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Over 140,000,000 Americans’ Health Information Disclosed in Data Breaches
Almost half of Americans’ sensitive health information have been disclosed in data breaches increasing their risk of medical identity theft and medical fraud. Read More »
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Over 90% Of Cloud Services Used In Healthcare Pose Medium To High Security Risk
According to cloud security vendor Skyhigh Networks, more than 13% of cloud services used in healthcare are high‒risk and 77% are medium risk ‒ as measured across 54 different security attributes (like data encryption and “two factor” authentication)...
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Overdiagnosis Via Data and Greed: One Doctor’s View of a Malevolent Downside in Medical Technology
I’ve never been more concerned about the harms of healthcare. Any exposure to the health care system can get you in trouble. It’s especially scary when healthy people enter the system – often in the name of prevention. Remember that the most likely outcome of a medical intervention in a person without complaints is harm. How can we make a person who says he is well any better?...
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Oxford University Press Plans To Launch New Open Access Journal In Partnership With ASSC
Oxford University Press (OUP) is delighted to announce that it is to launch a brand new Open Access journal, Neuroscience of Consciousness, in partnership with the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC)...
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Pakistan And 3D Printing: A Tale Of Success
...The moment the patents expired 3D printing began its steady boom. It was only a matter of time before the tech found its way to Pakistan...
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Paper Highlights Legal, Ethical Issues With Open Health Data, Makes Policy Recommendations
Government open data initiatives have made patient health information more readily available online through healthdata.gov and third-party sites that pull from public sources. But coherent legal and ethics policies are lagging data innovation, says a paper recently published in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal...
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Paperity Hopes To Create A Comprehensive Index Of Open Literature
Paperity, “The first multidisciplinary aggregator of Open Access journals and papers,” launched on Oct. 8. The database currently includes more than 350,000 open access (OA) articles from 2,200-plus scholarly journals that are categorized as either gold (journals that are completely OA cover to cover) or hybrid (subscription journals with some OA articles)...
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Paralyzed Veterans Of America Endorses Clancy For Permanent Under Secretary For Health
In a statement released today and letter sent to President Barack Obama, Paralyzed Veterans of America (Paralyzed Veterans) and Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) expressed their support for Dr. Carolyn M. Clancy as the permanent under secretary for health...
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Patent Trolls Are Starting To Get Trampled
The Open Invention Network now has over a thousand licensees and the court cases are starting to go against the patent trolls...
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Patient Engagement Driven By Incentives Builds Better Health
The increasing popularity of pay-for-performance reimbursement structures is demanding more proactive action from providers in order to keep themselves in business, but can accountable care succeed if providers are the only ones getting paid for making changes?
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Patient portal 2.0
"As healthcare reform and transformation advances, providers will seek new ways to engage patients and influence behavior beyond the point of care Read More »
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Patient portals business means big money
The U.S. patient portal market is booming and is expected to reach $898.4 million by 2017, up from $279.8 million in 2012 – representing a 221 percent increase, a new study says. Read More »
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Patient Safety Events Challenge issued by ONC
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) is proud to launch the Reporting Patient Safety Events Challenge, designed to spur development of platform-agnostic health IT tools to facilitate the reporting of medical errors in hospital and outpatient settings. This developer contest is part of ONC’s Investing in Innovation (i2) Initiative, which holds competitions to accelerate development and adoption of technology solutions that enhance quality and outcomes. Read More »
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Patient Smart Cards: The Key To Protecting Patient Data?
A new research paper from WEDI, the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange formed by HHS in 1991 that serves as an advisor to the agency, examines the feasibility and usability of "secure identity tokens" as a means to protect and secure patient data...
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Patient With Deadly MERS Virus Waited Hours In Florida ER
The second US patient to be diagnosed with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) waited four hours before he was seen by doctors in Florida as 20 health care workers await test results for the deadly virus.
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