Intel-GE Care Innovations, a joint venture of GE Healthcares Home Health Group and Intel's Digital Health Group, has received 510(k) market clearance from the FDA for the Intel Health Guide Express remote health management system.

IBMs Patient Empowerment System patient portal, previewing at CeBIT in Hanover, Germany, this week, expands the types of information that healthcare providers can offer to patients online.

Seventy-nine percent of healthcare professionals in a recent survey reported using an iPad for professional use. Trailing behind, Windows PC and Android-based tablets were used by 12 percent and 9 percent of the respondents, respectively, according to the survey by healthcare communications company Aptilon.

California Health Information Partnership and Services Organizations (CalHIPSO), a federally designated regional extension center (REC) in California, has selected eClinicalWorks as a first-round EHR Partner for its primary care providers.

Albemarle Health, in Elizabeth City, N.C., will deploy iMDsofts MetaVision clinical information system tool throughout its pre- and intra-operative environments to standardize and assist data collection and track performance measures.

ORLANDO, Fla.--The changing healthcare landscape has driven the George Washington Hospital to invest time, effort and energy in ED processes that had been neglected, said Neal Sikka, MD, director of emergency medicine at the George Washington University Medical Faculty Associates in Washington, D.C. Access to data also spurred improvement, said Sikka, speaking at HIMSS11 conference last week.

Community radiologists can select from an array of dose management strategies to counter the wave of alarm over the small and unproven risks of low-dose radiation that is sweeping the country and threatens to undermine the considerable benefits that accrue from careful and judicious use of modern CT technology, according to a clinical perspective published in this month's American Journal of Roentgenology.

Bethesda Health Group, a senior care and services organization in St. Louis, Mo., has begun utilizing Cerner's Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) platform, built on the company's BeyondNow software architecture.