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By Bernie Monegain | 10:39 am | September 01, 2010
Maine's HealthInfoNet, the statewide health information exchange, has selected Santa Monica, Calif.-based Orion Health as its primary technology provider to help the HIE expand.
By Mary Mosquera | 06:12 pm | August 31, 2010
Announcement follows recent moves by Veterans Affairs and Medicare to launch 'blue button' apps for their beneficiaries.
By Molly Merrill | 05:47 pm | August 31, 2010
Forty-six organizations have showed their support for the Markle Foundation's recommendations for privacy and security practices for the "blue button," which would allow patients to have instant access to their healthcare records.
By Kyle Hardy | 04:57 pm | August 31, 2010
Telehealth Solutions has been chosen for the national framework agreement to provide telehealth, telecare and telecoaching technology to the entire UK public sector by Buying Solutions - the UK's official procurement partner.
By Mary Mosquera | 04:21 pm | August 31, 2010
Policymakers streamlining standards-making for new forms of nationwide health information exchange.
By Molly Merrill | 11:57 am | August 31, 2010
The not-for-profit Sutter Health network, in Sacramento, Calif., is helping its patients connect not only with its resources, but also with doctors, clinics and ERs nationwide, using a free application that they can download on their smartphones.
By Molly Merrill | 10:47 am | August 31, 2010
The Pediatric Heart Transplant Program at NewYork-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital is launching a one-year program that will use a text messaging platform to increase medication adherence in its teenage heart transplant patients.
By Mary Mosquera | 06:36 pm | August 30, 2010
EHR vendors can now begin to apply to have their products certified as capable of delivering meaningful use outcomes, Blumenthal says.
By Peter Buxbaum | 06:00 pm | August 30, 2010
The VA looks to their own for innovative ideas on making existing health IT systems deliver better care to veterans.
By John Moore | 05:57 pm | August 30, 2010
Healthcare agencies across the government spectrum are turning to dashboards to show constituents exactly where they stand in community health performance.