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GE, Intel launch new telehealth joint venture

Top Stories | Monday, August 02 2010
GE Healthcare and Intel have launched a joint venture to create a new healthcare company focused on telehealth and independent living, slated to be operational by the end of 2010.
 

EMC introduces new storage, expansion options

New Products | Monday, July 19 2010
EMC has released two new deduplication storage systems and expansion options, including the EMC Data Domain DD670 and the EMC Disk Library 5000 series.
 

AHIP: Remote health management improves outcomes, prelim data suggests

Conference News | Friday, June 11 2010
A combination of remote patient monitoring and traditional nurse care management has improved outcomes and reduced avoidable hospital admissions among Medicare beneficiaries with chronic heart failure (CHF), according to preliminary study results from Aetna and Intel.
 

GE’s healthyimagination turns one, with $700M in R&D

Industry News | Monday, May 24 2010
General Electric has released the inaugural annual report for healthymagination, its business strategy for sustainable healthcare, which detailed the milestones since its May 2009 kickoff, including the 24 products and services launched and a $700 million investment in research & development (R&D).
 

Intel survey: Telehealth usage to increase over the next decade

Tuesday, May 18 2010
The U.S. healthcare delivery will undergo dramatic changes over the next 10 years through the adoption of telehealth, according to a survey of health and IT professionals sponsored by Intel, and released during the annual meeting of the American Telemedicine Association in San Antonio. 
 

Report: Remote health management market to grow to $3.6B by 2012

Industry News | Tuesday, March 23 2010
Remote health management is the fastest growing segment of the home health management market and promises to improve health and cut healthcare costs, according to a report from management consulting firm Scientia Advisors. However, the market will only reach its full potential if health insurers adopt reimbursement policies encouraging greater physician adoption, the report noted.
 

HIMSS: Intel launches Mayo study, educational web portal

Conference News | Tuesday, March 09 2010
At the recent HIMSS10 conference in Atlanta, Intel announced its patient monitoring study with Mayo Clinic and introduced its Start Now initiative, a web portal that contains text and video statements by healthcare leaders about what they are doing to change the future of healthcare today.
 

GE, Intel deal crosses the pond

Partnerships & Alliances | Tuesday, January 05 2010
GE Healthcare and Intel have expanded their sales and marketing agreement for the Intel Health Guide to include the U.K. GE already markets the Intel Health Guide in the U.S.
 

Vital Images tuned for Intel's Xeon processors

Partnerships & Alliances | Monday, November 09 2009
Advanced visualization and analysis solutions company Vital Images and computer hardware developer Intel have merged technologies to decrease processing time for large clinical data sets.
 

Vanguard joins PHR consortium

Industry News | Friday, August 21 2009
Vanguard Health Systems is the newest member of the Dossia Consortium, a non-profit organization comprised of nine other U.S. employers that give employees access to their health data through personal health records (PHRs). The Dossia Founders now include Applied Materials, AT&T, BP America, Cardinal Health, Intel, Pitney Bowes, Abraxis BioScience, sanofi-aventis U.S., Wal-Mart and Vanguard.
 

Intel adds to patient monitoring system

New Products | Monday, July 20 2009
Intel has enhanced the Intel Health Guide by adding additional connectivity options to the patient monitoring system.
 

Health IT players form EHR Stimulus Alliance for physician education

Industry News | Thursday, May 14 2009
Allscripts, in conjunction with Nuance Communications, Cisco, Citrix, Dell, Intel and Intuit Microsoft, is co-launching the EHR Stimulus Alliance, aimed at educating 500,000 U.S. physicians about opportunities aligned with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 by delivering virtual and physical education programs.
 

FEATURE: GE pumps $6B into new healthcare initiatives

Thursday, May 07 2009
GE today launched a new healthcare business strategy, healthymagination, dedicating $6 billion to preventive care and consumer-driven initiatives. The new strategy was announced in a live webcast, hosted by Jeff Immelt, chairman and CEO of GE.
 

GE, Intel to invest $250M in healthcare remote monitoring technologies

Top Stories | Thursday, April 02 2009
GE and Intel have formed an alliance to market and develop home-based health technologies to remotely monitor seniors and patients with chronic conditions, according to an announcement made at a joint press conference in New York City today, hosted by Intel's CEO and President Paul Otellini and GE's CEO and Board Chairman Jeffrey Immelt.
 

Intel chairman pushes for personal health records, remote consultation payment

Conference News | Tuesday, November 11 2008
One of the answers to contain skyrocketing healthcare costs is to set up an IT infrastructure that allows consumers to proactively monitor their health. The key for such a system to take hold, however, is for the government to reimburse physicians for “remote house calls,” according to Craig Barrett, PhD, chairman of the board of Intel, who gave the keynote address Sunday night at the American Heart Association (AHA) Scientific Sessions in New Orleans.
 

Dell, Intel, Motion Computing join for healthcare IT app

Top Stories | Wednesday, October 01 2008
Dell, Intel and Motion Computing have jointly launched a new service to assess, design and validate the quality and coverage of wireless networks for healthcare information workflow.
 

CCHIT names new commissioners, set to launch HIE program

Industry News | Wednesday, September 17 2008
The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) has named eight new commissioners and re-appointed five existing commissioners to serve two-year terms on its 21-member board beginning in October.
 
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Feature: U.S. needs national strategy to curb imaging overutilization

Medical imaging overutilization--a growing concern in the U.S.--exposes patients to unnecessary radiation, while also adding to rising healthcare costs, according to a study published online Aug. 24 in Radiology. In an interview, William R. Hendee, PhD, lead author, reviewed various methods by which medical imaging could be curtailed.

Radiology: Prelim study shows CE breast CT outperforms CT, mammo

Dedicated contrast-enhanced (CE) breast CT delivered significantly improved conspicuity of malignant breast lesions, including ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), compared with unenhanced breast CT and mammography, according to a study published in the September issue of Radiology.

Radiology: Rad role may evolve as image-guided biopsies trend up

CT, ultrasound and MRI have helped shift biopsy techniques away from more invasive approaches toward image-guided percutaneous techniques, according to a study published in the September issue of Radiology. The trend toward less-invasive approaches translates into enhanced safety and efficiency and could lead to more interaction between patients and radiologists.

CMS Webinar: Incentive payments to offset EHR adoption, not reimburse

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) EHR incentive payments are not considered reimbursement for money expended on EHR technology, but are intended to offset the cost associated with adoption and ongoing meaningful use, according to CMS during an Aug. 12 webinar.

CMS webinar: Eligible professionals can expect EHR incentives in 2011

Funding incentives for EHR use is the main goal of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) meaningful use initiative, and there are incentive programs for both hospitals and eligible professionals, according to Elizabeth Holland, health insurance specialist at the Department of Health and Human Services, who spoke during a CMS-sponsored webinar Aug. 8.

Webinar: Stage 1 of meaningful use is for quality reporting acclimation

Stage 1 requirements for meaningful use incentives aim to strike a balance between the overall goal of EHR use and widespread adoption, while avoiding added work, said Jonathan Teich, MD, PhD, chief medical informatics officer at Elsevier Health Services, during a HIMSS webinar titled “Meaningful Use: Safety and Quality of Care.”

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