A Week in Review

Five Hot Trends in Healthcare Technologies

[ZDNet] The pace at which medicine and technology are converging is faster than most people realze. Today, point-of-care health technologies like tele-medicine and medical robots performing surgery in hospitals are common place. Apple iPads and other mobile devices have made their way into the exam room, and electronic medical record (EMR) vendors are following suit with compatible applications. Read full story here.


RealMed Facilitates Faster Payments by Embedding Claims Reconciliation Capabilities

[EMR and EHR News] RealMed, a leading provider of revenue cycle management solutions for health care industry, announced integration of its awarding winning capabilities with Epic. The integration provides Epic billing software clients with seamless access to RealMed’s powerful claims editing and error management tools from within the same interface used for processing claims today. Read full story here.


GlobalSign BIOWRAP Provides Healthcare, Pharmaceutical Industries with Security, Privacy and Compliance over all Digital Information

[SFGate] GlobalSign, one of the longest established Certification Authorities (CA) and specialists in online security, announced that its BIOWRAP Encrypted File system is now available to healthcare and pharmaceutical industry customers. Read full story here.