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Whole-Foods Diet May Protect Against Leaky Gut And Multiple Sclerosis Progression
...While there is no solid evidence leaky gut syndrome — which refers to an increased permeability of the intestines that allows toxins, microbes, and other substances to cross the intestinal membrane into the body cavity — causes multiple sclerosis, the theory of a possible association is gaining popularity...
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Why All Software Needs A License
All software developers should add a copyright license. Why? Because open source licensing is all about granting permission in advance...
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Why Americans Are Drowning In Medical Debt
Healthcare is the number-one cause of personal bankruptcy and is responsible for more collections than credit cards...
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Why China Is Beating the U.S. at Innovation
For decades, America lost factories and jobs to China but retained a coveted title: the world's leader in inventing and commercializing new products. Now, even that status has been eroded, and it's hurting the economy. While the United States is still at the top in total investment in research and development — spending $500 billion in 2015 — a new Boston Consulting Group (BCG) study released Monday has made a startling finding: A couple of years ago, China quietly surpassed the U.S. in spending on the later stage of R&D that turns discoveries into commercial products. And at its current rate of spending, China will invest up to twice as much as the U.S., or $658 billion, by 2018 on this critical late-stage research...
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Why Cloud Hackers Could Come For Your Health Data Next
The revelation that Community Health Systems (NYSE: CYH ) servers were hacked, resulting in the loss of 4.5 million patient records, and that a server for the Affordable Care Act's healthcare.gov website was breached, puts the issue of healthcare privacy front and center even as industry watchers warn that health care security is far too lax...
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Why CoreOS Is A Game-Changer In The Data Center And Cloud
Offering Linux as a service, CoreOS has become the preferred distro for Docker -- and may go a long way toward making data centers more cloudlike...
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Why Crowdfunding Is Set To Explode In Size Over The Next Few Years
The type of social-driven lending that helped fund flashy startups such as virtual reality goggles maker Oculus VR could more than double over the next few years, according to research from the Tabb Group. Oculus was scooped up by Facebook for a cool $2 billion less than a month ago after receiving its original funding through the crowd-funding company Kickstarter.
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Why Data Breach Readiness Isn't Getting Much Better
Think you can avoid a health data breach the lazy way, without putting in the requisite work? Then think again. This year, in fact, healthcare organizations have reported more data breaches than the year prior, seeing on average a 10 percent jump in breach frequency...
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Why Data Connectivity To Traditional IT Systems And EHRs Should Be A Priority In Your Next-Generation Medical Device Designs
...Another major area that’s lacking in medical devices, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers’ (PwC) Top Health Industry Issues of 2014 report, is that of electronic health records (EHRs), health IT, and patient data connectivity. According to PwC, only about 18% of device companies integrate data into clinical workflows and EHRs — this means there’s a very nice opportunity for upstarts and savvy incumbents...
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Why Do Other Rich Nations Spend So Much Less On Healthcare?
Despite the news last week that America's healthcare spending will not be rising at the sky-high rate that was once predicted, the fact remains that the U.S. far outspends its peer nations when it comes to healthcare costs per capita...
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Why Doctors Still Use Pen And Paper
The health-care system is one of the most technology-dependent parts of the American economy, and one of the most primitive. Every patient knows, and dreads, the first stage of any doctor visit: sitting down with a clipboard and filling out forms by hand.
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Why DoD EHR Modernization Will Fail
As the U.S. Department of Defense zeroes in on determining which bidding group will be awarded the coveted contract to modernize its electronic health record system, Loren Thompson, COO at the nonprofit Lexington Institute, says the effort is doomed to fail. As evidence, he uses the words that Christopher A. Miller, the program executive overseeing the project, used in testimony before the Senate's defense appropriations subcommittee. Read More »
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Why Doesn’t Everyone Have A Pocket Ultrasound Machine?
For about 2 years now a tiny ultrasound machine has been part of my standard physical exam tools as I take care of patients in the hospital and in the outpatient clinic. In November 2011, I first picked up an ultrasound transducer in a continuing medical education course on bedside ultrasound for emergency physicians...
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Why Ebola Is So Dangerous
The World Health Organization (WHO) says it is taking "very seriously" the current outbreak of the Ebola virus in West Africa. Out of 122 cases recorded in Guinea so far, at least 80 patients have died, with a further four deaths in Liberia...
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Why Electronic Health Records Aren't More Usable
Federal government incentives worth about $30 billion have persuaded the majority of physicians and hospitals to adopt electronic health record (EHR) systems over the past few years. However, most physicians do not find EHRs easy to use. Physicians often have difficulty entering structured data in EHRs, especially during patient encounters. The records are hard to read because they're full of irrelevant boilerplates generated by the software and lack individualized information about the patient...
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