Tenet holds its financial ground; Researchers develop tech for fast data transmission to mobile devices;

> Tenet Healthcare Corp. has reported a net loss of $3 million for the third quarter of this year, more or less a stall for a company with $2.262 billion in revenues during that period. FierceHealthFinance

> Researchers have come up with a new telemedicine system, based on the Bluetooth standard, which can transfer data from patient monitors to nearby mobile devices at four times the speed of traditional Bluetooth. FierceMobileHealthcare

> Over at our blog Hospital Impact, a hospital CEO speaks about the value of spending on disease prevention rather than treatment, views he says have been influenced by his own experiences as a patient. Blog

> HHS is updating its Connect open-source software toolkit, designed to hook up disparate systems, to help providers meet "meaningful use" standards for EMRs. FierceEMR

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