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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 DeliveryDigital TransformationPrecision MedicineRemote Monitoring and Telehealth.

IOD Incorporated Acquires ApeniMED Technology to Streamline Release of Information Efforts

GREEN BAY, Wis.-- IOD Incorporated, the leader in full-suite health information management (HIM) solutions for hospitals, healthcare systems and clinics, today announced its acquisition of ApeniMED. Based in Minneapolis, Minn., ApeniMED is a leader in healthcare interoperability and Healtheway (formerly the Nationwide Health Information Network Exchange) connectivity.

HealthMEDX and Spectrum Health Announce Live Interoperability and Patient Information Exchange

Ozark, Missouri (PRWEB) October 23, 2013-- Spectrum Health, a not-for-profit health system in West Michigan, and HealthMEDX, the leading provider of electronic medical record for LTPAC, have implemented standards-based interoperability to successfully automate the exchange of patient information between Spectrum Health’s inpatient settings and their post-acute care facilities.

NIH awards $29M to Scripps Translational Science Institute

Scripps Translational Science Institute in La Jolla, Calif., is yet again the recipient of a multimillion dollar National Institutes of Health grant to support research in genomics, wireless technology and bioinformatics toward individualizing medicine.

Gartner names top 10 strategic technology trends for 2014

Gartner, a Stamford, Conn.-based IT research firm, identified ten strategic technology trends that it advises companies to plan for in 2014 and beyond.

Medical simulation market to hit $1.9B by 2017

Over the past decade, the healthcare medical simulation industry has experienced significant growth due to the focus on patient safety and technological advancements—with more growth to come.

Virtualization, speech recognition poised for growth

Virtualization software and dictation with speech recognition are technologies showing the highest adoption rate within the hospital IT market, according to a recent report from HIMSS Analytics.

Cleveland Clinic releases list of top 10 innovations

A bionic eye, a neurostimulator for epilepsy and fecal transplantation all appear on Cleveland Clinic’s top ten medical innovations for 2014.

MEGAS Achieves EHNAC Healthcare Network Accreditation

MEGAS LLC, a Tallahassee-based software firm, announced today it has achieved full accreditation with the Healthcare Network Accreditation Program (HNAP) for Electronic Health Networks (EHN), from the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC). EHNAC's HNAP accreditation recognizes excellence in health data processing and transactions, and ensures compliance with industry-established standards and HIPAA regulations.

Around the web

CMS finalized a significant policy change when it increased the Medicare payments hospitals receive for performing CCTA exams. What, exactly, does the update mean for cardiologists, billing specialists and other hospital employees?

Stryker, a global medtech company based out of Michigan, has kicked off 2025 with a bit of excitement. The company says Inari’s peripheral vascular portfolio is highly complementary to its own neurovascular portfolio.

RBMA President Peter Moffatt discusses declining reimbursement rates, recruiting challenges and the role of artificial intelligence in transforming the industry.