A new report from Ambient Insight shows that the U.S. corporate market for self-paced e-learning products and services reached $6.8 billion in 2010, and projects that revenues will reach $7.1 billion by 2015.
The report, The US Corporate Market for Self-paced eLearning Products and Services: 2010-2015 Forecast, analyzes expenditures by four company sizes: small, medium, large, and enterprise....
HARTFORD, CT – More and more, payers and providers are finding new and innovative ways in which video games can foster better health.
Last February, the Department of Defense's TRICARE health plan put Linden Labs' Second Life game to work, creating a virtual world where active-duty servicemen can spend time with their families while overseas. In April, VA hospitals launched a pilot program in...
At the IBM SmartCamp, which puts start-up firms together with venture capitalists and industry leaders to provide coaching and support, three of the five finalists are focused on empowering patient-driven healthcare.
That stands to reason, says Drew Clark, director of strategy for IBM Venture Capital Group. While empowering patients to take control of their own health improvement is a "trend we...
"Historically, telehealth hasn't received the attention that it's deserved from the federal government," says Neal Neuberger, executive director of the Institute for e-Health Policy and president of Health Tech Strategies. A case in point is the government's meaningful use program.
Neuberger spoke with Healthcare IT News after participating in a panel discussion at the American Telemedicine...
The emerging patient-centered medical home (PCMH) approach to primary care is talked about a lot these days – but that doesn't mean everyone is necessarily eager to jump in head first. At the American Telemedicine Association's annual meeting, one project manager shared his tips for spurring adoption.
Leveraging smart and intensive use of health IT, a team-based approach, and provider-inspired...
TRICARE, the Department of Defense healthcare program, has contracted with San Mateo, Calif.-based Epocrates to offer physicians mobile access to the TRICARE formulary list.
Officials say that improved access to drug information at the point of care will translate into improved the doctor-patient relationships, better care delivery, and cost savings for military families.
“Epocrates provides a...
Harris Corporation and Johns Hopkins Medicine have announced a joint venture to develop next-generation medical image management solutions. The collaboration brings together Harris' health information and security technologies with Johns Hopkins' clinical expertise to fuel innovations in medical image management. The venture will focus on developing medical image management solutions to be...
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ORLANDO – Jeff Donnell, president of Fort Wayne, Ind.-based NoMoreClipboard.com, a personal health record company that was spun off from ambulatory EHR vendor Medical Informatics Engineering, used to work in advertising.
Back then, he heard of an agency that created a spoof firm: Mammoth Pervasive and Bland, Inc. “They talked about how they specialized in lunch, and overcharged for branding,...
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“It’s widely agreed upon that barcoding at the bedside does improve patient safety,” said Coray Tate, clinical research director at KLAS. “That’s been proven without any doubt.”
The question, then, is how best to go about implementing a barcoding system for medication administration – and, of course, which one to implement.
For most of the bigger hospitals with large EHR installations, said...
InstantDx/OnCallData has released updated mobile applications for the iPad, iPhone, BlackBerry and Android devices that will provide physicians, hospitals and emergency rooms functionality to complement its new state-of-the-art portal.
It is the latest development for a pioneer firm that launched the first true two-way electronic connection to pharmacies, the first regional e-prescribing...
