CareTech Solutions, an information technology and Web products and services provider for more than 180 U.S. hospitals, today unveiled its iDoc™ Savings Calculator, at the Michigan Health Information Management Association’s annual meeting. Located on the company’s website, the online tool will estimate annual savings for an organization after it implements the company’s document imaging and management solution. “CareTech Solutions’ iDoc Savings Calculator helps hospitals isolate costs
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Video: HealthCollaborate
HealthCollaborate™ is designed to enable clinicians globally to form/join communities of providers and to securely communicate, exchange patient data, collaborate on patient cases, share ideas, trade documents, send and receive messages containing PHI such as referrals, images and results, create discussion forums, share knowledge, ask questions from colleagues and more. HealthCollaborate™ enables providers to connect to their patients and securely send health education, messages,
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Cool Healthcare Tech Video: Mummy Mystery
GE Healthcare collaborates with the Milwaukee Public Museum to reveal dramatic details of three mummies from ancient Egypt and Peru. GE's state-of-the-art CT750 HD provided comprehensive high-quality scans that will help the museum determine how the mummies lived and died -- and even identify possible evidence of ancient brain surgery!
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Video: The Intersection of Health IT, Cybersecurity and Cloud Computing
This is a great video from Dr. Robert Wah, Chief Medical Officer for CSC, that provides his views on the future of health IT at Innoventure 2011.
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Day in the Life: Management Consulting
I was recently asked to participate in a "Day in the Life" series on HealthcareITCentral to give aspiring professionals in the health IT industry an idea of the type of careers within this exciting field. Special thanks to Gwen Darling from HealthcareITCentral.com D for the opportunity to participate in this great series on her site. To view my "Day in the Life" please click here.
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Breaking News: CSC to acquire iSOFT Group for $188 million
U.S. technology services provider Computer Sciences Corp (CSC) said it would acquire healthcare software provider iSOFT Group Ltd for about $188 million.Computer Sciences will offer iSOFT shareholders A$0.17 a share, 224 percent more than iSOFT's March 24 close on the Australian Stock Exchange."When completed, this acquisition will be a critical step in the expansion of our global healthcare business," CSC Chief Executive Michael Laphen said in a statement.Australia-based iSOFT Group,
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Video: HIMSS11 Year In Review
In its 50th year HIMSS takes a look back at the tremendous advances in health IT, as well as the future of care and technology through the perspectives of innovative healthcare organizations.
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HIMSS Launches Meaningful Use OneSource
Providing current and vital resources for implementation of health information technology to improve patient care, HIMSS continues to add new information to Meaningful Use OneSource, an online repository of hundreds of documents, tools and links to other knowledge available on the Internet. Users can go to www.himss.org/meaningfuluseto find this meaningful use compendium vetted by content experts before its inclusion on the website. HIMSS developed and introduced Meaningful Use OneSource in
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Live@HIMSS News Coverage
For daily HIMSS news coverage, please click here
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Career Spotlight
It sounds too good to be true. One highly touted job seeker was hit with a perfect financial services storm: job offers from Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase and Blackrock — all at the same time.This was the situation facing one client of career coach Connie Thanasoulis-Cerrachio, a partner at SixFigureStart and former head of staffing for Merrill Lynch Asset Management.Is it an embarrassment of riches to be presented with such wonderful opportunities in the wake of a global financial crisis?
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