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NewsFord finds partners in quest to complete health-monitoring car
The Ford Motor Company has enlisted some new partners in its drive toward developing a car that monitors the health of its owner. The group will work together to improve and build on the prototype Read more...
Blue Button builds momentum inside and outside the VA
The Blue Button campaign that enable veterans to download their medical records from U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and non-VA providers is exceeding the government's expectations. Half a Read more...
2-D bar codes help docs manage vaccines via EHRs
Cook Children's Health Care System in Fort Worth, Texas and athenahealth, a Watertown, Mass., electronic health records vendor, have demonstrated that a new 2-D bar coding system for vaccines can be Read more...
Google Health to shut down at year's end
How far has Google Health really fallen? To answer our own question from just over a month ago, off the map entirely. The platform, which already was under heavy scrutiny, will shut down due to a Read more...
Patient privacy concerns loom large as providers shift to the cloud
The cloud is all the rage today, and healthcare providers are storing personal health information (PHI) on remote servers for an increasing variety of purposes. In a commentary on iHealthBeat, Read more...
How far has Google Health really fallen?
John Moore of Chilmark Research, a respected health IT industry blogger, suggested this week that Google Health is "cryogenically" frozen in place after the disbanding of most of its development Read more...
Quest, Microsoft platform allows shared lab results
Working together, laboratory testing giant Quest Diagnostics and Microsoft have created an infrastructure allowing patients and doctors to share diagnostic lab test results online. The effort relies Read more...
Mayo rolls out PHR with Microsoft platform
The Mayo Clinic has rolled out out a personal health records system using Microsoft's HealthVault PHR platform. And in a trick that could save it a whole lot of HIPAA hassles, the new PHR will not be Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Microsoft to unveil new EMR aggregation software
Microsoft will launch today a new version of its software to aggregate different electronic medical records, which is expected to ease the process of sharing information between patients and Read more...
Patient teleconsults become more common
In recent times, FierceHealthIT readers have learned about a wide range of telemedicine options that have been emerging, ranging from remote monitoring of patients in their homes to telemedical Read more...
| Press ReleasesCandelis and Microsoft Team Up to Empower PatientsPatients can access and control their medical imagesCHICAGO, Nov. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Candelis announced today that it has reached a definitive agreement with Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) whereby Read more >> |
