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Google shows how mobile health care apps can sync with their personal health record

Jul 29, 2010 by
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Google shows how data from patients can be collected from everyday tasks, and then uploaded into their personal health record, Google Health.

Microsoft HealthVault Community Connect and the compelling results from their study with the Cleveland Clinic

Mar 02, 2010 by
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This is part of iMedicalApps coverage of the HIMSS 2010 Conference in Atlanta, Georgia A common cause of annoyance for patients is filling out the same forms over and over again.  While just about every adult has experienced this issue, the deeper problem is a single patient will almost always have more than one physician or caregiver. This means the repetitive form filling is really the tip of a much more serious problem of data in silos, with each physician [Read more]

Microsoft Potentially Moving to Major Healthcare Partnership Related to Electronic Medical Records – Apple and Google Beware!

Jan 23, 2010 by
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As healthcare systems and individual practices rush to adopt electronic medical records, health information technology companies have experienced unprecedented growth – Eclipsys’ net income grew by 140% to nearly $100 million in 2008. With billions of dollars allocated to electronic health records in the 2009 stimulus package, the health information technology sector is likely to experience even more growth as these funds are released and the economy turns around. But even though these electronic medical record systems proliferate, one key [Read more]