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Toyota Motor Corp. is bringing high tech to healthcare as it works on a family of robots geared to lift patients and help the paralyzed walk.

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Though hospitals are eligible for billions of dollars in federal stimulus money to bring their facilities into the digital age to save money and improve the quality of health care, just one in 10 is ready to meet government standards to qualify for the funds, a new analysis shows.

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Cook Children’s Health Care System, in partnership with athenahealth, Microsoft, Sanofi Pasteur and Merck, has launched a first-of-its kind program to use of 2D barcodes on vaccines.

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Health 2.0 has the promise to change the healthcare industry,” the conference’s opening keynote speaker Mark Smith, president of the California HealthCare Foundation, told the audience on Monday.

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With hospital business requirements changing to meet the demands of healthcare reform, the medical technology industry has a stake in understanding how these changes will affect not only their own businesses, but their customers' as well. To address these issues, GHX President and CEO Bruce Johnson will lead a panel discussion entitled "A Hospital's View of the World in an Era of Healthcare Reform" at the AdvaMed 2011 MedTech Conference, September 26-28 in Washington, D.C. Read the Article>

Vista Equity Partners, a private- equity firm focused on enterprise software and technology businesses, agreed to buy Sage Group Plc’s U.S. healthcare division. Read the Article>

A new federal proposal to give all patients in the U.S. direct electronic access to their lab results could make it easier to track important health markers like cholesterol levels and the body’s response to blood thinners – – with an iPhone. Read the Article>