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HealthPartners, the nation's largest consumer-governed, nonprofit healthcare organization, has launched virtuwell. The healthcare insurer describes it as "a new convenience care service offering online diagnosis and treatment of simple medical conditions."
Surescripts is expanding its nationwide e-prescribing network with a new service that will allow for the exchange of clinical health information, officials announced Monday at the MGMA 2010 annual conference in New Orleans.
Two industry experts share their list of best practices for implementing electronic health records in hospitals and medical groups.
The Massachusetts eHealth Institute expects 600 physicians and small practices will be signed up by the end of October for health IT consulting services, which it is offering as one of 60 regional extension centers (RECS) now courting health IT newcomers throughout the country.
Medical offices owned by hospitals and health systems are the leaders in adopting electronic health record technology, according to the latest results of an ongoing survey released Monday by SK&A, a healthcare information solutions and research provider.
Medical practices that have implemented an electronic health record system report better financial performance than those that have not, according to the Medical Group Management Association's newly released "Electronic Health Records Impacts on Revenue, Costs, and Staffing: 2010 Report Based on 2009 Data."
With its investment in CardioNexus Corporation, a portfolio company of Houston's Fairway Medical Technologies, Panasonic Corporation of North America has signaled its plans to become a player in the increasingly important field of personalized preventive medicine.
Rigorous performance measurement and evaluation - best accomplished with an electronic health record system - will be critical to the success of accountable care organizations, according to industry experts.
Add this to the perils of healthcare leadership - more information might make you dumber. That's the warning Malcolm Gladwell offered Sunday night in his keynote address to approximately 4,500 attendees at the MGMA 2010 annual conference, which kicked off at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans.
In a move that will broaden its reach in the hospital communications market – and, ideally, save lives – Vocera, which develops point of care communications solutions, has acquired two companies, Clinical Health Communications and Integrated Voice Solutions.