Health Information Technology News

Eclipsys and Microsoft Form Strategic Alliance to Make Enterprise Health IT More Open and Powerful (redOrbit)
Eclipsys Corp. (Nasdaq: ECLP) and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) today announced they have signed an alliance agreement to deliver the choice and flexibility that hospitals need and want to improve health information technology (HIT) efficiencies. Breaking with the tradition of closed, proprietary systems, the two companies will offer the market tightly integrated health IT solutions designed …

Eclipsys and Microsoft Form Strategic Alliance to Make Enterprise Health IT More Open and Powerful (redOrbit)
Eclipsys Corp. (Nasdaq: ECLP) and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) today announced they have signed an alliance agreement to deliver the choice and flexibility that hospitals need and want to improve health information technology (HIT) efficiencies. Breaking with the tradition of closed, proprietary systems, the two companies will offer the market tightly integrated health IT solutions designed …

Acumen Solutions Wins Health And Human Services Contract For Cloud Computing Services In Support Of Electronic Health … (EnterpriseContentManagementConnection-ECM)
Acumen Solutions, a leading business and technology consulting firm that specializes in bringing cloud computing solutions to government agencies and large enterprises, has been selected to provide a cloud-computing CRM and Project Management solution to the US Department of Health & Human Services – Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC).

Locus Technologies Receives Fourth Environmental Business Journal Award In Information Technology (PollutionOnline)
Locus Technologies, the industry leader in Cloud Computing-based environmental compliance and information management software, today announced that it has received a 2009 Business Achievement Award in Information Technology (IT) from the Environmental Business Journal

Locus Technologies Receives Fourth Environmental Business Journal Award in Information Technology (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwire – 02/22/10) – Locus Technologies, the industry leader in Cloud Computing-based environmental compliance and information management software, today announced that it has received a 2009 Business Achievement Award in Information Technology (IT) from the Environmental Business Journal (EBJ). This award recognizes Locus for significantly expanding its client base and …

Keys And Obstacles To e-health In Low Income Countries (Medical News Today)
In an essay in the February 2010 issue of Health Affairs, a special issue of the journal devoted to global e-health, William Tierney, M.D., of Indiana University School of Medicine and the Regenstrief Institute, and colleagues, who like Dr. Tierney have significant experience in the development of workable health information technology systems in low-income countries, identify critical steps …

Czech Demand For Information Technology Is Expected To Return To Positive Growth In 2010 (OfficialWire)
Czech demand for information technology is expected to return to positive growth in 2010 after spending was affected adversely last year by the eurozone and global slowdown.

Nelson: More than $6 million in stimulus money to update health information technology (McCook Daily Gazette)
WASHINGTON — Today, Nebraska’s Senator Ben Nelson welcomed an announcement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that CIMRO in Nebraska will receive more than $6.6 million to assist health professionals in updating their use of information technology, which can help reduce the cost of health care.

Kentucky awarded $10 million to bolster health information technology (Louisville Courier-Journal)
The federal government has awarded Kentucky $10 million in economic stimulus money to enhance the state’s health information technology efforts.

Mass. health IT attracts $26M in federal funds (Mass High Tech: The Journal of New England Technology)
Massachusetts has pulled in $25.6 million in federal funding for work in health information technology $15 million to support electronic health records implementation and $10.6 million for a secure health information network to be built in Massachusetts.