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<item><title>Verizon, Health Evolution Partners Spur Health Care IT Development</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:06:45 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Verizon and Health Evolution Partners are looking to enable development in real-time care coordination and mobile data services.   -  Health care IT investor Health Evolution Partners
and Verizon Enterprise Solutions are collaborating to foster innovation in
mobile health, telemedicine and health data management. The partnership, which
both companies announced Feb. 6, will leverage Verizon's IT infrastructure to
spur innovatio...]]></description>
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<item><title>GE Centricity Portal Adds HIE, SMS Support</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:25:57 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[GE has released an update to its Centricity Patient Online portal to incorporate SMS texting between patients and doctors, as well as access to health information exchanges.   -  GE Healthcare has rolled out the 13th version of its Centricity Patient Online portal. This latest incarnation gives patients the ability to send text messages to their doctors, pay bills and view their health information online.
With the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services preparing to re...]]></description>
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<item><title>Consult A Doctor to License Its Telehealth Platform to Hospitals, Clinics</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:17:28 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[At the HIMSS12 conference in Las Vegas, telehealth vendor Consult A Doctor will introduce new cloud-based virtual exam models that hospitals and clinics can implement and customize to suit their requirements.   -  Telehealth provider Consult A Doctor plans to debut two new additions to its  remote-care platform at the HIMSS12 health care IT conference from Feb. 20-24 in Las Vegas to allow hospitals and clinics to customize  access plans  for cloud-based virtual visits.
Consult A Doctor is a cloud-based platf...]]></description>
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<item><title>Health Care Lacks Software Innovation for Apple iPad: Report</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:26:21 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Doctors have embraced the Apple iPad, but more software innovation is needed for clinical computing on the tablet, Spyglass Consulting Group reveals in a new study.   -  Although doctors believe the Apple iPad will play a beneficial role in health care, many say the popular Apple tablet lacks the software innovation needed in the medical profession, according to a new study by Spyglass Consulting Group.
In the report  quot;Point of Care Computing for Physicians 201...]]></description>
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<item><title>GE to Shutter Centricity Advance EHR Software for Small Practices</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:19:46 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[GE has announced it will fold its cloud Centricity Advance product for small practices into its flagship Centricity Practice Solution.   -  GE Healthcare has announced it will
discontinue its Centricity Advance electronic health record (EHR) application
for small practices as of June 30.
Centricity
is GE's EHR platform used by both physician practices and hospitals. It
incorporates medical, pharmaceutical, financial and administrat...]]></description>
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<item><title>Kaiser Permanente Launches Mobile Android Health Record App</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:55:05 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Health plan Kaiser Permanente has introduced an Android application to allow patients to access their electronic health records.   -  Health plan Kaiser Permanente has launched an Android version of its electronic health record platform to allow patients to access their medical data on the popular Google-powered devices.
KP is a health insurer with member facilities in nine states and the District of Columbia, although it is conc...]]></description>
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<item><title>New Mobile App Allows Consumers to Compare Drug Prices at Pharmacies</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:46:46 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The new mobile app from LowestMed could be the Travelocity of health care, offering a comparison of drug prices.   -  A company called LowestMed has launched a mobile app that allows consumers to compare drug prices at their local pharmacy chains.
The app will be a mobile extension of the company's Web resource for comparative drug prices and prescription discount cards. 
LowestMed's  software uses a mobile phone...]]></description>
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<item><title>ATandT Introduces Management Platform to Secure Tablets in Health Care</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:56:44 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[AT&amp;T has launched a platform to allow health care professionals to manage data security on tablets and also unveiled a HIPAA-compliant mobile-messaging suite.   -  AT amp;T has introduced a mobile device management platform for health care called Managed Tablets to provide a way for doctors to connect to hospitals' data networks securely.
With mobile devices presenting a potential data breach threat, AT amp;T is looking to secure mobile access to sensitive he...]]></description>
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<item><title>Health Care IT Managers Want to Adopt HIEs, but Lack of Funds Stymies Them</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:02:14 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Health care IT managers have interest in connecting to health information exchanges but lack the resources to adopt them, according to a survey by consulting firm Beacon Partners.   -  Health care IT managers want to adopt health information exchanges, but a lack of capital may hold them back, according to a new survey by health care management consulting firm Beacon Partners.
HIEs allow hospitals, laboratories, pharmacies and physicians to share electronic health records (EHRs) ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Mobile Health Data Access Jumps 125 Percent: comScore</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:14:18 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Research firm comScore has released new data showing big growth in mobile health information access in the United States.   -  A new MobiLens report from digital market intelligence firm comScore reveals that the number of people accessing health information on their mobile devices has grown by 125 percent over the previous year.

During a three-month average period ending in November 2011, 16.9 million users accessed hea...]]></description>
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<item><title>Happtique Launches Certification Program for Mobile Health Apps</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:56:50 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A certification program by the Happtique mobile health application marketplace will evaluate mobile health apps for functionality and security.   -  Happtique, an online mobile
health application marketplace, has announced it will develop a certification
program to vet thousands of mobile applications that doctors, nurses and
patients use.
The company  hosts a
multiplatform application store for hospitals, continuing care facilities and
do...]]></description>
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<item><title>Microsoft HealthVault's Survival Uncertain With Advent of GE Joint Venture</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:48:58 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[With Microsoft forming a joint venture with GE and the extinction of the Google Health portal, analysts see an uncertain future for HealthVault.   -  As Microsoft prepares to
move its Amalga health intelligence software into a joint
venture with GE, analysts see an uncertain future for the HealthVault
personal health record (PHR) platform, which remains with Microsoft. 
With Google announcing in
June 2011 that it would close down its Google...]]></description>
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<item><title>Alcatel-Lucent Shows Telehealth, Public Safety Vehicle Concepts at CES</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:15:31 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[At CES, Alcatel-Lucent is demonstrating its TeleConsult and Striker public safety vehicle concepts, incorporating a Boston Life Labs telehealth platform and Vidyo video conferencing.   -  Alcatel-Lucent highlighted innovations in health care and first-response vehicles from its ng (next generation) Connect Program during the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week.
Comprising 125 members, ng Connect brings companies together from  several industries to de...]]></description>
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<item><title>Independa Brings Health Cloud for the Elderly to LG TVs</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 01:15:17 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[At CES, Independa introduced cloud-based elderly health monitoring and social engagement services on LG TVs and a new medical reminder system over telephone lines.   -  Independa, a provider of remote monitoring
technology for the elderly, and LG's Zenith division  announced at the 2012
International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that they're  bringing
senior health monitoring to commercial televisions.  LG's
ProCentric  displays will run Independa's  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Qualcomm to Fund $10 Million X Prize to Develop Health 'Tricorder'</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:58:23 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In his CES keynote, Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs announced a $10 million X Prize for a team that can design a health device modeled after the &quot;Tricorder&quot; gadget from &quot;Star Trek.&quot;   -  At the 2012 International Consumer
Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Qualcomm and the nonprofit X Prize Foundation
announced the Tricorder X Prize contest to award $10 million to a team
that can develop a handheld device to diagnose a patient's health.
The Qualcomm Foundation, the
chip maker's phi...]]></description>
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