The telecom industry makes its money delivering bits and bytes. Therefore, it is not too surprising that the two major players here in the US, AT&T and Verizon are placing some bets in the healthcare sector. Primary among those bets are enabling telehealth (both have been perennial sponsors of the Partners Connected for Health Symposium), [...]
Posts Tagged ‘AT&T’
Telecom’s Tepid Plays in HIE Market
Posted in EHR, EMR, HIE, HIT, RHIO, tagged AT&T, Healthcare Community Online, Verizon on July 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Covisint Leverages Mfg Infrastructure for Healthcare
Posted in consumer health, EMR, Google, Microsoft, Privacy, RHIO, Security, telehealth, tagged AT&T, Covisint, Dossia on July 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Covisint is one of those companies that shows up in a market, seemingly from nowhere, strikes a couple of partnerships many wonder, where did they come from? In February 2008, Covisint had a co-announcement with AT&T on being selected by the State of Tennessee to be the infrastructure backbone for the state’s eHealth initiative (Vanderbilt [...]
AT&T, Microsoft and Covisnt Partner on Data Exchange
Posted in EMR, Microsoft, PHR, tagged AT&T, Covisint, health information exchange, HIE, telehealth on June 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This just in, Microsoft’s HealthVault announced a partnership with AT&T and Covisint to enable healthcare data exchange across a highly distributed network. While I have not had a chance to really dig into this announcement, it does appear, at least on the surface, to be quite an interesting partnership. One of the most interesting aspects [...]
Coming to a Cell Near You – TxtMed
Posted in PHR, Security, telehealth, telemedicine, tagged AT&T, cellphone, healthcare delivery, PHR, Sprint, telehealth, Verizon on November 20, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Today’s Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has a fairly long article, by their standards, (section D, pg 1) on the use of cellphone text messaging to deliver health related information. Unfortunately, the article tries to cover too much ground going from texting for sex education info for teens in California to reminders for an appointment at [...]
