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Baker: Federal CIOs Will Embrace a 'Bring-your-own-device' Strategy in Less Than 2 Years
In less than 2 years, federal agencies will allow workers to use a single, employee-provided mobile device for work with the ability to connect to the network, predicted Veterans Affairs Department Chief Information Officer Roger Baker. Read More »
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Baltimore City Health Department Partners With eMOCHA For Medication Adherence Pilot
Health app developer emocha, which stands for electronic mobile comprehensive health application, has partnered with the Baltimore City Health Department to run a pilot on medication adherence for patients with tuberculosis...
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Baltimore Medical Students Create Secure Open Source EMR for Homeless Patients
A free medical clinic serving Baltimore's homeless and uninsured residents now has its first electronic medical record system for patients—a project conceived and implemented by medical students at the Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland. It is the first electronic medical record (EMR) system developed by students for use by free clinics that cannot afford a commercial EMR system.
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Barcoding Still A Key Tool For Safety
There is ample evidence that barcode technology for medication has had a significant impact on patient safety. But while most U.S. hospitals have adopted barcode medication administration, experts say there's big room for improvement...
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Baton Rouge VA Clinic Is An Island Of Efficiency In Nation's Troubled System, Patients Say
After checking in for an appointment at the VA clinic in Baton Rouge, veteran Melvin Rucker said he usually sits the waiting room just 15 or 20 minutes before his name gets called..."I wouldn't change anything about the Baton Rouge clinic."...
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Before Privatizing The VA, Publicize It
The Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital scandal has policymakers calling for VA Secretary Eric Shinseki’s head, and this week they got it, when President Obama accepted the Secretary’s resignation...
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Behind The Huge Cyberattack Campaign In Latin America That No One Has Heard About
For the past four years, a secret cyber-attack campaign, possibly state-sponsored, has been directed at several Latin American intelligence services, military, embassies and other government institutions. The Moscow-based cyber-security firm Kaspersky Lab, which claims to have unearthed the campaign, has given it a name: El Machete...
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Behind The Mask Of Altruism: Imperialism, Monsanto And The Gates Foundation In Africa
Since 2006, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has funded the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) to the tune of almost $420 million. Activists from Zimbabwe, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, and Ethiopia recently attended the US-Africa Food Sovereignty Strategy Summit in Seattle to argue that the Foundation’s strategy for agriculture in Africa is a flawed attempt to impose industrial agriculture at the expense of more ecologically sound approaches...
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Benjamin Kerensa On Firefox OS & Internet Freedom
According to the Mozilla Developer Network, Firefox OS is an open source mobile operating system based on Linux, open web standards and Mozilla’s Gecko technology. But there’s more to it that that: Firefox OS is about reinventing what mobile platforms can be, about pushing the boundaries of what is possible with the Web on mobile and about enabling entirely new segments of users to come online with their smartphone at various levels of participation, from users to developers...
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Berwick Platform: ‘Seriously’ Explore Single Payer, Review Cost Control
Granted, a candidate releasing his platform on health care for a race that’s a full year away might not strike you as big breaking news...That candidate is Dr. Donald Berwick, former chief of Medicare in the Obama administration, and that territory is the idea of a “single-payer” system — a sort of “Medicare for all” that’s common in other developed countries but that faces some strong opposition in the United States...
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Best Of Open Hardware In 2014
Open hardware is the physical foundation of the open movement. It is through understanding, designing, manufacturing, commercializing, and adopting open hardware, that we built the basis for a healthy and self-reliant community of open. And the year of 2014 had plenty of activities in the open hardware front...
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Beth Israel Launches Pilot That Lets Patients Read Therapists’ Notes
Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has launched a pilot in which 700 mental health patients receive access to their therapists’ notes on their laptop or smartphone, according to a must-read report in the New York Times...
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Beth Israel Pilot To Let Patients Add Notes To Medical Records
Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center received a $450,000 grant from The Commonwealth Fund this week to develop a program called OurNotes that allows patients to contribute to their medical records...
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Better Coordination Of Care Could Save $1.5 Billion Annually
Improving the coordination of care for elderly patients with chronic diseases reduces costs, use of health services and complications, according to a new RAND Corporation study published online in JAMA Internal Medicine.
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Better Tech Is Here for Healthcare
Better technology is out there serving other industries … and it can be applied in healthcare. Technology should ease administrative loads and put clinicians back in front of patients! I’ve talked about some of this previously and how we keep clinicians involved in our design process. When it came to building an entirely new EHR, the driving force behind our team researching and adopting new technologies was to imagine a clean slate...
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