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Veterans Affairs Department health leaders showed off a wide range of remote medical offerings Tuesday at their first Connected Health Showcase, an event designed to highlight telehealth advances but also tout the department's place as a leader in cutting-edge healthcare delivery.
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Accenture Federal Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Accenture, the global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, has announced that it will acquire ASM Research.
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Consumer advocates and attorneys are lining up against a proposal to allow patients requesting their own medical records to be charged up to four times what they pay now.
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Exton, Pa., healthcare communication technology company HIT Application Solutions has hired Dr. Betty Jo Bomentre as chief medical information officer.
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The Verizon Foundation and the Children's Health Fund have launched an initiative to bring mobile clinics throughout the United States, beginning with a telehealth project involving the University of Miami.
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AMC Health, a New York-based telehealth company, has named Michael O'Brien as president of its clinical trials division.
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Accolade, a company that provides healthcare consumer services for employers, hired James Snook as its first chief technology officer, effective immediately.
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As more of Alaska's healthcare providers transition to electronic medical records, a health information exchange network is being lauded as better for doctors and patients, but also has its share of controversy over privacy.
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An elite hacker who was due to demonstrate how heart implants could be hacked has died unexpectedly in San Francisco. Barnaby Jack died on Thursday, the city's medical examiner's office told Reuters, but did not give more details. He had been due to give a presentation into medical device...
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Hospitals—even those with loads of experience using health information technology—are still having a tough time using electronic health-record systems to gather and report clinical quality measures, according to a new report summarizing a study by the American Hospital Association.
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