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A managed care health insurer wants to help regional health IT extension centers with their support of small physician practices that it fears could fly under the radar.
Standards organization Health Level Seven International is urging the United States to move full speed ahead with its programs for the voluntary certification of health information technology - with what the group calls "reasonable and important modifications."
Organizers at the 2010 Med-e-Tel conference believe that the confluence of mobile technology and healthcare – mHealth – could have as profound an effect on medicine as the stethoscope.
A trust framework for health information exchange will help spur use of nationwide health information network, panel says.
Consortium leading a $30 million telehealth project taps AT&T to connect hundreds of state health providers.
A new hospital recently opened in Botswana is being touted as a paperless hospital "without borders."
Helping Medicaid providers become HIT meaningful users is how AmeriHealth Mercy plans to keep the practices in its network.
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has received nearly $8 million in federal stimulus money from the Ohio Health Information Partnership, funding that will position the school as a regional extension center (REC) to help 1,765 providers in the state advance their use of health IT.
A consortium leading a $30 million telehealth project in California has tapped AT&T to connect hundreds of healthcare providers throughout the state.
Revenues from remote patient monitoring using mobile networks will rise to almost $1.9 billion globally by 2014, according to Juniper Research.