PedsPal, Cook Children’s Health Care System’s physician group’s purchasing program, has collaborated with athenahealth, Microsoft, Sanofi Pasteur, and Merck, as well as its physician members, to establish the nation’s first use of 2D barcodes on vaccines. Cook Children’s will demonstrate the new 2D barcoding technology at the upcoming American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) National Conference [...]
Cook Children’s Health Care System and athenahealth Announce Nation’s First 2D Barcode System for Vaccines
October 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Microsoft Announces a Fairly Simple Transfer of Health Data From Google Health to Microsoft HealthVault
July 18, 2011 By 1 Comment
Microsoft Corp. today announced that people using the Google Health service, scheduled to be discontinued Jan. 1, 2012, can easily transfer their personal health information stored in a Google Health profile to a Microsoft HealthVault account using the Direct Project messaging protocols established by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. The Direct [...]
Krames StayWell to Implement Direct Project Security Protocols in Collaboration with Microsoft HealthVault
July 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Krames StayWell has announced that it is helping to enable the ONC’s Direct Project messaging standards for its award-winning patient education system, Krames On-Demand. Leveraging the Direct Project encrypted e-mail functionality supported by Microsoft HealthVault, health systems will be utilizing Krames On-Demand to engage patients in their care by sending consumer-friendly education resources that can be stored in [...]
Health Systems Choose Microsoft HealthVault Community Connect to Improve Care Coordination, Engage Patients and Families
February 8, 2011 By 1 Comment
Brooks Rehabilitation, Mason General Hospital, Steward Health Care System and PeaceHealth St. Joseph Health Center are among the health systems implementing Microsoft HealthVault Community Connect to improve care coordination and engage patients and families in managing their own health, Microsoft Corp. announced today. The company also said it has developed a sales and services channel [...]
Microsoft Delivers Online Encrypted E-mail Using Direct Project Security Protocols using MS HealthVault
February 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
During a Health & Human Services event in D.C. today, Microsoft Corp. announced new encrypted e-mail functionality for Microsoft HealthVault, which allows clinical partner solutions to send messages to patients based on security protocols set forth by the Office of the National Coordinator’s (ONC’s) Direct Project. Through this offering, every HealthVault record will be able [...]
KLAS Report: Nine Out of Ten Providers Report Interest in Implementing a Personal Health Record
December 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Implementing a personal health record (PHR) is a priority for more healthcare organizations than expected. Close to 90 percent of interviewed providers are actively planning for or piloting a PHR solution, according to a new KLAS report. For “Personal Health Records (PHRs): Strategies Take Shape”, KLAS discussed PHRs with 120 acute-care organizations representing over 750 [...]
Norton Healthcare Enters into Agreement with Microsoft to Use its Health Solutions Platforms
December 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Image via Wikipedia Norton Healthcare has entered into an agreement with Microsoft Corp. to use its health solutions platforms, Microsoft Amalga Unified Intelligence System (UIS) and Microsoft HealthVault. These systems will allow Norton Healthcare to aggregate and mine data in a highly efficient manner and will assist the Louisville, Ky.-based health care system in its [...]
Announcing the Winner of the Practice Fusion Healthcare API Challenge
October 7, 2010 By 6 Comments
The winner of the Practice Fusion API Challenge is demoing live today on the Health 2.0 Conference main stage. The team of three engineers from Critical Systems (CritSys), an Ohio-based IT consultant company, was selected from over 30 entries for their standout work in creating an innovative, affordable solution connecting patient-reported data to Practice Fusion’s [...]
Concentra selects MIE for EHR
May 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Concentra, a provider of employer health care services, has announced that it will utilize Medical Informatics Engineering or MIE’s electronic health records or EHR and employee health portal services. The company said WebChart offers a suite of health information products that helps it to support its service delivery model, allowing for each implementation to accommodate [...]
Concentra Utilizes Medical Informatics Engineering to Implement EHR
May 11, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Concentra, a leading provider of employer health care services, announced today that it will utilize Medical Informatics Engineering (MIE) to bring electronic health records (EHR) and employee health portal services to Concentra clients through its worksite health centers. As more companies seek ways to control rising health care costs and improve the health and wellness [...]
