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Air Force Is Building Mini-Hospital In Liberia To Fight Ebola
The Air Force’s Air Combat Command has started installation of what its command surgeon, Brig. Gen. Sean Lee Murphy, described as “a mini-community hospital” in Liberia as part of the Defense Department’s response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa...
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Airline Flight Had Close Call With Drone In March
A US Airways commuter flight nearly collided with a drone in March near the airport in Tallahassee, Fla., according to a Federal Aviation Administration official...
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Airtel Nigeria Partners Grameen For Prenatal Service
Airtel Nigeria has partnered with the Grameen Foundation and VAS2nets Technologies to unveil the mobile health services Mobile Midwife and Dial-a-Doctor. Mobile Midwife is designed to provide vital healthcare and nutrition information. The Dial-A-Doctor service provides real-time help to pregnant women, nursing mothers and mothers with children under five years of age...
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Alaska a Model for National VA
I was disgusted in February when Republicans killed a bill that, among other provisions, would have opened more than two dozen new VA medical facilities to help a health system overburdened by the influx of veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan...The terrible headlines of recent weeks tell us just how much we need those facilities, and why more resources are needed. Perhaps this time the full Senate will step up and vote to improve the VA system.
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Alaska Telehealth Bill Would Allow Phone, Online Prescribing Visits
Alaska may soon allow physicians to write prescriptions for many medications without an initial face-to-face encounter between the prescriber and the patient. A bill to allow the remote prescribing process passed on the final day of the state legislative session April 25 and is awaiting the signature of Alaska Republican Gov. Sean Parnell...
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Alaska University Campuses Adapt To Fast-Growing Veteran Enrollment
...The veteran population at Alaska’s two largest universities is increasing at rates that outpace the growth of total enrollment. At UAA, the number of student veterans and their dependents jumped 38 percent between 2009 and 2014, compared to 4 percent in campus-wide enrollment...
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Alfresco To Contribute Microsoft SharePoint Open Source Integration To Apache Chemistry
Alfresco Software today announced it is contributing to the Apache Software Foundation an open source integration, named Chemistry Parts. The integration connects Microsoft SharePoint to virtually any enterprise content management (ECM) system, including Alfresco, using the open standard CMIS (Content Management Interoperability Services) from OASIS...
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Aligning Europe's Approaches To Open Access
While successive UK government and research funders’ policy announcements have kept open access (OA) high on the agenda for the UK’s researchers and universities, is it a similar priority for their European counterparts?...
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All VA Medical Centers Named to the 2013 “Most Wired” Hospitals List
This year, we were honored to have VA, representing all of its 151 VA medical centers, named to the 2013 “Most Wired” Hospitals list. The list is the result of a national survey aimed at ranking hospitals which are leveraging health information technology (HIT) in new and innovative ways. Read More »
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Allscripts Joins Race for DOD EHR Contract as $11B Offer Looms
Allscripts, CSC, and Hewlett-Packard have announced that they are teaming up against Epic and IBM to bid for a massive Department of Defense EHR overhaul, it looks like new battle lines are being drawn in the quest to secure up to $11 billion from the ten to fifteen year contract to revamp the ailing health IT infrastructure of one of the most complex healthcare systems in the world. Read More »
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Alzheimer's 'Could Bankrupt Nations'
"We're looking at the first disease in modern history that has the potential to bankrupt nations," said Elli Kaplan at Wired Health this morning. She was talking about Alzheimer's disease, which every six seconds is developed by another human being.
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AMA Calls For Reduced Requirements, Penalties For MU Program
The American Medical Association (AMA) has a long list of ideas to make the Meaningful Use (MU) program better for physicians and shared its recommendations in a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC)...
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AMA Pleads For More User-Friendly EHRs
The American Medical Association is targeting the usability—or lack thereof—of electronic health-record systems as part of a broader campaign to improve physician satisfaction...
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AMA Responds To CMS Regarding Meaningful Use Penalties For Eligible Professionals
"The American Medical Association (AMA) is appalled by news from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) today that more than 50 percent of eligible professionals will face penalties under the Meaningful Use program in 2015, a number that is even worse than we anticipated...
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AMA Takes Issue With Meaningful Use Penalties
American Medical Association president-elect Steven J. Sack, MD, issued a statement expressing his organization's disapproval of CMS' forthcoming penalties against physicians who aren't meeting meaningful use requirements under its EHR Incentive Program...
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