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Wasting Information Technology Dollars: How Can The Federal Government Reform Its IT Investment Strategy?
Information technology is at the heart of every federal agency or program’s ability to function successfully. In just the last ten years, government spending on IT has risen from $46 billion in 2001 to approximately $81 billion in 2012. As is the case government wide, spending decisions are often not based on performance results... Read More »
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What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success
The Scandinavian country is an education superpower because it values equality more than excellence. Read More »
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What Consolidation Means For EHR, Health IT Interoperability
The transformation of the healthcare industry is not unlike a puzzle — with pieces constantly moved until the right “fit” is found. A recent report shows a slight decline in the acquisition of hospitals by each other but a steady increase in health system acquisition of services such as home care, medical group, and rehab services. [...] Read More »
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What Is Different About Health IT When Talking Usability?
Health information technology may resemble other forms of hardware, software, systems, and services, but when the focus turns to usability that resemblance breaks down, according Jacob Reider, MD, of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC). Read More »
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What It Will Take To Achieve The As-Yet-Unfulfilled Promises Of Health Information Technology
A team of RAND Corporation researchers projected in 2005 that rapid adoption of health information technology (IT) could save the United States more than $81 billion annually. Read More »
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What Will It Take To Successfully Implement Health IT Solutions?
Incorporating health IT solutions to “fix” a troublesome healthcare system has long been touted as the backbone of healthcare reform. Health IT would not only greatly improve the delivery of care through increased performance, it could also largely pay for itself [...]. Read More »
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What Would The Ideal Hospital Look Like In 2020?
There is tension between doctors and designers. Architects want to build dramatic structures while doctors need room to deal with traumatic scenarios. [...] Despite these inherent differences, the non-profit design firm NXT Health has developed a proposal for the nicest hospital room you’ll hopefully never have to visit. Read More »
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When iOS 7 Attacks: Help For iPhone 4 And 4S Owners
Older iPhones that update to Apple's latest mobile software can get laggy. Here's how to minimize those problems.
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White House Names Former Microsoft Exec To Run Healthcare.gov
Former Microsoft executive Kurt DelBene will take over the volunteer job of overseeing ongoing fixes to the federal Obamacare marketplace HealthCare.gov starting Wednesday, officials said. Read More »
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Why EHRs Are Not (Yet) Disruptive
[...] EHRs are not unsuccessful because of health care providers’ ineptness. Rather, they are a potentially disruptive technology that got caught in a legacy business model that can only prioritize sustaining innovations. Read More »
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Health Information Technology Conference
On May 15-16, government and industry experts from DHHS, CMA, McKesson, MedStar, John Hopkins, and AT&T, among several other organizations, will gather in Washington, D.C. to participate in the Health Information Technology Conference. Read More »
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Military Healthcare Conference: Balancing Costs, Readiness, Resiliency & Performance
On May 22-23, the Military Healthcare Conference will be held in Washington, D.C.: “This outstanding conference brings together the key players and organizations who are shaping the future MHS. They will provide a comprehensive analysis of OSD and Service healthcare strategies, plans, challenges and opportunities.” Read More »
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CONNECT Sprint Review Webinar
Work on CONNECT Release 4.0 has begun, and the CONNECT team wants to encourage active participation from the CONNECT community in our development processes for the newest release. Release 4.0 sprint reviews and planning sessions are open to the public and a great way to engage with the CONNECT product team and community. Read More »
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