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Optum, Mayo Clinic Partner to Launch Optum Labs: An Open, Collaborative Research and Innovation Facility Focused on Better Care for Patients

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., and ROCHESTER, Minn., Jan. 15, 2013 -- Optum and Mayo Clinic today jointly launched Optum Labs, an open, collaborative research and development facility with a singular goal: improving patient care. Based in Cambridge, [+]

New Analytics Models Help to Support State HIEs

  ACOs have received a lot of attention as the new model to improve quality and tie payment to healthy outcomes. States have been exploring the model to varying degrees and looking at what is required [+]

Winners announced in Cambridge Wireless Discovering Start-Ups

Five new technology businesses walked away as winners at last night’s finals of the Cambridge Wireless Discovering Start-Ups 2011 competition. Advanced Balance Systems, Blu-Wireless Technology, Mindings, Proxama and Qiqqa were selected from 20 start-ups invited to pitch their innovative [+]

Medical folks have one more reason to love their Macs, Free money!

MacMall has announced a Medical Office Makeover Contest that has a benefit of $23,000 if you are the winning practice, The Medical Office Makeover Contest features a prize for larger offices with 11 or more employees valued [+]

Duke of York visits healthcare communication specialist

Prince Andrew last week visited DocCom to find out how its healthcare communications model for the Facebook generation will save countless lives. On a tour of the company's Bristol offices, the Duke of York met the team of [+]

Real-Time Physiological Patient Data Provider Isansys

 Isansys Lifecare Limited, the provider of complete real-time physiological patient data services and systems, today announces the opening of Isansys Lifecare Systems Pvt Ltd., a new venture that offers access to Isansys’ real-time vital signs data solutions to the [+]

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.     A daily reminder from HeartMath [+]

The new face of health care is DEATH CHEESE!!!

Yes, a group of doctors thought is was a good idea to put a cheese head on grim reaper and stick it on a billboard down the street from Lambeau Field, where the Packers football [+]

What if you had a scanner that could detect pain in a patient? That tech is here!

    Today's pain meter is a very "rub the belly, pat the head" type of meter.  We ask the patient on a scale of 1-10, how much pain do you have?  This type of pain meter [+]

At least the health care field typically cares if you die at your job

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Imprivata and PhoneFactor Partner to Provide Caregivers Access to Protected Health Information

Imprivata®, Inc., and PhoneFactor today announced a reseller partnership to provide phone-based authentication services to Imprivata customers. The partnership builds upon existing technology integration between the two platforms, creating a joint solution that is offered [+]

YourNurseIsOn.com continues to be awesome

YourNurseIsOn.com has been selected to kick off the Health 2.0 Week in San Francisco late this September.  YourNurseIsOn.coms’s “secret sauce” is the patent-pending 2-way communications process that provides staff with the ability to accept/reject the shift [+]

2011 Release Hospital EHR Adoption Database

A Tool for Strategic Planning and Research The EHR database is used as a foundation for national research and government studies (e.g., Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology) and as a planning tool [+]

HP Healthcare is NOT DEAD!

HP threw the PC world into a loop two weeks ago when they said they intended to shutdown their mobile device lines and sell their PC division to the highest bidder.  This announcement made mouths [+]

New tech attempts to improve care for heart attack victims

Physio-Control has recently announced availability of the ReadyLink 12-Lead ECG device, a new solution designed to improve care for heart attack patients and speed time to treatment. ReadyLink gives prehospital basic life support (BLS) providers [+]

Curaspan Health Group® Unveils DischargeCentral®, the New-and-Improved eDischarge™ Software-as-a-Service Application

Curaspan Health Group (www.curaspan.com), the company that transformed discharge planning more than 10 years ago with the industry-leading eDischarge application, today introduced another innovation: DischargeCentral. The new DischargeCentral software-as-a-service (SaaS) application combines the ease of [+]

Cleveland Clinic makes the Wizard of Oz meet Star Trek

Cleveland Clinic is taking robotic and mannequin training to a whole new level. Call it The Wizard of Oz meets Star Trek. Technologically sophisticated mannequins, robots with 3-D vision, and computers that can “feel” are part [+]

Mayo Clinic Opens new experimental “non-competitive” facility for primary care

Mayo Clinic's newest facility is gathering some attention.  They have opened a "lab" for primary care experimentation in one of the largest malls in the world, the Mall of America, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  The internationally known [+]

AARP study shows $450 Billion per year in health care done in the home

I was extraordinarilly surprised when I saw this.  I knew that many Americans are providing home care for their elderly parents or disabled spouses, but I never dreamed it would be this wide spread.  A new [+]

Are you seriously still using a pager? Yes? Let me guess, you work in healthcare?

Healthcare has some awesome technology, but pagers aren't one of them.  It still boggles my mind how many facilities I have seen that still have a text pager on the hip of their physicians and [+]

A 3yr old girl could use your help

After Lilli was born, it took 21 months of medical confusion and speculation for doctors to conclude Lilli had Smith-Magenis Syndrome (SMS), a developmental disorder that affects the 17th chromosome. SMS causes [+]

Free Smart Phone Strategy Webinar for Health Care Execs

Voalté, a leading developer of innovative point-of-care communications software on the iPhone and other smart phone platforms, today announced that it will host a free one-hour webinar on May 19: “3 steps to get your [+]

Intuit Health: A Sleeping Giant with Big Potential

The good folks over at SoftwareAdvice.com sent me a new article they wrote on the possibilities of Intuit Health.  Intuit is best known for the Quickbooks series of applications.  However, they are diving into health [+]

Cheap Drug Beats Pricey One In Treating Vision Loss In Elderly

A government-sponsored study released yesterday compared Lucentis, a drug approved to treat a common form of blindness in the elderly called macular degeneration, to Avastin, a cancer drug eye doctors have been using to treat [+]

Voalté’s Connectivity Enables Hospitals to Leverage Infrastructure

As tablets and smart phones evolve and make their way into hospitals, many health care executives are working to develop a successful mobile-integration strategy. St. Joseph, Mo.-based Heartland Regional Medical Center recently implemented Voalté’s iPhone [+]
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