The Commonwealth of Virginia has selected Aetna for provision of a health benefits plan option to its more than 200,000 eligible employees, retirees and family members, effective from 01 July. Dubbed COVA HealthAware, the ...
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BioClinica, a provider of clinical trial management services, has introduced an electronic data transfer solution. The WebSend solution is a medical image submission technology for collecting and managing medical images for clinical ...
The first wristband in 2011, while innovative, was a disaster. Bracelets bricked and there were reported incidents of batteries failing to recharge. It led to recalls and Jawbone returned to the drawing board. Now Jawbone has ...
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The U.S. healthcare industry is facing an even more significant IT worker shortage than previously thought, and that shortage is slowing efforts to roll out electronic health systems. A new analysis by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Health ...
Qualcomm has a big, well-funded research and development operation, but its program for commercializing innovations is still a learning experience for the wireless chip maker. Qualcomm Labs was set up about two-and-a-half years ago to ...
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Target Health and LifeOnKey have own Israel-United States Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation award to integrate the EMR with the electronic data capture (EDC) clinical trial database. The two-year award worth ...
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The Office of Information Technology at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has disputed a finding by the agency's Inspector General that several VA centers routinely transmit unencrypted sensitive personal data over the public ...
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Massachusetts-based Baycare Health Partners and Baystate Health have chosen InterSystems HealthShare as their strategic informatics platform for new regional health information exchange (HIE). Baycare Health Partners and Baystate Health ...
Former President Bill Clinton on Wednesday called for transparency in healthcare pricing and addressing chronic disease epidemics such as obesity in order to drive down the cost of care for all. He also called for embracing IT and letting ...
While electronic medical records (EMR) may contain your health information, most physicians think you should only be able to add information to them, not get access to all of their contents. A survey released this week at the HIMSS ...
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Companies with IT security strategies that focus mostly on complying with key standards are dangerously unprepared for emerging cyber threats, said security experts at the RSA Conference 2013 here this week. Over the past few years, the ...
Companies with IT security strategies that focus mostly on complying with key standards are dangerously unprepared for emerging cyber threats, said security experts. Over the past few years, the security strategies of many companies and ...
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ICSA Labs, an Authorized Certification Body (ACB) of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), has granted 2014 Edition Ambulatory and Inpatient EHR Module certification to LDM Group's ConnectSys 3.0 ...
eHealth Technologies and Client Outlook have announced the launch of a new web-based, zero footprint image viewing solution for eHealth Connect, a suite of solutions provided by eHealth Technologies. Using Client Outlooks' eUnity ...
US-based healthcare company Aetna has introduced a new business unit brand called Healthagen, which advances its provider collaboration and consumer empowerment strategy. Healthagen, which tackles the fundamental needs of greater value, ...
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