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| GE Healthcare teams with Olympic Movement | ||||
| GE’s $17 billion healthcare business, GE Healthcare, has begun working with medical leaders in the Olympic Movement to advance the use of innovative medical imaging technologies to provide insight into athlete health, as well as benefits for the general public, according to a Fox Business report. GE Healthcare will deliver an array of medical technologies, including magnetic resonance imaging, ultrasound and electrocardiogram to the Olympic Village General Hospital. Read More | ||||
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| 18 more EHRs receive CCHIT certification | ||||
| The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology recently certified specific versions of 18 more ambulatory electronic health records systems under 2007 certification criteria. A number of these products received pre-market conditional certification, so they will be fully certified once use at a physician office is verified. Read More | ||||
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| CBaySystems targets docs with hosted apps | ||||
| Annapolis, Md.-based CBaySystems has rolled out a Web-based, remotely hosted practice management, EHR and transcription application for small and medium sized physician practices. The vendor is marketing the service under the name Kyps. Read More | ||||
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| Study: Docs wary of EHR usage | ||||
| A new survey released by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons drawing on input from more than 400 doctors claims that physicians are resisting the use of EHRs because they fear the data will be used to control “what they do and how they do it.” Read More | ||||
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| Europe targets EHR interoperability by 2015 | ||||
| Europe is hoping to achieve EHR interoperability by 2015. The news comes on the heels of a recent recommendation by the European Commission on cross-border interoperability, an initiative which mimics work underway in the United States to create a nationwide health information network for sharing medical information throughout the country. Read More | ||||
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| 802.11n set to take off | ||||
| ABI Research is reporting that shipments of consumer-oriented 802.11n Wi-Fi access points are expected to see a significant increase over the next five years, rising from 6 million this year to 88 million by 2013. On the enterprise side, successful vendors will be those with well-established channels selling to the early-adopting vertical sectors of education, healthcare, retail and manufacturing. Read More | ||||
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| Worldwide Holter Monitoring Systems market set for high growth | ||||
| Reportlinker.com has issued a new market research report related to the medical devices industry analyzing the worldwide markets for Holter Monitoring Systems in millions of U.S. dollars. The report serves up separate comprehensive analytics for the U.S., Canada, Japan, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and Rest of World. Annual forecasts are supplied for each region for the period of 2001 through 2015. Read More | ||||
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| Health First Europe to EU: don’t delay eHealth | ||||
| Health First Europe is reaching out to the European Union to facilitate the development and integration of eHealth into the provision of day-to-day healthcare services. The news arrives on the eve of the Commission’s highly anticipated recommendation on interoperability. Read More | ||||
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| Three healthcare providers pick EncounterPRO EHR | ||||
| Atlanta-based EncounterPRO Healthcare Resources, a wholly owned subsidiary of WiFiMed Holdings Company, has signed three new clients—Lafayette Pediatric Clinic in Oxford, Miss.; Faugot Pediatrics in Iberia, La., and the Pediatric and Adolescent Center in Lewes, Del. The healthcare providers opted for the EncounterPRO EHR to document patient encounters and to facilitate office operations. Read More | ||||
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| University of Utah locates stolen data tapes | ||||
| The Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Office recently confirmed that the stolen tapes containing roughly 1.5 million health care billing records for University of Utah patients have been recovered. Officials declined to state whether the tapes—which contain billing data, Social Security numbers and medical procedure codes dating back to 1992—had been accessed by the data thieves. Read More | ||||
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