Health IT News

News clips about general health IT products, organizations, and activities [not open source health IT news] from various news sources, e.g. newspapers, news web sites, magazines, journals, blogs, etc.

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Rivet Logic Exhibiting at HIMSS16, Focused on Improving Healthcare Through Open Source Solutions

Stacy Weng | rivetlogic blog | February 16, 2016

Rivet Logic is excited to be a first time exhibitor at HIMSS in the Connected Health Experience, a centralized destination experience for connected and wireless technologies. The Connected Health Experience combines the Connected Patient Gallery, Mobile Health Knowledge Center, Games for Health and a new focus on telehealth. Attendees will experience how emerging wireless and connected technologies address patient and consumer engagement, manage chronic conditions and create efficiencies in the healthcare system.

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RNRN Launches Fundraising Drive For Healthcare Workers In Ebola-Stricken Nations

Press Release | Registered Nurse Response Network | September 3, 2014

The Registered Nurse Response Network (RNRN), a project of National Nurses United (NNU), the nation’s largest professional organization of RNs, has initiated a national fundraising campaign to provide desperately needed personal protective equipment for frontline healthcare workers caring for patients stricken by the Ebola virus...

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RNs Urge Tougher Federal Oversight On Unproven Medical Technology On which Hospitals Spend Billions

Press Release | National Nurses United | July 8, 2014

National Nurses United is calling on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to enact meaningful oversight and public protections on the use of unproven medical technology that is rapidly spreading through the nation’s healthcare system...

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Roadblocks To Public Health Data Sharing

Staff Writer | Government Health IT | December 8, 2014

The sharing of public health data, so essential to health care decision-making in the information age, is being held back by multiple barriers, according to a new study published in the journal BMC Public Health...

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Robots Can Now Officially Imitate Humans

Kabir Chibber | Quartz | June 8, 2014

A computer that has convinced humans it is a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy has potentially passed a benchmark for artificial intelligence for the first time.  The programme, named “Eugene Goostman” and created by Russian developers, managed to convince 33% of the judges that it was human at an event at the Royal Society in London, The Independent reported...

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Rock Health: Digital Health Funding Breaks $2.3B In First Half of 2014

Jasmine Pennic | HIT Consultant | June 30, 2014

Digital health funding totals $2.3B in the first half of 2014 according to recent 2014 Midyear Digital Health Funding Report by Rock Health.

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Roots of Trump’s ‘Economic Nationalism’

Andrew Spannaus | ConsortiumNews.com | April 13, 2017

With most of the media and political commentators focused on the Republicans’ failed attempt to pass a healthcare bill, some of President Donald Trump’s most significant words appear to have gone almost unnoticed. The President was away from the political fight in Washington on March 20, conducting one of his periodic attempts to sustain excitement among his base. At a rally in Louisville, Kentucky, Trump repeated his standard lines about putting America first, starting with economic policy....

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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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Round-Up: Open Source Technologies Are Key To The Growth Of Internet Of Things

Saroj Kar | Silicon Angle | January 5, 2015

Today, there are numerous products that allow the exchange of information on the Internet, but there is little real interoperability. Companies that make fact-based device platforms and proprietary applications may be stifling the creation of a complete ecosystem...

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RPM Alliance Joins Clinovo’s CRO Partnership Program, Further Strengthening Its Presence In Southern California And India

Press Release | RPM Alliance, Clinovo | November 25, 2014

RPM Alliance, CRO headquartered in Carlsbad, CA with an office in Mumbai, India, now offers Clinovo’s Electronic Data Capture (EDC) solution ClinCapture, bringing the only free validated EDC system to India...

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RSNA Building an Open Repository of COVID-19 Imaging Data

Press Release | Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) | March 30, 2020

The medical imaging community around the world is uniting to help address the COVID-19 pandemic. The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) continues to build on its extensive body of COVID-19 research and education resources, announcing a new initiative to build a COVID-19 Imaging Data Repository. The open data repository will compile images and correlative data from institutions, practices and societies around the world to create a comprehensive source for COVID-19 research and education efforts. The image hosting, annotation and analysis framework will enable researchers to understand epidemiological trends and to generate new AI algorithms to assist with COVID-19 disease detection, differentiation from other pneumonias and quantification of lung involvement on CT for prognosis or therapy planning.

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Running NwHIN ought to be a public-private partnership

Diana Manos | Healthcare IT News | June 27, 2012

The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) believes a private-public partnership would be better to run the future Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN), rather than a federal body alone. Read More »

Russia's Strategic-Missile Troops Training To Find Ebola Pathogens

Staff Writer | RIANOVOSTI | September 17, 2014

Russia’s Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Units of the Strategic Missile Forces (SMF) began training on the detection of different viruses and harmful bacteria, including the Ebola virus, Defense Ministry spokesman for SMF Igor Yegorov stated on Wednesday...

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Rutgers Chemistry Professor Helen Berman To Receive Benjamin Franklin Award For Open Access In The Life Sciences

Staff Writer | Rutgers | March 25, 2014

Helen M. Berman, Rutgers University Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) and the Center for Integrative Proteomics Research, has been selected to receive the Benjamin Franklin Award for Open Access in the Life Sciences from Bioinformatics.org, also known as The Bioinformatics Organization, Inc.

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Rwanda Hosts Summit of Open Source Health Software Consortia

Staff | IGIHE | September 26, 2012

[From] September 24th - 27th 2012 a host of international health information professionals participated in Kigali’s first ever Open Health Information Exchange (OpenHIE) symposium. The symposium brought key open source health software communities together to collaboratively create and deploy an integrated eHealth system for the Rwandan Ministry of Health. Read More »