AT&T has partnered with Acuo Technologies, a provider of comprehensive software solutions to the medical imaging industry for archiving, collaboration and migration services. The strategic alliance is meant to develop vendor-neutral, cloud-based medical imaging storage solutions for healthcare providers and suppliers. Acuo is the latest technology ally to join the AT&T ForHealth portfolio...
Rural and Native Americans, ethnic minorities in poor, urban communities and Alaskan Natives often suffer negative health outcomes disproportionately due to a lack of access to various health IT tools, according to five research studies published in Perspectives in Health Information Management.
Perspectives in Health Information Management is the online quarterly journal of scholarly research...
athenahealth has announced that it will be providing its revenue cycle management services to Summit Medical Group (SMG), New Jersey’s largest independently operated, multispecialty medical group. SMG serves patients in the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area and will be deploying athenaCollector, the Company’s cloud-based physician medical billing and practice management service, to more than...
The IT Industry Business Confidence Index released Thursday by CompTIA, the information technology trade association, points to renewed optimism and a strengthening economy. Healthcare advancements are key to the uptick.
The index, an average of sentiment about the economy, IT industry and individual companies, jumped seven points in December. At 60 on a 100-point scale, the index is now at its...
DiagnosisONE, the clinical decision support and analytics firm, has announced that Greenway Medical Technologies has selected the company to provide clinical decision support for its EHR deployments. Through this relationship, Greenway will now seamlessly integrate DiagnosisONE’s CDS solutions into its ONC-ATCB-certified PrimeSUITE 2011 EHR solution to deliver real-time, patient-specific alerts...
Rauland-Borg Corporation, which specializes in developing nurse call technology, has partnered with Voalté, a developer of point-of-care communications software for smartphone platforms. Their collaboration will enable Rauland-Borg’s Responder 5 Nurse Call system to connect directly to caregivers' Voalté-enabled iPhones.
“We are excited to have the opportunity to work with Voalté and offer...
A new survey sponsored by the National Alliance for Caregiving and UnitedHealthcare highlights the ways emerging technologies can alleviate the financial and emotional burdens on family members caring for sick or disabled loved ones.
The report, The e-Connected Family Caregiver: Bringing Caregiving into the 21st Century, released Saturday, found more than two-thirds of family caregivers who...
ZyXEL Communications, a broadband access provider, has announced a strategic partnership with MyGlucoHealth, an integrated telehealth solution, for improving the management of diabetes.
Together, the two firms will offer a joint communication technology to simplify the uploading of data and improve remote monitoring. ZyXEL’s Smart Home Gateway (SHG) mobile wireless router will be integrated with...
InterSystems Corporation has partnered with Spectrum Health, the not-for-profit Michigan health system, to launch a new smartphone app that provides access to personal health information via the provider’s MySpectrum Web-based patient portal.
The InterSystems Ensemble rapid integration and development platform enables the data aggregation and gathering of patient information across the Spectrum...
GE and Intel announced Monday that their joint healthcare initiative will be called Care Innovations, and that the company is operational starting today. Care Innovations will develop technologies that support healthy, independent living at home and in senior housing communities.
The go-live of Care Innovations follows the success of the healthcare alliance between Intel and GE, first...
