Computerworld - The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has dispensed more than $7.7B in reimbursement payments to more than 307,000 healthcare professionals and 4,000 hospitals deploying electronic health records (EHRs). ...
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Windows 8 might, or might not, prove to be a big hit with enterprise customers. But SAP is betting it will become an important platform in workplaces and figures Windows 8 tablets will outpace Android tablets, an SAP executive said ...
Health care provider Kaiser Permanente has begun hiring about 500 IT professionals to staff its new information technology campus in Englewood, Colo. Kaiser, which says it employs about 6,000 IT workers nationwide, said the Englewood ...
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COLUMBUS, OH, December 18, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Big data may not be a term often discussed outside the CIO's office today, but according to experts at ICC, a leader in business technology services with a focus on big data and ...
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Leader of on-demand secure printing solutions forms healthcare division to specialize in health compliance and security solutions. TROY Group, Inc., a worldwide leader in secure on-demand MICR printing systems, announced the creation of a ...
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The winners of a free software app created at the first NHS Hack Day claim their product could save the NHS £3m per year in lost time. The browser-based Patient List system is intended to reduce the number of mistakes made in care ...
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People will spend more than £1,200 to buy their own devices, which questions the need for IT departments to continue purchasing and supporting desktop and laptop PCs. In a recent study by analyst Forrester, 33% of respondents ...
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IDG News Service - Oracle did the right thing this week when it pledged to resume porting its software to Hewlett-Packard's Itanium-based servers, but it should never have pulled that support from a critical platform as it did in March ...
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Timeless Medical Systems is pleased to announce the release of FormulaTrak , the newest innovation in tracking and tracing infant feedings in the hospital setting. The Timeless Medical Women & Infants FormulaTrak system is the first and ...
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The University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB) NHS Foundation Trust was overloaded with case notes and referrals in paper form, resulting in misplacements of documents and unnecessary retesting of patients due to lost results. It decided to ...
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Some 97% of GPs in the UK claim to use electronic medical records, according to the 2012 Commonwealth International Health Policy survey. The survey of nearly 8,500 primary care doctors across the world found that the UK came top in its ...
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IOS Health Systems (IOS), a leading innovator of web-based ambulatory electronic health record (EHR) and practice management software, announces its web-based Medios EHR system is one of the first EHR's to successfully connect to the ...
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Mark Large, GOSH IT director, said: "Our clinicians told us that they want to use Apple technology, so it is something we are embracing, and have created one of the best infrastructures in the world to make it happen." "What is ...
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The Federal Communications Commission is planning to launch a variety of initiatives to spur the development and adoption of broadband-enabled healthcare devices and applications, with the overriding goal of establishing mobile health ...
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A "huge loophole" is being carved in the European Union's upcoming data protection regulation, according Ross Anderson, a professor of security engineering at the University of Cambridge in England. The way the current draft of the law ...
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