Saturday - June 20, 2009
The prescription drugs you take are on the minds of a lot of people: judges on two federal courts, legislators in several states, countless doctors and, at the center, the companies that make money by figuring out who's prescribing what. Data-mining firms -- which gather electronic information on the drugs prescribers order for their patients, then sell that information to pharmaceutical companies -- have sued to block laws restricting their activities in New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont.
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Tuesday - June 16, 2009
General Electric's healthcare division said Monday it will offer financing to doctors and hospitals that buy GE's electronic medical records equipment in an effort to cover an expected lag in the flow of federal stimulus money meant for the medical technology.
GE Healthcare will make $100 million available to potential buyers of GE's equipment that computerizes paper patient medical records.
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Wednesday - April 29, 2009
Weeks before the CDC and WHO alerted the public to a growing number of swine flu cases, a startup based in Seattle's suburbs already had a hunch something was up. Veratect, a 2-year-old company with fewer than 50 employees, combines computer algorithms with human analysts to monitor online and offline sources for hints of disease outbreaks and civil unrest worldwide.
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Tuesday - April 21, 2009
The Mayo Clinic has combined its medical expertise with Microsoft's technology in a free Web site launching Tuesday that will let people store personal health and medical information. The "Mayo Clinic Health Manager," as the site is called, is one of many emerging services for so-called personal health records.
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Monday - April 20, 2009
President Barack Obama has rounded out his panel of high-tech advisors, naming Aneesh Chopra, the state of Virginia's secretary of technology, as the chief technology officer of the U.S. While not having the heft of a cabinet-level appointment, the newly created position is still seen as pivotal to many of the Obama administration's initiatives.
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Monday - April 6, 2009
Dell on Monday made a slew of announcements that considerably beefed up its offerings for the healthcare IT industry. These include a mobile clinical computing solution, virtualized systems, cloud-leveraging solutions and partnerships with several other vendors. The computer maker is also teaming up with retailer Sam's Club.
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Wednesday - April 1, 2009
Open source healthcare IT solutions are just beginning to become acceptable alternatives to proprietary software systems. As is happening in other fields, open source medical projects are getting noticed as cost-saving alternatives to proprietary vendors. The battle for supremacy between the two marketing strategies may gain national political attention.
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Tuesday - March 24, 2009
Oracle has acquired Relsys, a small private company that makes drug safety analytics software for the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. The terms of the deal were not revealed. Relsys will continue to operate independently until the deal closes, which is expected to take place by this summer.
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Monday - March 2, 2009
When patients go to the doctor these days, the first thing they're given is a clipboard with forms that have to be filled out in triplicate. Troy Spracklin wants to change that. The president and CEO of Edge Health Solutions just signed a multimillion dollar deal to integrate AllScripts' electronic health record software into Edge Health's suite of practice management applications.
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Friday - February 13, 2009
It should come as no surprise that Maurice Ramirez -- an emergency room attending physician with Florida Hospital's Flagler division -- is in favor of widespread adoption of automated personal health records, or PHRs. Ramirez was once chief medical officer for a company that was developing such an application, but that's not his only reference point.
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Thursday - February 5, 2009
It's not "Star Trek" and Dr. "Bones" McCoy's tricorder sensor, but it is one step closer to where no medical patient has gone before; the ability to stream his or her vital signs from a health monitoring device to a computer, thanks to a partnership announced Thursday by IBM and Google. IBM's new software will work with Google Health, the search giant's free online medical record database announced last summer.
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