HIMSS: AT&T, AMA combine online portals

The American Medical Association (AMA) and AT&T will merge its community portal for physicians, Amagine, with the Dallas-based communication firm’s cloud-based health information exchange platform, Healthcare Community Online, and its attached applications. This announcement was made during the 2012 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference last week.

The combined product will be owned and operated by AT&T and will be called Healthcare Community Online. Benefits of the merger will include collaboration between Amagine and Healthcare Community Online users and a suite of tools at those users’ disposal, according to a company statement.

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