Revolution Health CEO and AOL co-founder Steve Case compared health IT skeptics with those who downplayed the development of the Internet in the 1980s. He said that empowering and engaging consumers is key to accelerating health care technology adoption. Healthcare IT News.
According to a report, remote care technology will drive the market for wireless-based medical devices and applications. The report examined telehealth technologies aimed at seniors, remote care and diagnostics, and the consumer electronics industry's increasing market control. Healthcare IT News.
A 2007 Internal Revenue Service memo said that not-for-profit hospitals could help physicians purchase interoperable electronic health record systems without jeopardizing their tax-exempt status. Hospitals must make the technology and associated services available to all affiliated physicians. Modern Healthcare.
Brief reports on business deals and developments from the past week: McKesson acquires Vivalong Technologies, a vendor of Web-based IT systems; Eclipsys integrated its hospital information systems with AtStaff's personnel and resource management software