New Mexico Software, Inc.,has announced that Miners' Colfax Medical Center in Raton, New Mexico has enrolled in the clinical telemedicine services provided through its Net Medical Xpress Specialist Program.

CompuMed, Inc. has announced it will offer GE Healthcare's powerful and compact ECG platform, the MAC 800® as part of a new, next generation telemedicine enhanced electrocardiogram (ECG ) system. CardioGram System 907 is the latest evolution of CardioGram technology and combines data communications and telemedicine services to allow clinicians the ability to instantly access cardiologists for immediate ECG over-reads and tele-consulting. 

Innovative healthcare providers are using telemedicine to move care beyond the hospital and increase inter-professional collaboration and education, in order to provide quality patient care closer to home. Join Dr. Ed Brown, CEO of the Ontario Telemedicine Network, to learn how one the world’s largest telemedicine networks has moved beyond simply facilitating telemedicine activity between providers and patients to a more strategic and comprehensive role as a catalyst for systemic change in the delivery of healthcare and education.

On Thursday, April 26, mHIMSS will tackle the issues head-on in a daylong virtual forum. “The Future of Mobile Technologies and mHealth: Staying Securely Connected” will run from 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. ET and include several education sessions and an interactive exhibit hall.

True to its Greek prefix meaning “distance,” the telehealth concept has come a long way in serving as a legitimate platform for virtual patient care. New technologies, applications and approaches are facilitating the category’s growth as healthcare providers search for IT systems with the broadest capabilities.

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has announced it will launch a telemedicine pilot program, dedicated to providing pediatric specialty consultations to community hospitals, with help from a $100,000 grant from the Verizon Foundation.

With Minnesota's GOP caucus set for Feb. 7, we spoke to the North Star State's health IT honcho about public-private partnerships, electronic health records, health information exchange, telehealth and more. Often billed as the healthiest state in the U.S., Minnesota has long been a healthcare IT leader.

MMRGlobal, Inc. (OTCBB: MMRF) ("MMR"), a leading provider of Personal Health Records (PHRs), MyEsafeDepositBox storage solutions and electronic document management and imaging systems for healthcare professionals, today announced that at the 2012 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference & Exhibition in Las Vegas, February 20-24, the Company will showcase a certified Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system that connects to its patented Personal Health Record products and services. Exhibiting in booth #2062, the Company will also be selling its complete line-up of patented health IT products and services, including its MyMedicalRecords PHR (www.mmrvideos.com) and MMRPro (www.mmrprovideos.com) document management and imaging system for healthcare professionals driven by Kodak and Fujitsu network scanning solutions.

This is the next post in my series of Dos and Don’ts Healthcare IT. As we all know, some of our most important citizens live in rural settings, small cities, the countryside, or remote areas. In the past 15 years or so we’ve made some great strides in remotely accessible healthcare.