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The healthcare industry is spending an estimated $6 billion annually on data breaches of patient information, according to the latest benchmark study by Ponemon Institute. Protecting patient data is a low priority, the study concludes.
Electronic commerce systems must deliver coherence across programs and retail-level efficiency to consumers, say government planners.
University of Utah Health Care, recently rated the top U.S. academic medical center by the University HealthSystem Consortium, has installed TransferCenter software, from Pittsburgh-base TeleTracking, to speed patient transfers and provide specialty care more quickly to those who need it most.
Mercy Memorial Hospital System, a 238-bed community hospital in metropolitan Detroit, selected Allscripts as its enterprise-wide health information technology provider, enabling the hospital, its 200 staff physicians, and post-acute care providers to connect and collaborate for a team approach to improving patient care.
Now that the midterm elections are over, federal healthcare IT funding is likely to go untouched for now, one expert says.
The ConJoin Group, an IT and business process outsourcing (BPO) company, has acquired PHNS, a provider of healthcare IT and BPO services for $250M.
Agency will be ready to start meaningful use registration, attestation and payment systems by January, says CIO.
Veterans Affairs capitalizes on its stable patient population and healthcare mission to strengthen U.S. disease tracking.
GE Healthcare and the Medical College of Wisconsin have announced a collaboration on ultra-high field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to study early neurological and psychiatric disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease and bipolar disorder, and to develop new brain imaging techniques for detecting disease before clinical symptoms are evident.
A registry of healthcare information on patients with mild to moderate chronic kidney disease could help physicians improve care for patients, according to a new study in Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN).