Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)
By offering its members a patient portal through clearinghouse provider Office Ally, Blue Shield of California is hoping for greater adoption of the tool.
A survey sponsored by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and Dell has found that the data centers of small and medium-sized hospitals in North America, Europe, and China are not prepared for the "wave of data" that will soon be inundating them.
Three more hospitals have been recognized for attaining Stage 7, the highest level on the HIMSS Analytics Adoption Model.
The Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) North America Connectathon, in its 11th year, is showing how to get interoperability done right.
Competition and lost revenue are keeping communities from participating in health information exchanges, panelists told attendees at the Regional Healthcare Stimulus Exchange Conference.
MedApps, Inc., a provider of mHealth technology, is launching a new remote monitoring pilot aimed at chronic disease management for patients with Congestive Heart Failure.
Electronic health record vendor Epic has just released Haiku, an iPhone application that provides authorized users with secure access to schedules, patient lists, health summaries, test results and notes.
St. Luke's Lakeside Hospital, based in The Woodlands, Texas, has launched a series of new diagnostic technology at its newly-built surgical hospital.
A Missouri-based health center is looking to expand the patient-centered medical home concept to more than 30,000 uninsured and underinsured residents in the state through a deal with NextGen Healthcare Information Systems.
Officials at Practice Fusion, a San Francisco-based provider of free electronic health record software, announced Wednesday that the company has launched a free e-prescribing system for physicians.
