UnitedHealth Group has adopted new standards for healthcare ID cards across all its health plans. The cards will provide patient eligibility information and access to a personal health record, and process healthcare transactions.
Greek researchers have developed a new approach to working out heart attack risk using artificial intelligence.
In addition to the routine clinical work, Dr. Agarwal is involved in the Artificial Retinal Implant project, being carried out in collaboration with Texas Instruments, which aims at developing a complex artificial epiretinal device in patients with advanced retinitis pigmentosa and age-related macular degeneration, which will help these patients see again.
Medicare, the federal health insurance program for the elderly and disabled in the US, will offer financial bonuses to doctors who prescribe drugs electronically rather than on paper. Doctors who do not will face penalties from Medicare starting in 2012.
State Department, IBM build telehealth bridge to rural Pakistan A telemedicine project by the State Department, IBM, and other public […]
Clinicians of SingHealth, the largest healthcare group in Singapore, are now equipped with clinically relevant, evidence-based guidelines for ordering treatment protocols, while gaining secure access to an integrated EHR to obtain the latest patient information for more timely, more informed care decisions.
[This article was published in the December 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
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SCM Microsystems has announced its latest terminal for the German electronic health card programme: the eHealth500 mobile terminal.
Quest Diagnostics Incorporated, the world’s leading provider of diagnostic testing, information and services, today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary Quest Diagnostics India Pvt. Ltd. has received certificates of accreditation from the College of American Pathologists (CAP), a leading international laboratory accrediting organization, and the National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL), the sole government-authorized laboratory accreditation body in India, for its diagnostic and clinical trials laboratory in Gurgaon, India.
Health-care providers of all stripes face a host of technology challenges in the new year. Indeed, “the tea leaves are not settled at the bottom of the cup yet, but [providers] are already expected to budget for 2009, 2010 and beyond,” said Bob Booz, managing vice president for Gartner Research, at a kick-off town hall at Everything Channel’s Healthcare Summit in San Diego.
SecureCare Technologies, Inc., a health care information technology company based in Austin, Texas, has successfully launched Sfax(TM) as part of an integrated and automated faxing solution within Addison Health Systems’ WritePad(TM), an EMR (electronic medical record) system used to track patients, create exam notes and compile detailed patient reports.
Perot Systems will significantly bolster its health-care interests after acquiring Tellurian Networks, a managed services provider of electronic medical records (EMR) and practice management (PM) applications.
Specialists On Call, Inc. (SOC), has announced that it recently performed its 5,000th emergency neurology consultation via telemedicine since the Company’s inception in 2005.
