HP launched a healthcare affiliate program to provide customers specialized equipment such as medical charts, digital signage and clinical reference technology. HP said it formed the HP Healthcare Alliance program with companies such as Quest Diagnostics, Greenway Medical Technologies and Central Logic. Independent software providers combine their offerings with HP’s hardware through the alliance. HP and its partners [...]
Dell and Siemens formed an alliance to deliver cloud-based vendor-neutral image archiving and sharing solutions for healthcare clinicians. Dell said Siemens will incorporate Dell’s clinical data management software into its healthcare solution for image sharing and archiving. Dell said its cloud clinical archive solution will support Siemens’ healthcare cloud computing center. James Coffin, Dell’s vice [...]
VMware is partnering with a Harris Corp.-John Hopkins Medicine joint venture to develop a cloud computing service for healthcare providers to access medical images. VMware said Peake Healthcare Innovations will work with VMware and Intel to provide healthcare workers secure access to patient images. Intel will provide cloud technologies to support the Peake cloud solution platform. Frank [...]
Accenture released a study analyzing how countries and health systems apply systematic approaches to healthcare information technology. In the 16-page report, authors found nearly 59 percent of U.S. physicians enter patient notes electronically and 54 percent send prescription orders to pharmacies electronically. Accenture said in a release that authors conducted more than 160 interviews with healthcare [...]
Maximus has won a potential $43.2 million contract to provide enrollment and accounting services for Ontario’s drug benefit program, Maximus announced Wednesday. The contract with Ontario’s Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care has three base years and seven one-year options. Maximus will process applications, notifications, renewals and receipts for the program which covers nearly 3 million Ontario [...]
The National Institutes of Health is seeking industry input as NIH plans a new governmentwide health information technology contract. According to a post on FedBizOpps, NIH said the Chief Information Officer – NEW contract would be a follow up to the Electronic Commodity Store II contract. NIH plans for the CIO-NEW contract to complement the [...]
Intel Corp. and the United Nations Population Fund have unveiled a joint effort to educate 1 million healthcare workers worldwide through technology. The UN said on Monday the initiative aims to use software and technical assistance to reduce the number of deaths related to childbirth. The UN said Intel will work with governments to increase [...]
