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Trend: Number of tools to remotely collect health data growing

August 24, 2008 — 10:23pm ET | By Anne Zieger
In the near future, it should become increasingly common for patients to collect personal healthcare data with a specialized device and shunt it easily to a server or website. Such tools, which... Read more...

A PHR turning point

September 24, 2007 — 6:59am ET
So, as you'll see in this issue of FierceHealthIT, it appears that the giant PHR project sponsored by mega-employers like Intel, AT&T and Wal-Mart is back underway. Unlike some PHR versions... Read more...

Huge employee health record effort in jeopardy

July 23, 2007 — 6:59am ET
Late last year, a group of giant U.S. and European companies announced they would build a... Read more...

ALSO NOTED: EMR for the iPhone; SRA to run federal health databases; and much more...

July 8, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

> Well, that was fast. An EMR vendor has announced a new version of its technology that supports the Apple iPhone. Article

> U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration has awarded a $68.6 million contract to SRA International to operate the agency's National Practitioner Data Bank and Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank. …

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New health data standards gaining support

May 28, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

While standards will always be with us, sometimes one or two break out from the pack and gain more widespread support. Of late this seems to be the case with two, the Continuity of Care Record and the PDF-H. The CCR standard, an XML-based set of data used when patients move from one care setting to another, is being used for a growing number of RHIO efforts. At the same time, a more secure, healthcare-oriented version of the familiar PDF format, known as PDF-H, is also drawing attention. …

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Giant firms plan health data warehouse

December 3, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

Healthcare industry, meet the strong arm of Wall Street. A group of U.S. and European giants, including Intel, Wal-Mart and British Petroleum, plan to take a major element of the U.S. healthcare IT system into their own hands, building a giant joint data warehouse linking hospital, physician and pharmacy data. The giant firms expect doctors and hospitals to make nice and share data with them, or risk losing their business. Such requirements aren't very surprising: Wal-Mart, for one, is …

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ALSO NOTED: MDs still shun IT tools; Allina continues $240M EHR push; and much more...

October 8, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

> Many physicians don't use even the simplest, cheapest IT tools in their practice. Email a patient? Forget it. Article

> Minneapolis-based Allina Hospitals and Clinics is moving ahead with its $240 million EHR push. Five Allina hospitals already maintain electronic patient records.  …

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Is IT delivering what healthcare industry wants?

October 1, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

Sort of, say attendees of a recent conference, presented by Paragon Development Systems, which brought together more than 300 corporate clients and representatives of vendor partners like Microsoft and Intel. Interestingly, even organizations that understand the importance of digital capability have decided to trust vendors less and themselves more. Case in point: …

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ALSO NOTED: Data mining tools boost productivity; Hawaii advances telemedicine program; and much more...

October 1, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

> Intel designs mobile platform for health industry. Article

> Phoenix steps up telemedicine program. Article

> Elsevier enhances EMR offering. Item

> Data mining tools boost radiology department productivity. …

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