Meaningful Use Stage 2 has a requirement that I’ve always considered to be the “cart before the horse” - patients must be able to View/Download/Transmit their data. Viewing is great - we’ve done that at BIDMC since 1999 for all patients and all data. Download makes little sense since at the moment there is nothing a patient can do with a download. Of the 2 million patients at BIDMC, not one has ever requested a download. Transmit makes even less sense since there is no place to transmit the data to...
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Looking Back At A 2014: Thermidor For Health Care Reform?
Andy Oram | EMR & EHR | December 29, 2014
As money drains out of health care reform, there are indications that the impetus for change is receding as well...
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Open Health Round-Up For 2014: Notable Articles, Reports, And Events
By Andy Oram | December 30, 2014
Even the hidebound field of health care can undergo a lot of change over the course of one year. Key health IT trends that I saw throughout 2014 are summarized in another article. Here I'll list some of the most notable articles and reports related to open source, standards, and transparency in health. Read More »
OSEHRA Update on VistA /eHMP Microsoft Azure Cloud Project
OSEHRA will be holding a webinar on Tuesday, May 16, to provide an update and discussion of the status of the development of a cloud-based version of VistA and eHMP running on Microsoft Azure. The project is sponsored by Microsoft and was announced two months ago in a statement by Don Hewitt, the Vice President of Business Operations of OSEHRA. Hewitt writes: One of our newest members, Microsoft Corporation, is sponsoring an open source project group to implement a proof of concept for VistA in the cloud...
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Rotten To The Core: Apple Stole The Idea And Name For Their New HealthKit App From Us, Claim Australian Tech Designers
Daniel Mills | Mail Online | June 4, 2014
...An Australian start-up company is considering launching legal action against US tech giant Apple, alleging it stole the name it trades under for a mobile app...
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Team Demonstrates Digital Health Platform for Department of Veterans Affairs
Press Release |
Georgia Institute of Technology |
January 31, 2017
“Liberate the data.” That was a principal design goal for a team of public-private health care technology collaborators established by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Veterans Health Administration to develop a working and scalable proof-of-concept digital health platform (DHP) to support the department’s long-term vision. The open-source project demonstrated both proven and emerging technologies for interoperability and advanced functionality innovations from both the public and private sectors...
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TENSIO™ Taps HealthKit Data to Put Anyone with High Blood Pressure in Control Latest App from Humetrix Set to Debut at Digital Health Summit at International CES
Press Release |
Humetrix |
December 17, 2014
Humetrix is set to introduce TENSIO™, the first in a suite of healthcare apps which aim to give consumers more control and better visibility into their medical conditions. TENSIO is designed for anyone who wants to measure the effects of lifestyle and prescribed medications on blood pressure.
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The Apple Platform for Wellness Arrives
By John D. Halamka, MD | September 9, 2014
Today I’m sitting at the Flint Center in Cupertino where Steve Jobs introduced the first MacIntosh...Now, 30 years later, we’re on the cusp of a different kind of revolution - the consumerization of healthcare middleware that gathers data about your body/activity from multiple sensors and consolidates it into a secure container on your personal smartphone. No cloud storage is used. Read More »
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The Pentagon Contract That Could Shape EHRs For Years To Come — Epic Pays Out To Win Friends And Influence Congress
Arthur Allen | Politico.com | October 17, 2014
GENTLEMEN (AND WOMEN) START YOUR (INTEROPERABLE) ENGINES: The Department of Defense’s $11 billion, 10-year contract for a new electronic health records system won’t just shape military health for the next decade, reports Ashley Gold, it could very well predict the future of electronic health records and their handling of interoperability. Read More »
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Three Areas Where Health Information Technology Needs to Get its House in Order
By Andy Oram | July 1, 2014
Health reform is taking off, thanks to pressure from insurers, the promise with which innovative technologies tease us for low-cost treatments, and regulatory mandates dating back to the HITECH act of 2009. Recent hopeful signs for wider adoption of health technologies include FDA forebearance from regulating consumer health apps, calls for more support for telemedicine, and new health announcements from tech giants such as Apple and Google. While technologists push forward in all these areas, we need to keep in mind that several big unsolved problems remain. Let's not get lost in the details--these major issues have to be tackled head on. Read More »
Tim Cook visits veterans and doctors at Palo Alto VA hospital, staff using iPads
Mikey Campbell | AppleInsider | August 22, 2014
Apple CEO Tim Cook on Thursday tweeted out a photo and brief message highlighting a recent visit to the Veterans Affairs hospital in Palo Alto, Calif., saying he was happy to meet with doctors who now use iPads to treat patients. Read More »
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Two Drug Firms Experiment With Use of Apple's ResearchKit
Todd R. Weiss | eWeek | July 13, 2015
Two major pharmaceutical companies are using Apple's ResearchKit open-source project in experiments aimed at helping medical researchers gain more data and fresh insights as they seek ways to battle human diseases and illnesses. Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline confirmed its work in a July 10 tweet, saying the company is "looking @ Apple's #ResearchKit for clinical trials," while Purdue Pharma also said it is exploring early possible uses of ResearchKit in its own drug research, according to a July 12 story by Buzzfeed. Read More »
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Vivametrica Unveils Open Source Healthcare Analytics Platform For Wearables
Charles McLellan | ZD Net | September 16, 2014
A Canadian startup founded by medical professionals plans to offer personal health assessments based on wearable sensor data and public health data sets...
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Why Apple HealthKit in iOS 10 Makes View/Download/Transmit Real
By John D. Halamka, MD | June 22, 2016
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