The NHS is estimated to have spent £331 million (US$486.2 million) less than it planned last year on the £12.7 billion National Programme for IT. Spending is tied to how much suppliers have ...
When a startup called ZocDoc whose entire business is to provide a portal for people to make doctors' appointments online moved into my shared Manhattan office, I have to admit I was skeptical about ...
University of Buffalo researchers say they've found a way to use nanotechnology to fight drug addiction. Nanoparticles can be used to deliver specific molecules to the brain to turn off a gene that ...
Microsoft on Monday will unveil a new version of its software for aggregating health records that makes it easier for patients and doctors to share information electronically. The new release, ...
Local health IT professionals are open to the benefits a Google or Microsoft electronic health record (EHR), but see many challenges in implementing such an offering within the New Zealand health ...
Maureen Martin of The Heartland Institute, a think tank promoting public policy based on individual liberty, limited government and free markets, argues that the new Health Information Technology ...
Intel and General Electric have formed an alliance to market and create home-based health care technologies, in an effort to reduce health-care costs and allow elderly people to stay out of ...
Bill Gates announced a $33 million grant from his charity foundation to help fight tuberculosis in China on Wednesday, deepening his organization's involvement in the country. New tests and ...
Nortel Networks, still in bankruptcy protection from creditors, plans over the next two weeks to unveil new healthcare communications software and an updated online tool that adds the ability to ...
BioSolar's improved solar panel backsheet promises to lower the cost of making solar panels, while making that icon of green technology more environmentally friendly. And it's made from castor ...