‘Health Care’ Archives
GE Healthcare Unveils Future of Healthcare IT at HIMSS10
Atlanta Meeting Sees Debut of Clinical Knowledge Platform, eHealth Business ATLANTA, Feb 28, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- This week in Atlanta, healthymagination takes center stage as GE Healthcare uses its technology expo to demonstrate how it will affect cost, quality and access in healthcare systems across the world. At the [...]
Eclipsys and Microsoft Form Strategic Alliance to Make Enterprise Health IT More Open and Powerful
ATLANTA and REDMOND, Wash., Feb. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Eclipsys Corp.® (Nasdaq: ECLP) and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) today announced they have signed an alliance agreement to deliver the choice and flexibility that hospitals need and want to improve health information technology (HIT) efficiencies. Breaking with the tradition of [...]
Estimates of Electronic Medical Records in U.S. Emergency Departments
A Harvard study reported that 46% of hospital Emergency Departments adopted EHRs. With Electronic Medical Record (EMRs) are becoming more prevalent in US EDs, though only a minority use EMRs in a “meaningful” way, no matter how “meaningful” is defined. This study looks at the applications of EMR's across the US. The research discusses [...]
Eclipsys Announces Fourth-Quarter and Year-End 2009 Results
ATLANTA, Feb 18, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Eclipsys Corporation(R) (ECLP 17.48, +0.51, +3.01%) , The Outcomes Company(R), today announced results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2009. Revenues for the quarter ended December 31, 2009 were $133.7 million, compared to revenues of [...]
Microsoft e-health research taps Xbox, mobile phones
IDG News Service - Microsoft is researching how gadgets like the company's Xbox game machine, surface computers and accelerometers in mobile phones could be used to improve health care. Some of the applications from Microsoft Research, the software giant's lab branch, plug into existing Microsoft products like HealthVault, a Web service for [...]
MEDSEEK Reports Most Profitable Year Ever With Record Sales and Delivery Figures in 2009
Birmingham, Ala. – February 2, 2010 – MEDSEEK, the leading provider of healthcare enterprise portal connectivity solutions, today announced the acquisition of 58 new hospital clients and a 53 percent increase in one-year revenue backlog, as healthcare industry changes fuel demand for its eHealth solutions. MEDSEEK’s fiscal year revenue [...]
Electronic Health Records Need Better Monitoring, Experts Urge
ScienceDaily (Feb. 4, 2010) — The push is on for healthcare providers to make the switch to electronic health records but it is hard to tell how well these complex health information technology systems are being implemented and used, writes a health informatics researcher at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston in a Feb. 3 [...]
Health Care Technology M&A Activity
Spheris Reaches Agreement To Be Acquired By Medquist and Cbay FRANKLIN, Tenn. — February 03, 2010 — Spheris, a leading global provider of clinical documentation technology and services, today announced that it has entered into an agreement under which MedQuist Inc. and CBay Inc., portfolio companies of CBaySystems Holdings Ltd. and leading [...]
IQMax Mobile Healthcare Applications & Enterprise Solutions
IQMax mobile healthcare applications and enterprise solutions, located in Charlotte, NC. feature a common interface that allows you to "plug in" multiple mobile software applications such as dictation, charge capture, clinical results (labs), prescription, and formulary, to a robust enterprise framework. Our mobile solutions allow you to add, [...]
First AMA-IEEE Medical Technology Conference on Individualized Health Care
The American Medical Association (AMA) and the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology (EMB) Society invite you to participate in the First AMA-IEEE Conference on Medical Technology devoted to Individualized Healthcare. Individualized Healthcare is a broad term that encompasses what is known as personalized medicine based on [...]
Health Care Technology M&A Activity
HMS Acquires MEDHOST NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HealthTech Holdings, Inc. (HHI), a healthcare technology holding company and parent of Healthcare Management Systems Inc. ® (HMS), announced today that it has acquired MEDHOST, the leading provider of emergency department information systems. The [...]
