May 03, 2013
Cambridge Health Alliance and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center inked an agreement Thursday to form a clinical and academic affiliation with the aim of enhancing care provided by both institutions.
May 03, 2013
Patient Privacy Rights announced Friday the appointment of Adrian Gropper, MD as its first chief technology officer. Gropper has worked with federal initiatives and the Markle Foundation to help create the Direct Project's secure email system and Blue Button technologies.
May 02, 2013
Harvard Medical School has licensed big data analytics technology from GNS Healthcare in a bid to better understand signaling and transcriptional events in biological systems.
April 17, 2013
CIOs from three of Boston's elite hospitals discuss the role health information technology has played in responding to the two-part bombing that stopped the Boston Marathon in its tracks on April 15. The horrific tragedy sent hundreds of gravely wounded runners and bystanders to hospitals, where communication and coordination proved critical to ensuring top patient care.
April 03, 2013
For 15 years, Congress has bestowed special privileges to some small remote hospitals, usually in rural areas, to help them stay afloat. Medicare pays them more than it pays most hospitals and exempts them from financial pressure to operate efficiently and requirements to reveal how their patients fare. Nearly one in four hospitals qualifies for the program. Despite these benefits, there's new evidence that the quality of many of these hospitals may be deteriorating.
March 29, 2013
Omada Health, a start-up company based in San Francisco, has launched its flagship online product, called Prevent, which is aimed at tackling diabetes, a disease that affects 43 percent of Americans and, according to the American Diabetes Association, cost America $245 billion last year.
February 14, 2013
Since its launch in 2011, Rock Health has made its mark in the healthcare field by ushering a number of innovative ideas from the drawing board to the marketplace. The digital health startup incubator has been a fixture at the past two mHealth Summits, and is part of the reason that funding for digital health companies jumped some 45 percent in the past year.
January 30, 2013
Healthcare's clinical community should view population health as a frontier for deepening understanding about the nature of disease, providing incisive clues about patient demographics, behavior patterns and physiological makeup. Large group samples hold the potential to unlock mysteries that physicians may not even realize exist, says Jonathan Teich, MD, chief medical information officer for Amsterdam-based Elsevier.
January 14, 2013
TEDMED, www.TEDMED.com, the annual multi-disciplinary gathering where leaders from all sectors of society come together to explore the promise of technology and potential of human achievement in health and medicine, has announced the first 10 of its speakers and two new collaboration and innovation initiatives for 2013.
January 01, 2013
ACOs are an idea whose time has come, according to Gene Lindsey, MD, president and CEO of Newton, Mass.-based Atrius Health.
January 01, 2013
Healthcare IT News has selected six up-and-coming health IT gurus who have made a name for themselves in the industry -- all before their 30th birthday. These six best and brightest show that in health IT, wisdom has little to do with age.
January 01, 2013
An infusion of cash from Partners HealthCare is set to spur a promising 2013 for Healthrageous, whose health self-management technology traces its roots to Partners' Center for Connected Health.
November 29, 2012
Today MedAptus announced that physicians at Ophthalmic Consultants of Boston (OCB) have adopted the company's Professional Charge Capture (Pro) solution. OCB providers utilize MedAptus for coding and billing activities stemming from outpatient care delivery across their office and ambulatory surgical center locations in Massachusetts.
November 27, 2012
Healthrageous, which develops technology for health self-management, has received $700,000 in Series B financing from the Partners HealthCare Innovation Fund -- close on the heels of a $6.5 million round of financing from other investors in October. The new cash comes as the platform is seeing tangible results in hypertension improvement.
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November 06, 2012
Seems like everything is "smart" nowadays. Smartphones. Smart TVs. Smart cars. For something to simply exist and perform its intended purpose is no longer enough; now everything must be technologically-advanced enough to all but think for itself.
November 06, 2012
EXL Landa will host its annual 2012 Healthcare Symposium at The Westin Georgetown in Washington, D.C., November 14-16.
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November 06, 2012
Like most smart health IT vendors, McKesson is preparing for a brave new world of value-based care. Toward that end, the healthcare giant made a couple of strategic acquisitions just a week apart earlier this fall.
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August 28, 2012
Healthcare insurer Aetna has created Aetna Innovation Labs to focus on ways to improve patient outcomes by leveraging data and best practices.
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August 23, 2012
Sue Schade has been named chief information officer of University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers, after 12 years as CIO of Harvard Medical School teaching affiliate Brigham and Women's Hospital, which is part of Partners HealthCare.
August 07, 2012
HIMSS, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, and Healthcare IT News, the industry’s leading news source for health IT, have partnered to present The Privacy & Security Forum. The event will bring together CIOs and IT executives for a day-and-a- half of collaboration, networking and presentations by leading health IT professionals, industry thought leaders and key government officials.
