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Intelerad Acquires Life Image, Establishing the Clear Medical Image Exchange Market Leader and Path to a Global Open Image Exchange Network

Healthcare IT Today

“Bringing together two of the industry’s leading image exchange providers further solidifies Intelerad’s commitment to helping clinicians and patients lead the revolution in imaging from a world of siloed PACS to a future of interoperable image exchange.”. Leading healthcare systems have been pushing for seamless interoperability. “At

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Digital health is ready for its second act. Will it deliver on its promise to empower patients and providers?

Redox

And as a company leading the charge to improve interoperability, we’ve observed that some lessons learned in the startup world may help our healthcare industry go where it wants and needs to go faster and without the pain of earlier transitions. Laying the foundation for Health IT.

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The Tech Giants are Coming for Healthcare

Lloyd Price

By June more than 500 hospitals were connected to the Health Records app representing 50 health systems. This summer, Apple opened Health Records API to health IT innovators to enable them to create apps that utilize the data. But how easy will it actually be? Several of them have made efforts in the past and failed.

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Electronic Prescribing for Controlled Substances Set to Take Off

Healthcare IT Today

History of EPCS Kyle Zebley, head of public policy American Telemedicine Association (ATA) , says that Congress called on the DEA to implement a policy for a special controlled substance registration process in 2008. This requirement languished for the past 15 years, probably because the DEA had a multitude of competing priorities.

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How Do Patient Portals and Personal Health Records Differ?

Lloyd Price

Patient portals and personal health records (PHRs) have both received considerable praise for their role in increasing patient engagement. However, distinguishing between the two forms of health IT tools can often be difficult, due to nebulous definitions and overlapping features.