New AT&T Division To Promote Health IT Products and Services

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Thursday, November 04, 2010

New AT&T Division To Promote Health IT Products and Services

On Thursday, AT&T announced the formation of a new division, called AT&T ForHealth, that will work to unite several health care-related business ventures, the Dallas Morning News reports (Godinez, Dallas Morning News, 11/4).

AT&T ForHealth will focus on creating cloud-based and wireless services that will include:

Health data exchange systems;
Patient alert systems;
Picture archiving systems;
Remote monitoring systems (Mearian, Computerworld, 11/4);
Smart phone applications (Lohr, "Bits," New York Times, 11/4); and
Telemedicine systems (Computerworld, 11/4).

The new business unit also will provide technology for the health information exchanges mandated under the federal health reform law ("Bits," New York Times, 11/4).