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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced new recommendations and initiatives on Monday to support health text messaging and mobile health (mHealth) programs.
Some of the most devastating tornadoes and floods in U.S. history have occurred in just the last two years. IT professionals who survived the storms say their technology held up well. They felt lucky to have paperless systems in place.
Just two days after announcing its acquisition of assets from Southlake, Texas-based CySolutions, Greenway Medical Technologies is making more news: the expansion of its Georgia headquarters and the addition of some 400 jobs.
With PACS and other diagnostic imaging files quickly diminishing healthcare data storage capacities, providers are scrambling to find a much larger repository to handle their needs. More and more, that means gravitating toward the cloud, IT vendors say.
Hard to believe, but it's been more than two and a half years since the HITECH Act first laid the lucrative incentives on the table to stimulate physician uptake of electronic health record adoption.
Will accountable care organizations follow the lead of HIEs in analyzing data across participating providers, or surpass them? In this series, we are examining ways health IT can best support the goals of accountable care organizations (ACOs) for health reform.
The Department of Health and Human Services has extended the comment period for its proposed rule on health insurance exchanges.
Healthcare is swimming in data. Objectively, that's a good thing, of course. But a sea of information is useless – and can sometimes be harmful – without a way to navigate it, to get the right data at the right time.
A unique summer program, which paired physicians at Mount Nittany Medical Center with pre-med students at Penn State, has proved to be successful in coaching doctors on EMR use and giving students a real-life experience in a hospital setting.
Susan Herron has a new tool at her disposal for checking medication administration at the patient’s bedside. Among its attributes, she says, “It bounces pretty good.”