No surprise here, but maybe some of that stimulus money could change the story for 2010?
According to a study conducted by Healthcare Informatics Research Series: 71 percent of hospitals surveyed said budget allocations for IT are expected to be smaller this year than in 2008. NCR, a global technology company, commissioned the study.
That said, a full 26 percent of hospitals surveyed do not...
GigaOM (via BusinessWeek) published a thorough trend piece on wireless medicine this morning that outlines some of the top emerging telemedicine 2.0 companies in the mHealth space today: CardioNet, Triage Wireless and Proteus Biomedical. The companies are favorites in the San Diego wireless medicine scene, which is a veritable hotbed of mHealth activity.
As expected, the Medical Records Institute seems to have folded. We heard whisperings of lay-offs at the MRI and now a press release from the mHealth Initiation (mHI) today announces that the MRI's founder and CEO Peter Waegemann is moving from the MRI to the new mHI.
"It's time to put our energy into the new and exciting field of cell phones in healthcare. This is where the action is. This is...
New York-based Phreesia, which provides a free patient-intake solution for physicians' waiting rooms, raised $11.6 million in venture capital. The company's third round of funding was led by BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners, which has a $116 million war chest into which eleven independent BlueCross and BlueShield companies have committed capital.
According to various news reports from Washington, President Obama is mulling whether to appoint Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius as secretary of the health and human services (HHS) department.
A mobile software company based in Tulsa, Oklahoma told their local news station they stand to gain a "substantial" amount of business because of the more than $19 billion allocated for healthcare I.T. spending in the federal stimulus plan. The company, called Anyware Mobile Solutions offers its Reform XT mobile-centered solution to any business looking to cut back on workflow and increase...
Even though the FDA recently began an open dialog with the wireless medical device community over mHealth regulation, enforcement of federal quality regulations at labs that develop medical devices has been scaled back by the FDA, according to a recent report by the Project on Government Oversight.
Justin Goforth, Whitman-Walker Clinic
While the more than $19 billion stimulus funds for healthcare I.T. don't specify it--they will help mHealth, PHR providers and health monitoring devices generate up to $460 million in revenue come 2013, according to a recent report by Parks Associates. The key is to target the disease management (DM) industry.
