Healthcare IT

SAP AG has unveiled a patient relationship management service offering that the company designed to help healthcare providers address patient requirements. The integrated tool contains patient administration and billing features from the SAP Patient Management application, SAP said Wednesday. Martin Kopp, vice president of industry business services for healthcare providers at SAP, said the company […] More

IBM has built a cloud-based computing infrastructure to house KPJ Healthcare Berhad‘s medical records and administrative data from at least 20 hospitals in Malaysia and five overseas medical facilities. The healthcare provider aims to consolidate and centralize its information technology infrastructure in order to connect with other services across the network, IBM said Monday. “By moving our IT […] More

Dr. Harry Greenspun, senior adviser for Deloitte’s Center for Health Solutions, says healthcare will soon catch up with other sectors and believes wearable devices and other technologies will play significant role. In an interview with Federal News Radio, Greenspun identified interoperability as a challenge to technology adoption in the health sector. He told host John […] More

Leidos will maintain and update software the Department of Veterans Affairs uses at seven facilities to fill and ship approximately 117 million prescriptions per year. The company said Monday that the potential three-year, $12 million contract also covers work to integrate and standardize the Consolidated Mail Outpatient Pharmacy‘s production systems. Steve Comber, president of Leidos’ health group, said the company will […] More

SGI Corp. has won a contract to work with two hospitals on efforts on projects related to real-time diagnostic imaging and medical research. The company will use its high performance computing and big data products to update applications that the Center for Advanced Medical Imaging Sciences uses to research medical diagnostic imaging technology, the company […] More

Under ConvergeHEALTH by Deloitte‘s rapid learning network, Forest Laboratories will collaborate with Intermountain Healthcare to research outcomes by using an analytics platform designed to generate healthcare services insights. Deloitte said Monday the collaborative project initially focused on respiratory diseases and will deploy OutcomesMiner on electronic medical records to establish healthcare outcomes data and develop new products and treatments based on them. “At ConvergeHEALTH […] More

Boston Medical Center has transitioned its database environment to an Oracle-built application in a move to consolidate its health data management. LCN Technology, a Gold level member of Oracle’s PartnerNetwork, has worked to assist the medical center implement the database appliance with Oracle database and application clusters, Oracle said Tuesday. Boston Medical Center aims to […] More

HP Enterprise Services will help configure and implement a new Medicaid management system for the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing under a five-year, $116.9 million contract. As Colorado’s Medicaid fiscal agent, the company will also manage maintenance and upgrade work for the Medicaid Management Information System that is based on HP’s interChange Healthcare platform, HP said Tuesday. “The […] More