauthorized funds to his personal accounts. Both the Justice Department and SEC have filed complaints against the executive.
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Canopy
Financial, a health care software company, is on the hot seat for
misleading and defrauding investors and auditors on its financial
health. Canopy’s COO, Jeremy Blackburn, is facing both criminal and
civil charges and faces a potential 20-year prison sentence and civil
fines of $250,00…


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Cutting Health Care Costs on a Mac

November 23rd, 2009 | No Comments

Using a Mac Pro as the keystone of his rural radiology practice in Bemidji, Minnesota, Dr. Hilton Bakker is able not only to reduce the costs of his own practice but those of the hospitals who use his services. Says Bakker: “If hospitals can use Mac technology to do radiology cheaper, that’s my goal. Health care costs too much. If I can do my little bit to make it cheaper, that’s cool.”

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Verizon Offers Collaboration Suite for Health Care

November 23rd, 2009 | No Comments

Verizon is rolling out its Telehealth Collaboration Services, which will help health care organizations set up online collaboration environments that will help physicians connect remotely with patients and other health care professionals. Verizon also will help organizations design and implement the telehealth environments. Other vendors, such as Cisco, also are getting into the telehealth field, which one analyst firm said could grow into a $6.1 billion market annually.
– Verizon is looking to bring its collaboration capabilities to the health care field.
Verizon on Nov. 23 unveiled its Telehealth Collaboration Services, which are designed to let health care professionals collaborate remotely via the Internet with patients and other professionals in the field.
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Intel Announces Increased Momentum for Personalized Care Management at Home with the Intel® Health Guide

November 23rd, 2009 | No Comments

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 23, 2009 – The Intel® Health Guide, Intel Corporation’s next-generation personal health system, continues to win in the personal health marketplace with the addition of a new government value-added reseller (VAR) and several new customers.

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