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Coverage includes servers, desktops, mobile carts, laptops, and mobile devices used across the health care industry. Stories look at trends in device selection and utilization, vendor selection issues, and related topics, such as cloud computing.


Can Virtualization Ease the Data Storage Crisis?

Greg Gillespie | May 04
Virtualization hasn't really taken the health care industry by storm, but in the past few years it's becoming increasingly commonplace for organizations large and small to either jump or dabble in storage, server and desktop virtualization by using software to divide physical servers and desktops into multiple virtual environments.
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Data Repositories
Group Practices
Hospitals

HIT Vendor Round-up: Numera, NoMoreClipboard & ReadyPoint

Joseph Goedert | May 04
A new home health product, expanded personal health records functionality and an incident management contract win are among recent announcements from health information technology vendors:
Consumer Health
Health Info Exchange
Systems Integration
Web Technology
Decision Support
Disease Management
Mobile Technology
Hospitals
Vendor News

Senators Want Unique Medical Device Identifier Soon

Joseph Goedert | Apr 19
Legislation being introduced in the Senate would require the Department of Health and Human Services to issue a final rule establishing an unique medical device identifier by the end of 2012, and implement the identification system “as soon as practical.”
Decision Support
Disease Management
Policy & Regulation
Hospitals
Group Practices

Tales from the Use of Tablets in Health Care

Joseph Goedert | Apr 12
When Apple introduced the iPad in January 2010, Steve Jobs called the touch-screen tablet "magical and revolutionary." At least as far as health care is concerned, Jobs' hyperbole may have an inkling of truth.
Mobile Technology
Group Practices
EHR
Decision Support
Hospitals
Web Technology

Health I.T. Vendor Round-up: Sermo, HP, Holon & Spacelabs

Joseph Goedert | Apr 12
New leadership, products, alliances and contract wins are among recent health care information technology vendor announcements:
Web Technology
Group Practices
Health Info Exchange
Hospitals
Decision Support
Vendor News

VA Ready to Waive Telehealth Co-Pays

Joseph Goedert | Apr 09
Unless there are significant adverse comments on rules published in March, the Department of Veterans Affairs in May will eliminate co-payments for in-home video telehealth sessions.
Decision Support
Disease Management
Group Practices
Consumer Health
Hospitals
Payers
Mobile Technology

Allscripts App Supports iPad Access to EHRs

Joseph Goedert | Apr 05
Allscripts has introduced an application to enable use of its electronic health records via an iPad.
EHR
Mobile Technology
Group Practices

Utah Medicaid Hacked

Joseph Goedert | Apr 05
The Utah Department of Health has begun investigating a data breach during which it believes data from approximately 24,000 Medicaid claims was hacked.
Data Security
Electronic Data Interchange
Group Practices
Payers
Hospitals
Consumer Health
Stimulus
Policy & Regulation

Howard University Laptop Theft Affects 34,000+

Joseph Goedert | Mar 30
A personal laptop of a former contractor for Howard University Hospital in Washington, D.C., was stolen and contained protected health information on 34,503 patients.
Data Security
Consumer Health
Policy & Regulation
Stimulus
Hospitals
EHR

HIT Vendor Round-up: CSC, Epocrates, Accuray & Amcom

Joseph Goedert | Mar 27
New Medicaid business, vendor leadership and software highlight health information technology vendor announcements in recent days:
Payers
Vendor News
Decision Support
Disease Management
Electronic Data Interchange
EHR
Mobile Technology
Group Practices
Hospitals

New Leader Named at AMIA

Joseph Goedert | Mar 19
The American Medical Informatics Association has named Kevin Fickenscher, M.D., as president and CEO, succeeding the retiring Ted Shortliffe, M.D.
Electronic Data Interchange
Systems Integration
Health Info Exchange
Group Practices
Hospitals
Policy & Regulation

Senators Want a Unique Medical Device Identifier Soon

Joseph Goedert | Mar 15
Four U.S. Senators have introduced legislation requiring the Food and Drug Administration to issue a final rule establishing a unique device identifier for implantable devices by the end of 2012.
Hospitals
Policy & Regulation
Disease Management
Decision Support
Chronic Care

What in the World is Cloud Computing?

Joseph Goedert | Mar 08
Before cloud computing, there was software-as-a-service computing, which was a lot like its predecessor the application service provider model, which bore many similarities to remotely-hosted apps, which was akin to its predecessor, Web-based computing.
Web Technology
Decision Support
EHR
Health Info Exchange
Policy & Regulation
Group Practices
Hospitals

RTLS Moves On to New Tracking Frontiers

Greg Gillespie | Feb 23
The bread and butter for Awarepoint’s real-time location systems has been tracking patients, providers, mobile assets and workflows. But new and existing clients are adding on a few new functions ...
Consumer Health
Mobile Technology
Wireless/Mobile

Hospital CIO Goes Virtual, Sees Real Savings

Bill Kenealy | Feb 23
CIO Drexel DeFord has set about replacing Seattle Children’s desktop computers with virtual desktops running on zero-client devices.
Data Repositories
Health Info Exchange
Group Practices
Systems Integration
Web Technology
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