Healthcare IT

UnitedHealth Group's recently announced partnership with Cisco will build a national telehealth network, which integrates leading health care and remote video technology systems to provide patients access to physicians and specialists when in-person visits are not possible.

Lebanon, N.H.-based Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center has received the 4th Annual ECRI Institute Health Devices Achievement Award for an innovative patient monitoring project that uses the Masimo SET pulse oximetry and Masimo Patient SafetyNet remote monitoring and clinician notification system.

A confidential draft report has found that the United Kingdom's new electronic health record database contains many errors and omissions that put patient safety at risk.

A pilot project at the Cleveland Clinic has found that patients with chronic diseases manage them more effectively when they use medical devices to regularly send health information to physicians.

Healthcare nurse call systems vendor Rauland-Borg has teamed with Visonic Technologies, a provider of scalable Active RFID/RTLS based safety, security and management solutions for the healthcare industry, to integrate Elpas RTLS technology with the Responder 5 Nurse Call System.

AnyDATA Corp. has launched the DTW series of low cost embedded CDMA and GSM/HSPA modules designed for mobile Internet devices. Measuring only 21mm x 22mm x 4.5mm--smaller than a quarter and weighing only 4 grams--the wireless modules serve as the communications platform for a wide array of connected devices, including mobile healthcare devices.

Fifty-nine percent of respondents to a poll conducted by Case Western University in Cleveland believe that Twitter will become an integral part of the way doctors communicate with patients and other medical professionals.

Emota, a Menlo Park, Calif.-based tech start-up that develops software and services for care of elderly patients, has unveiled its new "emotional networking" product, which company officials says will help clinicians, caregivers and families support wellness for the aged, enabling connectedness over long distances.

The first winner of the Motion Excellence in Mobile Point of Care Award is Springfield, IL-based St. John's Hospital. Motion Computing, a provider of integrated mobile computing solutions, announced the creation of new award at HIMSS10. St. John's, a Motion C5 mobile clinical assistant (MCA) user since 2008, has deployed a flexible mobility solution that supports the way clinicians work.

The FCC’s National Broadband Plan makes 11 recommendations for using high-speed broadband networks to increase the use of electronic health records, health data exchange and telemedicine.