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Abstract:  Patient portals can offer important benefits to patients and provider organizations. These technologies — particularly when integrated with an electronic health record (EHR) — have the potential to improve both quality and access to care through features that enable patients to: communicate electronically and securely with their provider; access their medical records; schedule appointments; pay bills; and refill prescriptions.This paper examines research documenting the
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Wyse Cloud Client Computing has completed another successful customer implementation at Seattle Children's Hospital in Seattle, WA. With approximately 4,500 employees supporting 292,000 annual patient visits, Seattle Children's specializes in meeting the physical, emotional, and developmental needs of children from infancy through young adulthood. The hospital is consistently ranked among the nation’s best children’s hospitals by U.S. News & World Report magazine.
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Neil de Crescenzo, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle Health Sciences Global Business Unit, discusses how the new Oracle Health Sciences Cloud supports the increasingly networked environment for research, clinical development, and healthcare delivery in the healthcare and life sciences market. Facts: Oracle Health Sciences Cloud Applications will be powered by the next-generation Oracle® Health Sciences Cloud, a scalable and secure software-as-a-service delivery platform
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CareTech Solutions, an information technology and Web products and services provider for more than 180 U.S. hospitals, today unveiled its iDoc™ Savings Calculator, at the Michigan Health Information Management Association’s annual meeting. Located on the company’s website, the online tool will estimate annual savings for an organization after it implements the company’s document imaging and management solution. “CareTech Solutions’ iDoc Savings Calculator helps hospitals isolate costs
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HealthCollaborate™ is designed to enable clinicians globally to form/join communities of providers and to securely communicate, exchange patient data, collaborate on patient cases, share ideas, trade documents, send and receive messages containing PHI such as referrals, images and results, create discussion forums, share knowledge, ask questions from colleagues and more. HealthCollaborate™ enables providers to connect to their patients and securely send health education, messages,
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GE Healthcare collaborates with the Milwaukee Public Museum to reveal dramatic details of three mummies from ancient Egypt and Peru. GE's state-of-the-art CT750 HD provided comprehensive high-quality scans that will help the museum determine how the mummies lived and died -- and even identify possible evidence of ancient brain surgery!
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This is a great video from Dr. Robert Wah, Chief Medical Officer for CSC, that provides his views on the future of health IT at Innoventure 2011.
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 U.S. technology services provider Computer Sciences Corp (CSC) said it would acquire healthcare software provider iSOFT Group Ltd for about $188 million.Computer Sciences will offer iSOFT shareholders A$0.17 a share, 224 percent more than iSOFT's March 24 close on the Australian Stock Exchange."When completed, this acquisition will be a critical step in the expansion of our global healthcare business," CSC Chief Executive Michael Laphen said in a statement.Australia-based iSOFT Group,
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In its 50th year HIMSS takes a look back at the tremendous advances in health IT, as well as the future of care and technology through the perspectives of innovative healthcare organizations.
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