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ARLINGTON, Va., Oct. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Despite recently sustaining $2.5 billion in federal public health spending cuts and facing billions more in cuts under sequestration, public health departments across the nation are racing to detect cases of meningitis associated with the ongoing widespread outbreak and ensure at-risk patients are contacted, properly counseled, and offered proper treatment, as well as monitoring the removal of any tainted vials of the...
SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) scientists are collaborating with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Public Health Data Standards Consortium (PHDSC) to further standardize the exchange and use of public health information to improve healthcare quality and coordination of care. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090416/IBMLOGO ) Controlling major outbreaks of infections such as whooping cough or tracking...
PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- If you want a better understanding of the governmental public health enterprise and the contributions state and territorial health agencies make to public health, the recently released ASTHO Profile of State Public Health, Volume Two is your best resource. This publication, produced by the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), gives critical insight into how governmental public health is structured and...
Orion Health announces that its Health Information Exchange (HIE) solution has been enhanced to include a modular suite of components that allows Healthcare organizations to more easily tailor a solution to meet their unique HIE needs. Santa Monica, CA (Vocus) November 30, 2010 Orion Health today announces that its Health Information Exchange (HIE) solution has been enhanced to include a modular suite of components that allows Healthcare organizations to more easily tailor a solution to...
GREAT RIVER, N.Y., Oct. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Netsmart Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of software and services for health and human services organizations, today announced agreements with three Michigan public health departments to implement Netsmart's Insight public health software solution. The Oakland County Health Division, Calhoun County Public Health Department and Van Buren County/Cass County District Health Department each selected Netsmart's Insight software. Insight is a...
CDC Report notes advances in preparedness and response and challenges ahead ATLANTA, Sept. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- State and local health departments have made significant progress toward improving public health emergency preparedness and response capabilities, says a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report. "Today's report indicates that our nation is better prepared to respond to a public health emergency. It also reminds us that preparedness challenges remain and our...
CHICAGO, Jan. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Greenway Medical Technologies, Inc., provider of the single-database, fully-integrated electronic health record (EHR), practice management and interoperability solution, PrimeSuite®, is participating within a series of more than a dozen public health, quality and clinical research interoperability testing events today through January 15 at the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) North America Connectathon in Chicago. The IHE North America...
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- MIR3, Inc., the pioneering innovator of real-time universal notification and response technology for the enterprise, announced today that Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a United States federal agency under the Department of Health and Human Services based in Atlanta, Georgia, has selected MIR3's hosted platform for its global health alerting needs. MIR3's inEnterprise(TM) Intelligent Notification and Response platform will enable CDC to...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS), in collaboration with Cisco Systems, has demonstrated the ability to rapidly, safely, and securely exchange healthcare information in a virtual - or cloud - computing environment. At a recent demonstration during the Public Health Information Network Conference in Atlanta, the companies showed that security and privacy of web-based health information remains protected with a service as data is encrypted in...
CARROLLTON, Ga., Sept. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Current studies show that only four percent of physician's practices are using electronic health records (EHRs) at the point of care. By 2019, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that by properly incentivizing physicians, health information technology (HIT) adoption can increase to about 90 percentEHRs will create rapid, real time reporting whereby potentially harmful health outbreaks can be reported and responded to...
