Latest Personal health record Stories
DELRAY BEACH, Fla., Nov. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Avoiding hospital readmission takes more than a committed hospital. It takes a committed patient. The national in-home care company Preferred Care at Home is empowering patients to take charge of their recovery with the help of a free 15-piece tool kit called the Personal Health Record. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121102/CG05147) On average, one in five Medicare patients discharged from a hospital checks back...
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., Nov. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Practice communications management company Updox and electronic health record solutions provider, SOAPware Inc., have shaped a strategic alliance in order to improve health information exchange. The two will work together to provide SOAPware EHR customers with a fully integrated, bi-directional, electronic faxing and document management solution. SOAPware, having accumulated 2 decades of experience in the EMR industry, ranks in the top...
CHICAGO, Oct. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Amdocs (NYSE: DOX), the leading provider of customer experience systems and services, launched two new cloud-based solutions to provide support for in-home management and monitoring of elderly and chronically-ill patients today at 4G World. Amdocs Home Health Monitoring and Amdocs' solution for Aging in Place enable service providers to enter the rapidly expanding eHealth market while helping families, healthcare providers and governments...
New Weill Cornell study provides compelling evidence that commercially available electronic health records are associated with better physician performance A new study by Weill Cornell Medical College researchers, published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, provides compelling evidence that electronic health records (EHRs) enhance the quality of patient care in a community-based setting with multiple payers, which is representative of how medicine is generally practiced across...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Advisory Board Company announced that Kinergy Health's MyKinergy cloud-hosted tool has won the Patient Engagement Blue Button Challenge and received the $25,000 grand prize. The announcement was made at the Health 2.0 Fall Conference on Monday, October 8 in San Francisco. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110802/PH45999LOGO ) The Advisory Board Company sponsored the Blue Button Challenge to spur innovation in encouraging...
Healthcare Holdings Group, Inc. ("HCH") formally announced today asset acquisition of the 17-year-old private technology firm Clinical Data Technologies ("CDT"). Boca Raton, FL (PRWEB) October 08, 2012 Healthcare Holdings Group, Inc. (“HCH”) formally announced today an asset acquisition of the 17-year-old private technology firm Clinical Data Technologies (“CDT”). The acquisition was completed in June 2012 and operations have formally integrated as of the end...
CareClix, a telemedicine company based in the Washington, DC area, has partnered with FederalConference.com, to provide telehealth services for their employees. The agreement provides a comprehensive virtual health solution to a rapidly growing Inc. 500 company. Fairfax County, VA (PRWEB) September 11, 2012 FederalConference.com’s team members are constantly traveling while providing their event planning services to government clients around the world. The CareClix telemedicine...
AHIMA announces new tool at ONC Consumer Health Summit CHICAGO, Sept. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new guide will help consumers understand how to access and use their medical records. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120726/DC47093LOGO) Developed by the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), the nonprofit association representing Health Information Management (HIM) professionals, the new online guide called Understanding Your Medical...
LONDON, August 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- In May 2012 the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust launched a personal online health record system for patients. The ultimate aim of the new system is to empower patients to be better informed not only about their health conditions but also about the service pathways available to them. In an interview with the Healthcare IT Exchange, Mike Denis, Director of Information Strategy at South London and Maudsley NHS...
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. and SINGAPORE, Aug. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Global Health Voyager, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: GLHV), a US based full service international medical management company, offering access to a vast worldwide network of highly accredited facilities and providers offering healthcare surgical dental and wellness procedures, announced today that it entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Janus Medical Systems of Singapore. This MOU grants Global Health...
