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Pharmaceutical Companies Told To Slash Price Of Pneumococcal Disease Vaccine
Two giant pharmaceutical companies should lower the price of a new vaccine against pneumococcal disease that is needed by children in developing countries, but is unaffordable for some of their governments, say the volunteer doctors of Médecins sans Frontières (MSF)...
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Phillip Longman's Senate Testimony Before the The State of VA Health Care Hearings
We need to open up the VA and grow it, extending no-questions-asked eligibility not only to all vets but to their family members as well. This not only makes clinical sense, it also makes economic sense. So long as the VA remains one of, if not the most, cost- effective, scientifically driven, integrated health care delivery systems in the country, the more patients it treats, the better for everyone.
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Physician adds Smartphone to Medical Tools to gather patient info
...[Dr. Paul] Abramson is on the vanguard of the emerging digital revolution in medicine. Beyond consumer-driven apps that count calories or encourage exercise, mobile technology is beginning to significantly change how doctors practice medicine. Read More »
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Pilots Battle Against 'Walmart-ing' Of Airline Industry
A Norwegian-named airline based in Ireland that employs Thailand-based crews through a Singaporean pilot supply company? It's a new world for airlines, and industry incumbents are fighting back...
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Pistoia Alliance Expands Business Development With Appointment Of Carmen Nitsche
The Pistoia Alliance, a global not for profit organization committed to lowering the barriers to innovation in life sciences R&D through pre-competitive collaboration, has announced the appointment of Carmen Nitsche as Executive Director Business Development North America, as the organization looks to expand its global reach...
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Pitching Medicaid IT in Silicon Valley
Earlier this year, I announced a new effort to connect new, innovative companies and their investors to the state Medicaid program IT space. Since this announcement, I have been encouraged by the initial interest from companies that may not have otherwise ever thought about participating in this important health insurance program that covers more than 72 million Americans. That’s why I’m in Silicon Valley today to participate in a forum on bringing technological advances to Medicaid. The forum is convening states, innovative tech companies, and federal Medicaid officials on how to collaborate to improve the delivery of Medicaid health coverage in states.
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Plastic Surgeon Uses Google Glass To Help Perform Facial Reconstructive Surgeries
Dr. Jeff Colyer, a plastic surgeon and Kansas Lt. Governor is now using Google Glass to perform facial reconstructive surgeries at a North Kansas City Hospital, Fox 4 of Kansas City reports. By uploading the patient’s x-rays to Google Glass, the surgeon avoids looking at the monitor in the operating room...
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Plug and Play Healthcare: Open Middleware and the Emergence of a Functional Interoperability Framework
“A middleware architecture has been shown to be the best technological solution for addressing the problem of EHR interoperability. The middleware platform facilitates the transparent, yet secure, access of patient health data, directly from the various databases where it is stored. A server-based middleware framework supporting access to the various patient health data stores allows for a scalable, unified and standardized platform for applications to be developed upon. The middleware architectural design has been successfully used to link data from multiple databases, irrespective to the database platform or where the database is located,” says Voltz. Read More »
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Police Around The Country Are Distributing Software That Makes It Easier To Hack Your Computer
ComputerCOP's makers have long promised their program will protect children from online predators, and that promise has been enough to persuade local police forces nationwide to hand it out free to concerned parents. But according to a new report from an Internet freedom group, the police have been had—and the parents using the program are actually putting their families' privacy at risk...
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Police Want To Get Rid Of Their Pentagon-Issued Combat Gear. Here's Why They Can't.
After Ferguson, many towns are trying to return military gear supplied by the Defense Department—and finding it impossible...
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Polish NGO To Obama: Mass Surveillance Is Not Freedom
...Since October 2013, the Panoptykon Foundation, a Polish NGO, has tried to understand the relationship between the Polish and United States’ secret service organizations. Panoptykon believes that the Polish government, by accepting mass and pre-emptive surveillance, is reverting back to the much contested practices of the former, authoritarian regime—practices that triggered the revolution 25 years ago...
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Pols To Ad Networks: Pretend We Passed SOPA, And Never Mind About Violating Antitrust Law
A group of United States Senators and Representatives is asking Internet advertising networks to create a blacklist of alleged "piracy sites" and refuse to serve ads to those sites. If this idea sounds familiar, that's probably because it was an integral part of the infamous Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, legislation that was stopped in its tracks two years ago after a massive protest by Internet users...
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Pontiac General Hospital in Detroit Selects OpenVista Healthcare IT Platform
Medsphere Systems Corporation...today announced that Pontiac General Hospital has selected the OpenVista® electronic health record (EHR) system for implementation. Looking toward a financial rebirth, the new owners of the 306 licensed-bed hospital will use OpenVista to improve management practices and clinical workflows as they also grow clinical staff and expand available services. The rebirth of Pontiac General is an endeavor led by Sanyam Sharma with the support of his family, Dr. Sanjay and Priyam Sharma. While Sanyam formed Sant Partners, LLC, last summer in preparation for entering the healthcare provider turnaround space, Pontiac General is only the Sharmas’ most recent healthcare revitalization project.
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Poor MU Showing Renews Calls For Change
A fresh batch of disheartening Stage 2 attestation numbers has prompted several industry groups to once again implore the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to shorten the meaningful use reporting period in 2015...
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Pope Francis Warns On 'Piecemeal World War III'
A "piecemeal" World War III may have already begun with the current spate of crimes, massacres and destruction, Pope Francis has warned...
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