Technology from Formula One to be used in Surrey healthcare trial (Times Online)
By using the same technology that helped Jenson Button to win the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne on Sunday, the NHS is on the verge of a breakthrough that could revolutionise healthcare and cut millions off the health budget.
Helping To Improve Disability Determination Through Health Information Technology (Medical News Today)
The Regenstrief Institute has been awarded a Recovery Act contract to help the U.S. Social Security Administration and Indiana healthcare providers shorten and improve the process of making disability case determinations through automation. Work is scheduled to begin March 31. The process of acquiring medical information for an SSA disability claim involves numerous requests to multiple …
Microsoft’s General Manager for U.S. Healthcare Leads World-Class List of Speakers at Upcoming ShareFEST Conference (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.—-Steve Aylward, General Manager, U.S. Healthcare and Life Sciences Group for Microsoft, leads a list of presenters from major life sciences and technology companies at ShareFEST 2010, a conference focused exclusively on the use of Microsoft Office SharePoint by pharmaceutical, medical device, contract research, and biotechnology firms.
John Tempesco, VP at Informatics Corporation of America, Named Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
NASHVILLE, Tenn.—-John Tempesco, vice president of Client Services and Marketing at Informatics Corporation of America , was named a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives at the 67th Annual American Healthcare Executive Convocation in Chicago, Ill., on March 21, 2010.
Decreasing health-care costs is focus of new informatics book by NJIT professor (EurekAlert!)
( New Jersey Institute of Technology ) A topical new book about using informatics to reduce health-care costs edited by Stephan Kudyba, an assistant professor in the NJIT School of Management, will be released early this May. “Healthcare Informatics: Improving Efficiency and Productivity” (CRC Press) addresses the incorporation of information technologies and information management by health …
Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium Chooses Cerner for Consumer-Focused Healthcare Technology (GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. and ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Alaska Native Medical Center has chosen Cerner Corporation to implement healthcare information technology solutions throughout their campus.
Opportunities galore for healthcare on the Cloud (CIOL)
Getting on to the cloud will bring to the healthcare segment opportunities in the areas such as decision support system, terminology services, medication management, medical knowledge mash-ups, clinical research, medical networks and more, say Ravickumar Murugesan, head, SCM & Tools and Dr. Brian Cohen, chief technology officer at healthcare IT company iSOFT , in an interview to CIOL.
US healthcare reforms to spawn $20-bn market for IT players (Business Standard India)
President Barack Obama will not be the only one celebrating the passage of the US healthcare reforms Bill by the US House of Representatives. Indian IT companies are equally jubilant. That s because the Bill, which proposes to create Electronic Health Records (EHRs) for all Americans by 2014, is expected to open up a $20 billion market opportunity for Indian IT services firms like Infosys, Wipro …
PAREXEL International to Present at Barclays Capital Global Healthcare Conference (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
PAREXEL International Corporation announced today it will be presenting at the Barclays Capital Global Healthcare Conference in Miami, Florida. Josef von Rickenbach, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer will be making a formal presentation on PAREXEL at 1:30 p.m.
Thomas Goetz: The Dark Side of Healthcare Technology (The Huffington Post)
In nearly every economic sector, technology drives costs down. But in healthcare, technology has had the opposite effect. At long last, though, that’s changing through scalable technologies.