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This page includes news coverage of various aspects of patient healthcare, including new technology innovations, what is working, what is not, personalized medicine and remote and telemedicine delivery. Find specific news in the areas of Care Delivery, Digital Transformation, Precision Medicine, Remote Monitoring and Telehealth.

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IBM scores $15M infrastructure deal with InSite One

InSite One, a cloud provider for medical image data archiving, storage and disaster-recovery solutions in the United States, today announced it has chosen IBM technologies for its primary data center expansion and storage device upgrades.

Harris to develop $14M multi-hospital military health info, image network

Harris has been awarded a one-year, $14 million contract by Evolvent Technologies to develop and implement the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Military Health System's global Healthcare Artifact and Image Management Solution (HAIMS).

Successful CIO, CMIO partnerships must present united front

CHICAGO—CMIOs and CIOs must foster and project a unified ideological approach to manage the IT infrastructure within an organization, which, if successful, can translate into improved results for the organization, according to a presentation Tuesday at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference.

Health information exchange survey reveals interesting trends

CHICAGOMost operational health information exchanges (HIEs), although created independently of one another, demonstrate a number of similar structures and goals, according to responses received by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) HIE Common Practices Survey.

Stimulus is golden opportunity, if government works through caveats

CHICAGOThe American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) is a "once in a lifetime event" for providers to grab economic incentives to adopt health IT, but the government still must define vague terms and settle on certification requirements, according to David W. Roberts, vice president of government relations for the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).

Most U.S. hospitals not far from 'meaningful' EMR use

With the Medicare and Medicaid incentives for health IT adoption dangling like a carrot, almost 70 percent of U.S. hospitals are only two steps or less away from having the health IT applications necessary to deliver the likely objectives of meaningful use' for the EMR, according to the HIMSS Analytics EMR Adoption Model.

Agfa scores German PACS install

The University Hospital of Bonn in Germany has selected Agfa HealthCare's PACS for an enterprise-wide implementation.

MEDecision to purchase HIE provider

MEDecision, a provider of collaborative healthcare management solutions, has signed a letter of intent to acquire health information exchange (HIE) provider HxTechnologies for an undisclosed amount.

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Medsender, Patagonia Health team up to aid public health efforts against COVID-19

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