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Health Information Technology & Electronic Medical Records News & Reviews

Electronic Health Records and Electronic Medical Records are all over the news with recent focus on Health Care Information Technology. Over the next few years, the world of medical information tech is changing as Health Care is getting a major information technology overhaul as the world moves towards a digital age in health care. Get the latest health care news, insight, analysis, blogs and product reviews from eWeek Health Care IT and Medical IT news articles. Follow the latest growth areas such as automated practice management, electronic health records (EHR), electronic medical records (EMR), computerized physician entry (CPE) and peer intelligence.


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FCC Approves Dedicated Wireless Spectrum for Hospital Medical Sensors

The FCC has approved a proposal allotting a dedicated spectrum for wireless medical sensors, advocated by GE Healthcare and Philips Healthcare.

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U.S. Olympic Committee Adopts GE Centricity EHR Platform for London Games

The U.S. Olympic Committee is making the shift from paper to digital records for the 2012 London Summer Games by using GE's Centricity EHR platform.

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IBM Predictive Analytics Helps North Carolina Detect Medicaid Fraud

IBM's predictive analytics software enabled North Carolina to detect $6.2 million in potentially fraudulent Medicaid payments.

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Bluetooth, Ant+ Self-Monitoring to Grow Faster Than Managed Telehealth: Report

Consumers are more likely to use Bluetooth and Ant+ to track their health themselves than doctors that monitor patient vital signs remotely, according to a report by IMS Research.

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DLI Delivers Rugged Dual-Boot Tablet for Retail, Health Care

DLI's latest rugged tablet, the 9000, comes with a five-in-one module to enable mobile payments in a doctor's office or retail showroom floor.

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Massive Data Breach in Utah State Servers Caused by Configuration Errors

Revelations about a recent breach of confidential data in Utah highlights how configuration errors involving authentication and related areas can end up being costly.

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IBM SmartCloud Helps Empower Medical Workers in Haiti

IBM announced a collaboration with Colleagues In Care to empower medical workers in Haiti through use of the IBM SmartCloud cloud computing platform.

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Carriers Roll Out Mobile Emergency Alerts

Wireless carriers are deploying an emergency alert system along with FEMA to notify the public about weather conditions, AMBER alerts and presidential messages.

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FCC Proposes New Wireless Spectrum for Medical Monitoring

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has unveiled a proposal to increase wireless spectrum for Medical Body Area Network devices to enable uninterrupted monitoring of patients.

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Department of Homeland Security Issues Warning on Medical Device Threats

Medical devices and smartphones can expose patient data and also lead to cyber-security problems, the Department of Homeland Security warned.

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Healthline Semantic Search Platform Gives Context to Health Care Data

Healthline has launched a Consumer Engagement Platform, which allows health plan providers and businesses to offer contextual searching of medical data to their members and employees.

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InterSystems' Revamped HIE Platform Mines Patient Data for Patterns

InterSystems has launched a new version of its HealthSense platform that features data-modeling and enhanced analytics to allow doctors to search through unstructured data.

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Tablet Use Nearly Doubles Among Doctors Since 2011: Report

With the Apple iPad the most popular mobile device, doctors have almost doubled their use of tablets in the last year, according to a new report by Manhattan Research.

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Happtique mRx Trial Prompts Doctors to Prescribe Mobile Apps to Patients

Mobile app store host Happtique has launched a trial to see if its mobile tool will encourage doctors to prescribe health applications and be effective enough to convince patients to actually download them.

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MModal Fluency Cloud Application Converts Speech to Text in EHRs

MModal has introduced Fluency, its latest clinical data capture software, to allow doctors to dictate patient narratives, which are converted from speech to text in electronic health records.

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