December 12, 2011
Medidata Solutions (NASDAQ: MDSO), a leading global provider of SaaS-based clinical development solutions, today announced that it has expanded its accreditation program for services partners to include seven additional Medidata products, in response to the increasing global demand for its product portfolio. The accreditations are available through the Medidata Partner Program, which selects and enables leading contract research organizations (CROs) and other service providers to manage sponsors’ clinical trials using Medidata products.
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December 07, 2011
CPSI, Cerner, GE Healthcare and Picis emerged as the vendors whose inpatient EHRs are most favored by customers in a four-month user poll conducted by Black Book Rankings.
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December 05, 2011
In August, Healthcare IT News showed how Montefiore Medical Center, in the Bronx, has been providing quality care for decades, thanks to a clinical analytics system that could serve as a model for other healthcare systems across the country.
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December 05, 2011
“There has never been a better time to be innovating in health and wellness,” said Steve Krein, CEO of StartUp Health, when the company was announced at the Health Data Initiative Forum held in New York this past summer.
December 05, 2011
Medidata Solutions (NASDAQ: MDSO), a leading global provider of SaaS-based clinical development solutions, today announced that Medidata Insights™ has been named the gold winner in this year’s Techie Awards healthcare category. The Techie Awards honor companies and organizations, at all stages of development that are paving a path with an innovative technology product.
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November 15, 2011
PwC's Health Research Institute has named its top 10 issues facing healthcare in the coming year. Health informatics, privacy and security, new reporting requirements and social media, among others, promise to be at the fore.
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November 10, 2011
As 56 U.S. states, territories and the District of Columbia inch toward a 2015 deadline for creating health information exchanges, those on the front lines of the effort are expressing concern about whether these systems will be able to talk to their counterparts in other regions.
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November 10, 2011
Dell on Thursday launched a cloud computing technology to support pediatric cancer research programs, including what's billed as the world's first personalized medicine trial for pediatric cancer, conducted by the Neuroblastoma and Medulloblastoma Translational Research Consortium (NMTRC) and supported by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen).
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November 09, 2011
A new Commonwealth Fund international survey finds that chronically and seriously ill adults who received care from a medical home were less likely to report medical errors, test duplication and other care coordination failures.
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November 07, 2011
HMS Holdings Corp. announced Monday it will acquire privately held HealthDataInsights, which identifies and recoups improper payments for health plans and government payers, for approximately $400 million.
November 07, 2011
Healthcare continues to be patient as we continue to shift from paper to paperless activities. And as we have seen through the various stimulus activities, regional extension centers have been given the arduous task to help execute these various initiatives.
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November 03, 2011
When you're one of the largest and most profitable companies in the world, you can afford to make big statements – pitting big money and big know-how against big problems.
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November 02, 2011
Three organizations are receiving grants of up to $1 million apiece to help expand the nation’s network of telehealth resource centers.
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October 31, 2011
The nursing community is embracing mobile health devices and social media tools at a high level, according to a new survey.
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October 24, 2011
Healthcare Information Xchange of New York (HIXNY) announced Friday it has connected its HIE with the cloud-based electronic health record from athenahealth.
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October 19, 2011
The first three quarters of 2011 mergers and acquisitions volume is down 6 percent compared with transactions in 2010, according to a report investment bank Berkery Noyes released Oct. 17. The study also found transaction value increased by 245 percent in 2011 over 2010.
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October 18, 2011
The U.S. healthcare system scored 64 of a possible 100 on key measures of performance, according to the third national scorecard report from the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System. The report also reveals a poor score on measures of efficiency, showing relatively low use of electronic information systems and high administrative costs.
October 18, 2011
ImplementHIT announced today an agreement to provide OptimizeHIT, their patent-pending physician and clinician electronic health records (EHR) software training platform, to CapitalCare Medical Group. All 110 providers and hundreds of clinical and support staff at CapitalCare’s 27 sites will use this online learning software platform to enable EHR clinical adoption and meaningful use. ImplementHIT is the developer of sophisticated, customized education products and services that are driving organization-wide EHR adoption.
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October 05, 2011
Verizon and Duke University will jointly develop health information technology initiatives that both partners say will change the way healthcare is delivered.
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October 05, 2011
The New York-based telehealth company announced its launch this morning, with plans to roll out a nationwide network by the end of the year.
