AirStrip and Telenatal have announced their partnership to begin distributing AirStrip's Sense4Baby wireless fetal/maternal monitoring system in 13 European countries. Sense4Baby is used to perform remote maternal and fetal monitoring including for high-risk pregnancies. The monitoring system received a CE mark from the European Commission in 2013 for commercialization in remote settings including self-administration. Established in 2007, Telenatal aims to provide additional care choices to
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Survey: Data Privacy Biggest Barrier to mHealth Adoption
51 percent of healthcare executives find data privacy is the biggest barrier to mHealth adoption, according to a survey of 144 executives and managers in the healthcare industry in 23 countries published by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).
Privacy Concerns
The report, Power to the patient: How mobile technology is transforming healthcare , sponsored by SAP, reveals the path to mHealth adoption will not be smooth. 49 percent of EIU survey respondents think consumer wariness about privacy
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Maimonides Eyes Potential Partnershp with North Shore-LIJ
Maimonides Medical Center, an independent hospital known for their nationally recognized heart and vascular center based in Brooklyn, NY is eyeing a potential partnership with North Shore-LIJ Health Systems, Daily News reports.
The provider announced on Tuesday it has signed a memorandum of understanding to enter into exclusive partnership negotiations with North Shore-LIJ Health Systems, one of the nation’s largest healthcare networks with 19 hospitals in New York City, Long Island,
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HHS & ONC To Invest $28M to Advance HIT Interoperablity
After issuing the nationwide health IT Interoperability Roadmap draft late last week, the ONC today announced it will invest $28 million to advance the adoption and use of interoperable health IT tools and services to support the exchange of health information. These investments will improve care coordination, which in turn will help achieve the goal of better care, smarter spending, and healthier people.
Grant Program Overview
The two-year grant program will provide between 10 to 12 awards
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Rally Health Launches Digital Wellness Platform With Over 5M People
Rally Health, Inc., a leading developer of data-driven solutions for consumer health engagement, today announced the launch of its flagship product, RallySM. The HIPAA-compliant platform leverages the power of personal health data, social networking, and gamification to drive behavior change that is tied to value for the consumer.
Available to consumers through health plans and employers, Rally is a multi-payer, multi-channel platform. The company is a primary provider of
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athenahealth Expands Further Into Inpatient EHR Market
athenahealth acquires Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center's (BIDMC) inpatient EHR system to further penetrate the 100-bed-and-over hospital market.
Cloud based ambulatory EHR provider athenahealth announced today it has purchased webOMR, the web-based inpatient EHR system developed by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) to accelerate the company's ability to penetrate the hospital and health system market. In addition to the purchase, the two organizations have entered a
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3 Winona Health Clinics Earn Stage 7 Ambulatory Awards
HIMSS Analytics awarded three Winona Health ambulatory clinics with Stage 7 Ambulatory Awards.
Developed in 2011, the EMR Ambulatory Adoption Model provides a methodology for evaluating the progress and impact of electronic medical record systems for ambulatory facilities owned by hospitals in the HIMSS Analytics™ Database. Stage 7 represents the highest level of EHR adoption and indicates a health system’s advanced electronic patient record environment.
During the fourth quarter of
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Enterprise Imaging Leader DR Systems Appoints New CEO
Dr. Murray Reicher has been named CEO of DR Systems, Inc., where he succeeds Rick Porritt, who has retired after 20 years with the company. Dr. Reicher co-founded DR Systems in 1992 and has been instrumental in the company's growth to become an industry leader in PACS, RIS, EHR and medical image exchange.
As CEO, Dr. Reicher will continue to focus on partnering with healthcare organizations to improve their clinical and financial success.
"Every day we commit ourselves to
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Obama Unveils $215M Precision Medicine Initiative
President Obama is asking Congress for $215 million to fund the Precision Medicine Initiative, a new patient centered research effort that aims to to accelerate biomedical discoveries and provide clinicians with new tools, knowledge, and therapies to select which treatments will work best for which patients. The Obama administration hopes to launch the new initiative with a $215 million investment in the President's 2016 budget for the fiscal year that starts Oct. 1.
“You can match a blood
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ONC Releases Health IT Interoperability Roadmap
ONC issues draft nationwide health IT Interoperability Roadmap; Implementation resources also released as first deliverable
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) today released Connecting Health and Care for the Nation: A Shared Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap Version 1.0. The draft Roadmap is a proposal to deliver better care and result in healthier people through the safe and secure exchange and use
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