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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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TeraMedica debuts UnivisionImageport enterprise viewer

TeraMedica Healthcare Technology, a Milwaukee-based healthcare informatics company, has launched its new Univision-Imageport enterprise viewer.

Obama: DoD, VA to be connected through virtual EHRs

President Barack Obama announced plans Thursday to create a joint virtual lifetime electronic record that will improve care and services to transitioning veterans by easing the flow of medical records between the Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs administrations.

IBM, Oklahoma university to build home healthcare delivery model

The University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine and IBM have partnered to build an EMR-enabled primary care practice model that will meet President Obama's vision of an information-based, connected healthcare system.

CCHIT sees 33% surge in EHR certification applications from last year

A rush of applications to meet a March 31 deadline for applying for the 2008 cycle of testing brought the number of ambulatory EHR products seeking to become certified by the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) to 64.

Government offers free NHIN connection software

The Federal Health Architecture, an E-Gov initiative led by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), is making free software available as a first step to help public and private health information technology systems communicate to the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN).

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.

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Cardiovascular Business
Q&A: MedAxiom CEO explores key trends in cardiologist, cardiovascular surgeon compensation

Compensation for heart specialists continues to climb. What does this say about cardiology as a whole? Could private equity's rising influence bring about change? We spoke to MedAxiom CEO Jerry Blackwell, MD, MBA, a veteran cardiologist himself, to learn more.

Cardiovascular Business
Payment cuts and beyond: Key takeaways for cardiologists from the 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule

The American College of Cardiology has shared its perspective on new CMS payment policies, highlighting revenue concerns while providing key details for cardiologists and other cardiology professionals. 

AI in Healthcare
A modest proposal to rally AI regulators around a simple game plan

As debate simmers over how best to regulate AI, experts continue to offer guidance on where to start, how to proceed and what to emphasize. A new resource models its recommendations on what its authors call the “SETO Loop.”