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This is good, I have said the Executive Branch is moving right along with technology, can’t say the same for the House and Senate.  The House expects their wireless project to take 3 years as an example.  It looks like…

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s (RWJF) Project HealthDesign team has awarded a total of $2.4 million to five research teams that each aim to determine how patient-recorded observations of daily living (ODLs) can be captured and included into clinical care.…

If you are a regular reader here, then you know I am a Tags Fan.  This is the next phase of Microsoft Tags in working with RazCode to upload information to your Personal Health Record.  I started this post a…

At HIMMS today the winners were announced in the individual categories that were listed here.   The software vendors were Eclipsys, CADI Scientific, ASTER, NextGen and and facilities using their software.  BD

Press Release:

Awards recognize customers and partners improving health through Microsoft…

There may be some additional software issues here creating problems.  The FDA is studying reports to find out why, it is the software or perhaps an easier user interface needed, or maybe a combination of both.  

One more time we…

This is not to say that systems need to conform and have certain interoperability formats to provide physicians with a tool where they are not “taken” on their investment, but it’s been spoken many times that the insurers are the…

I first posted about the project back November of 2008 and now we are beginning to see some numbers result.  The Epic records system used by Cleveland Clinic connects to Microsoft HeatlhVault and thus the patients have the flexibility of…

There’s a lot of information coming from HIMMS today and Quest Diagnostics is offering 90 Day trials on some of their web based products.  Last year I had the opportunity to talk with Rohit Nayak, Vice President of Sales with…

HealthVault Personal Health Records and SharePoint Server will be getting much better acquainted in the 3rd quarter this year.  As you can read in the press release below, HealthVault is expanding it’s capabilities and the ability to further integrate and…

I guess it’s Mr. Grassley again here who may have clout but doesn’t understand the role of Health IT and the FDA itself is in the midst of getting up to date with technology themselves!  This goes back to what…