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The Mayo Clinic has created a Healthy Aging and Independent Living (HAIL) Lab, aiming to pilot new services and technologies from companies such as Best Buy, which was announced as the "founding consortium member" of the clinic on Monday.The Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation is collaborating with Mayo Clinic's Robert and Arlene Kogod Center for Aging and the Charter House, a continuing care retirement community in Rochester, in creating the HAIL Lab to support "aging in place" - helping seniors remain at home, healthy and independent.

The Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS), the American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE) and AT&T announced Monday an mhealth initiative to deliver diabetes self-management training.The project will deliver diabetes self-management training (DSMT) project will be launched within an underserved minority community in Dallas, Texas.

A novelty Or the wave of the future MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - In what its CEO bills as a development that "could finally drive global usage and adoption" of the technology, drchrono, which makes electronic health records for iPads, received meaningful use certification as an ambulatory EHR earlier this summer.

Personal health records may not be catching on as quickly as their advocates would hope, but one segment of the population clearly benefits from having them - those with chronic or serious illnesses or diseases.With that in mind, MedeFile International of Boca Raton, Fla., has signed an agreement with ConnectCare3 to offer the company's Internet-enabled PHR to ConnectCare3's patients and employees.