InteractiveMD is expanding its remote patient monitoring system with a video component. Now, Telemedicine Consulting Network doctors will examine patients on camera around the clock. – InteractiveMD, a telehealth provider, is preparing to launch a video conferencing upgrade to its 24-hour telemedicine platform on Aug. 18 that allows doctors to conduct live video examinations remotely and on [...]

Collaborative Care gathers and presents patients’ health data from multiple sources to create a detailed, up-to-date record that can be updated in real time to support clinical and emergency health care decisions. – IBM said Aug. 5 that it has joined up with the Aetna insurance company’s health IT division, ActiveHealth Management, to launch a new cloud-based patient-records service [...]

With its Customer Experience Platform, Angel aims to authenticate phone conversations for doctors, patients and pharmaceutical sales reps using voice biometrics. The SAAS service is used by pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer and AstraZeneca, companies in the financial industry such as Bank of America and retail chains such as Barnes & Noble and Best Buy. – Angel, a provider of on-demand, [...]

IBM is launching a $100 million health care IT research campaign that will work to develop new medical technology on multiple fronts. The program includes hiring medical professionals to work alongside IBMs IT researchers. – IBM is investing $100 million over the next three years to boost its efforts in medical research. The company will hire medical doctors, nurses, clinicians, social scientists [...]

South Shore Hospital in Massachusetts reveals that backup files containing patient and employee information have disappeared. An investigation to determine what happened to the data is under way. – A Massachusetts hospital is under scrutiny after hundreds of thousands of patient and employee records went missing earlier this year. The missing files underscore the problems health care providers [...]

GE’s Centricity Enterprise 6.9 helps health care providers meet new meaningful use guidelines for electronic health records. It also offers an integrated workflow for inpatient and outpatient use. – Following the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ July announcement of requirements for quot;meaningful use quot; of electronic health records, GE Healthcare is rolling out [...]

Electronic medical records, or EMRs, are the top priority for health care IT workers, according to an Embarcadero Technologies survey. Other areas of concern include data warehouses and health information exchanges. – Electronic medical records, or EMRs, are the top priority for IT professionals working in the health care industry, according to a new survey by Embarcadero Technologies, a San [...]

The latest Hospitals & Health Networks survey names the Most Wired hospitals and shows physicians are making progress on EMRs and electronic data management. Still, barriers to implementation remain. – Hospitals amp; Health Networks, a publication of the American Hospital Association’s Health Forum division, has announced its annual list of the Most Wired hospitals in its July [...]

The results of a Spyglass Consulting Group report show that 94 percent of physicians are using smartphones. However, 78 percent of physicians reported they have difficulty with timely smartphone communication with colleagues. – A study by Menlo Park, Calif.-based Spyglass Consulting Group revealed a fragmented smartphone landscape among health care professionals, yet 94 percent of physicians [...]

IT service provider CSC’s online forum lets health care IT professionals share notes on how to achieve meaningful use of electronic records to qualify for incentives under the Obama administration’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. IBM’s Initiate software arm is also focused on providing software for health care information exchanges to help them adhere to the federal mandate [...]