In two complementary agreements, Orion Health and Microsoft Corp. have joined efforts to address the eHealth needs of care delivery systems worldwide. In Asia Pacific, wholly owned subsidiary Orion Health Asia Pacific has signed an agreement to purchase Microsoft’s Hospital Information System (HIS) software assets, including RIS/PACS, previously known as Amalga HIS. In addition, the [...]
Orion Health Announces Asia Pacific Acquisition and International Collaboration with Microsoft
October 17, 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 [...]
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 [...]
There’s an App for That: PHRs and the Wii Generation
August 11, 2010 By 1 Comment
The following is a guest post by Carole Hodsdon, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of MEDecision, a leading provider of collaborative healthcare management solutions. It seems as if we’re inching ever closer to a wide-scale proliferation of electronic health records (EHRs). The much talked about American Recovery and Reinvestment Act contained major incentives [...]
Bill Gates Named Keynote Speaker at the 2010 mHealth Summit
August 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Bill Gates, Co-Chair and Trustee of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will provide a keynote address on the opportunity of mobile technologies to improve health outcomes in the developing world at the 2010 mHealth Summit, the summit organizers announced today. The summit, organized by the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health in partnership with [...]
New Tool from 3M Helps Healthcare Organizations Comply with Regulations for Breach Notification
June 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment
New breach reporting guidelines require healthcare providers, health plans, and healthcare clearinghouses to promptly notify affected individuals when their health information is breached. To help comply with the new regulations, 3M Health Information SystemsHealth Information Systems has released a breach notification tool available with new versions of 3M™ ChartRelease™ Software and 3M™ DisclosureTrac™ Software. The new functionality provides a [...]
gloStream Announces Money Back EMR/EHR Stimulus Guarantee
March 30, 2010 By Leave a Comment
gloStream, maker of gloEMR and gloPM – the only electronic medical record software and practice management applications with Microsoft® Office built right in – today announced the gloDNA 100% Stimulus Guarantee. This program ensures that any qualified Doctor who installs and uses gloStream software properly will be able to demonstrate meaningful use and therefore be [...]
Greenway Medical Technologies Advances Patient-Provider Benefits
March 2, 2010 By 1 Comment
Greenway Medical Technologies, provider of the fully-integrated electronic health record (EHR), practice management and interoperability solution PrimeSuite®, is demonstrating a seamless data transfer solution from its flagship EHR into Microsoft HealthVault, an online personal health management platform. The demonstration, titled “Greenway and HealthVault: Secure, Centralized and Accessible Health,” is scheduled for Wednesday, March 3 at [...]
OakBend Medical Center Gains Clinical and Financial Efficiencies with McKesson EHR
February 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment
McKesson announced today that OakBend Medical Center of Richmond, Texas, has successfully implemented McKesson’s Paragon® hospital information system (HIS) to capture health information electronically as patients receive care in the hospital. Additionally, OakBend deployed AcuDose-Rx® medication dispensing cabinets at its expanded campus to provide nurses with access to the medications they need, when they need [...]
athenahealth Named to Fast Company Magazine’s “Fast 50″ List of World’s Most Innovative Companies
February 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment
athenahealth, Inc. , a leading provider of internet-based business services to physician practices, today announced it has been named to Fast Company Magazine’s “Fast 50″ list of the world’s most innovative companies. athenahealth was one of only three healthcare companies to be named among “The Fast 50.” The company was recognized for helping to modernize [...]
