I’ve been in New Zealand this week, meeting with government, academic, and industry leaders to discuss the IT challenges ahead - social networking-based teamwork for health, mobile applications, precision medicine analytics for decision support, and cloud computing all within a framework of protecting privacy. I believe that New Zealand has a unique opportunity to leapfrog the rest of the world with healthcare IT breakthroughs that show the rest of us what is possible from a 4.5 million person learning lab. Why? The perfect storm for innovation requires alignment of technology, psychology, and implementation. New Zealand is divided into 20 District Health Boards which improve the health of their populations by delivering high quality and accessible health care...
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Interoperability Issues Keep Clinicians From Sharing Health Info Electronically
Clinicians want to share health care information electronically, but are stymied by electronic health records that can't communicate with one another, a lack of information-exchange infrastructure, and the expense of setting up electronic interfaces and information exchanges, a new survey finds. Read More »
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Interoperability: Quick Route To Better Care
Healthcare quality and efficiency could move forward 20 years in a matter of months if only there were true interoperability of electronic health information, according to a noted critic of the health IT industry. Read More »
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Is Open Source The Key To Creating The Government Of The Future?
At GovLoop.com, the knowledge network for government, we are passionate about highlighting the bright spots in government and helping to improve it. That’s why I am excited to share our most recent GovLoop Guide, focused on open source technology. Read More »
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Lawmakers Grill Federal CIO On Data Center Figures
Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel, speaking before a House subcommittee Thursday, defended the Office of Management and Budget's sudden acknowledgement that the number of federal data centers now totaled more than 7,000, more than twice the number that had been reported as recently as May. Read More »
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Libelium Launches New Generation of Waspmote Sensor Nodes
Libelium, a wireless sensor networks platform provider for Smart Cities solutions, today released a new version of Waspmote, its open source wireless sensor platform, designed with input from a community of more than 2,000 developers. Read More »
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McConnell: Wake Forest Baptist Cuts Necessary For Future Success
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center is cutting 950 positions over the next eight months as a way to ensure its success as revenue from patient services and research grants dries up in the future, according to medical center CEO Dr. John McConnell. Read More »
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Meaningful Use May Unintentionally Increase Care Disparities
I read with great interest this week my colleague Ron Shinkman's thought-provoking commentary about how the 25 states that have refused to expand Medicaid eligibility pursuant to the Affordable Care Act and rejected billions of federal dollars could ultimately degrade the quality of their patients' care. [...] Read More »
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Medicare Bills Rise As Records Turn Electronic
But, in reality, the move to electronic health records may be contributing to billions of dollars in higher costs for Medicare, private insurers and patients by making it easier for hospitals and physicians to bill more for their services, whether or not they provide additional care.
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Mobile Health Around The Globe: Ghana - Changing The Very Essence Of Healthcare
Ghana faces some serious challenges when it comes to healthcare delivery.
As the Austrian Red Cross points out, although the country has a population of nearly 23.5 million people, there are only 1,439 health care facilities, unevenly distributed across the country. Read More »
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NationBuilder Brings Community Software To Government
NationBuilder Vice President of Community Adriel Hampton introduces the company’s newest offering, NationBuilder Government. Read More »
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New Open-Source Software Could Improve Breast Cancer Management
A new software suite is being developed in the Canadian Atlantic provinces that could make patient management and imaging resource use more efficient, not only in that region but in the rest of the world. Information on the system was presented this week at the 2012 World Cancer Congress. Read More »
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New Recall Management Tool Matches Alerts Directly to Hospitals' Equipment Inventory Data
The faster a hospital responds to a product safety alert or recall, the safer its patients are. But with dozens of alerts and recalls issued every week by FDA, manufacturers, and other organizations, how can busy hospital staff quickly see which ones have the potential to affect their own patients?Today, ECRI Institute announces the release of Automatch™ for Equipment, the newest enhancement to its Alerts Tracker™ automated recall management solution used by hospitals and health systems worldwide...
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New Zealand Can Lead Healthcare IT
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Obama's Technology Guru On Opening The Data Vault: Todd Park On 6 Ways Non-Secret Government Data Has Been Put To Work
Just back from a foreign trip and a holiday vacation, the president returned to work Monday by talking about government efficiency. Read More »
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Only 12% Of Docs Meet Meaningful Use Rules
Just over 12% of about 509,000 eligible physicians said they met requirements for meaningful use incentives for electronic health records (EHRs), early study results show. Read More »
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