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Author Photo Obama Allocating $600M To Health Centers
Dec 10, 2009
Posted by Mitch Wagner

President Barack Obama allocated almost $600 million to build community health centers and implement electronic medical records, part of the $787 billion stimulus bill. The White House framed the funding as means of adding jobs to the economy, and overhaul the nation's health system.

Author Photo Hospital Goes Mobile For Holiday Fundraising
Dec 7, 2009
Posted by Marianne Kolbasuk McGee

Non-profit organizations count on the giving, holiday spirit for end-of-year fundraising campaigns, but with the tight economy, generosity is being rationed by many people. Children's Hospital Boston is hoping a new text messaging campaign underway will drive smaller donations that will add up all year.

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Windows Phones and Unified Communications: How Windows Phones Combine Email, Messaging, Voice, and Presence in a Secure, Collaborative Environment
Increasingly, teams consist of geographically and departmentally dispersed people who work asynchronously. This means team members can be doing their work any time, any place. A key enabler to this mo...

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Improving Customer Retention and Satisfaction
It is 5 times more expensive to acquire a new customer than to retain an old one. Good customer support is crucial when it comes to retaining customers and driving more sales, but how do operations de...

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Microsoft To Acquire Healthcare Specialist

December 10, 2009
Sentillion buy gives software maker a range of identity and access management tools for hospital IT systems.

Fujitsu To Offer Cloud Services

December 8, 2009
The company enters the ranks of cloud competitors, supplying compute infrastructure as a service through its expanded data centers.

McKesson Unveils Pharmacy Automation System

December 8, 2009
The system is designed to improve dosage accuracy and patient safety while saving pharmacists' time.

Demand For Health IT Talent Rising

December 7, 2009
Robert Half Technology and Manpower among staffing firms reporting that projected demand by clients for health IT skills will rise early next year.

Feds Offer $235 Million For Health IT Leadership

December 2, 2009
A new grant program will help leading communities advance and track their use of health IT to improve quality of care and become role models to other communities.

Remote Monitoring Yields Healthier Patients

November 20, 2009
Nursing service uses wireless devices to monitor homebound patients and get data to doctors faster, reducing hospitalizations by more than 50%.

Medicine Bottles Get Net Connection

November 20, 2009
A new pill bottle cap with a wireless Internet connection flashes when it's time to take a pill and even calls forgetful patients with reminders.