The UK's Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has announced a new three year project known as 'WEB-RADR' to develop a mobile app for healthcare professionals and the public to report suspected adverse drug reactions (or ADRs) to national EU regulators. The project is launching in response to the increasing use of smartphones, apps, and social media for discussing issues with healthcare according to the MHRA. The project will be funded though the Innovative Medicines
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PwC to Proposes Open Source EHR for DoD EHR Modernization Project
On Friday, PwC announced it will partner with Medsphere, DSS, Inc. and General Dynamics Information Technology to bid on the $11B DoD EHR Modernization Project. PwC plans to combine its healthcare operational and transformation capabilities with commercial EHR vendors DSS, Inc. and MedSphere, and systems integrator General Dynamics Information Technology to offer an 'open source' EHR promoting greater ease of integration with existing DoD legacy systems as well as unlimited access to ongoing
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Geneia Partners with Covidien to Enter $21B Remote Patient Monitoring Market
Geneia today announced a multi-year, strategic partnership with Covidien to help improve the health of and reduce the costs for chronically ill patients. The partnership with Covidien has agreed to provide Geneia with rights to sell its ZephyrLIFE remote patient monitoring solutions in designated markets to monitor patients with heart disease, diabetes, and other chronic illnesses in the home setting.
Geneia’s @home product combines Covidien’s ZephyrLIFE remote monitoring technology with
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Department of Homeland Security Goes Live on eClinicalWorks
eClinicalWorks®, a leader in ambulatory healthcare IT solutions announces that the Department of Homeland Security is live using eClinicalWorks Cloud-based EHR system for up to 1,000 of its medical professionals to help manage care at all 23 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facilities. Using eClinicalWorks allows the department to create a complete longitudinal record and share data between facilities. Integration with its current systems, including laboratory,
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Launchpad Digital Health Funds Its First 5 Companies
Launchpad Digital Health, a focused next generation accelerator announced that it has funded its first five companies. Each company accepted into the accelerator program receives:
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Fitbit Dominates Digital Fitness Tracker Market
Fitbit is the early dominant leader in the market for digital fitness trackers with nearly 40% of the market, according to new research Parks Associates announced today in advance of the firm's Connected Health Summit: Engaging Consumers, September 4-5 in San Diego, California. The 2Q 2014 survey of more than 5,000 U.S. broadband households found that Fitbit is far ahead of its closest competitors Samsung (14%), Nike+ Sensor (14%), and Nike Fuelband (8%).
"Slightly more than 6% of U.S.
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An Accountable Provider’s Guide to Consumer-Driven Health Care
New white paper from Lumeris provides an accountable provider’s guide to consumer-driven health care and offers 5 strategies to successfully engage patients
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Walgreens and Greenway Health Implement Largest Pharmacy EHR Ever
Greenway Health today announced the completion of the largest centralized cloud based pharmacy EHR system ever deployed, Walgreens Cloud EHR. Walgreens has completed its chain-wide rollout of the Greenway Health-powered EHR solution, giving pharmacy staff at all of its more than 8,200 locations a single, complete view of patients’ prescription, immunization and health testing records.
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TigerText Secure Messaging Volume Surges 750%
TigerText, the leader in secure, real-time secure messaging for the enterprise, marked the first half of 2014 with record sales and customer growth, which led to a 750% spike in message volume. TigerText customers are now sending over 300 million messages per month across its secure platform.
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AirStrip Raises $25M for Mobile Enabled Healthcare Expansion
AirStrip, provider of mobile healthcare applications that drive clinical transformation, has raised $25 million in a strategic funding round led by the Gary and Mary West Health Investment Fund, Sequoia Capital and Wellcome Trust that includes some of the most influential leaders in healthcare.
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