Telehealth
Three U.S. hospitals are now depending on a new trend in health IT to help them overcome a clinician shortage in rural areas: electronic intensive care units.
Intuit Inc., the Mountain View, Calif.-based provider of financial management solutions for small and mid-sized businesses, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Medfusion, of Cary, N.C., which makes front-office and back-office software designed to improve patient-to-provider communications.
Employer organization Dossia and Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic will integrate Mayo Clinic EmbodyHealth, a personal health management portal, with the Dossia Personal Health Platform. The integration makes the EmbodyHealth portal available to members of the Dossia network.
Outdated hospital communications systems - based on blaring PAs and multiple, often incompatible mobile devices - are causing confusion, reducing efficiency, wasting money and helping contribute to serious staffing shortages, a new white paper finds.
A new bill would require the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs to create an Internet-based portal for veterans to access their records and benefits.
Ozcare, a non-profit health and community services provider in Queensland, has launched a new system designed to improve care by sending alerts and other notifications to nurses carrying mobile devices.
The Internet has considerably more influence over consumer health decisions and actions than traditional channels like print, TV and radio, according to a new report from Manhattan Research.
Philips Telehealth Solutions has been chosen to provide telehealth monitors to SunCrest Healthcare, a Madison, Tenn.-based provider of home health, companion care, and therapy.
A new program that sends free health information directly to expectant and new moms' mobile phones was launched Thursday at the Health IT Summit for Government Leaders in Washington, D.C.
The Federal Communications Commission wants to foster the use of wireless devices and applications in healthcare as part of a national broadband plan the agency expects to release next month, according to a senior FCC official.
