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10 Steps To Overcome Your Fear Of Using Open Source Software
The entire Internet runs on open source software (OSS) and, if we used it more in medical devices, it would lead to reduced costs and increase the quality of devices. If you ask some regulatory affairs folks in medical device companies, they think OSS is too “dangerous” for use in safety critical systems...
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10 Things DoD Wants In Its Next EHR
Ending months of anticipation, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) released its official request for proposals to modernize its Electronic Health Records (EHR) system and enable the DoD to share health data with the private sector and the Department of Veterans Affairs...
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10 Things We Learned From Pew Research's Internet Of Things Report
Health tech will boom but privacy effects may be ‘pernicious’. Oh, and ‘we will all have cyberservants’
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11-Month Defense Health Record Contract Awarded to Leidos
The Defense Health Agency has awarded Leidos -- formerly Science Applications International Corp, or SAIC -- a sole source, $70.7 million bridge contract to support military electronic health record systems over the next 11 months.
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13 Things That Are About To Change At VA
The Veterans' Access to Care through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act passed the House on July 30 with a vote of 420 to 5. The Senate followed suit, 91 to 3, on July 31, and the president's signature is all but assured...
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15 More Countries At Risk Of Ebola Contamination - Oxford University
The deadly Ebola virus could spread to 15 new countries, according to calculations made by Oxford University...The new study is published in the eLife journal, and examines how the disease could spread through the animal kingdom and to human beings...
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16 Cancer Causing Foods You Probably Eat Every Day
It’s probably not something you think about every day, whether or not the foods you are eating could contain carcinogens, but with almost 1.5 million people diagnosed with some type of cancer just last year, perhaps it’s time to look at what is in our foods that could be causing such a huge number of new cancer patients. Here is a list of the top 10 foods that you most likely consume every day that may contain carcinogens or be suspected of causing cancer...
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16 Healthcare Gamification Startups To Watch In 2014
An in-depth look at sixteen of the most promising healthcare gamification startups to watch in 2014 and beyond...
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2 Million Obamacare Enrollments Have Data Inconsistencies
According to government documents obtained by the Associated Press, the accounts of more than 2 million people who signed up for Obamacare have "data discrepancies," some of which could affect their subsidy eligibility. The discrepancies include "important details on income, citizenship and immigration status," according to the AP...
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2 Million Reasons India Should Restrict Antibiotics
Minimum effort. Minimum expense. Maximum result. In colloquial English, that’s the mantra that guides India, a mantra that has helped it become a global centre for low-cost innovation—and kept the country addicted to slapdash, jerryrigged solutions to complex problems....
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2 Million Telehealth Visits For Vets In 2014
The number of veterans using telehealth services has greatly increased in the last four years according to VA...
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20 Orlando Health Workers Watched For MERS Symptoms
Nineteen employees at two Orlando hospitals who came in contact with a man infected with the rare MERS virus were sent home under quarantine and are being closely monitored for symptoms. An additional worker who displayed symptoms was put in isolation in the hospital...
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2014 Health IT Venture Funds Fly High
Six companies attracted millions from top venture investors...
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2014 Milliman Medical Index-Medical Expenditures More than Double in US
$23,215. That’s how much is spent in 2014 on healthcare for a typical American family of four covered by an average employer-sponsored health plan according to the 2014 Milliman Medical Index (MMI)...
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2014 MU Incentive Program Off To A Relatively Slow Start
As of the end of February, there were 458,137 total participants – up from 448,750 in January – from all versions of the EHR incentive program, according to Elizabeth Myers, head of policy and outreach at the Office of eHealth Standards and Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services at the Tuesday HIT Policy Committee meeting.
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