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Better Use Of Electronic Health Records Makes Clinical Trials Less Expensive
Using electronic health records to understand the best available treatment for patients, from a range of possible options, is more efficient and less costly for taxpayers than the existing clinical trial process, a new study shows...
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Beware The Hidden Costs Of A Poorly Constructed EHR Contract
We know that electronic health records can cost a lot of money, sometimes millions of dollars. So it would be pretty disconcerting for a provider to learn that it has to pay additional amounts on top of that initial layout.
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Beyond Antibiotics: A New Weapon Against Superbugs Shows Promise Share On Facebook Share On Twitter Share On Google Plus Share Via Email More Options
Over the past decade, the problem of deadly, drug-resistant superbugs has become a global crisis, outpacing new countermeasures and threatening to bring patient care back to beginning of the 20th century. These bugs are now responsible for 23,000 deaths and 2 million illnesses a year in the United States alone...
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Beyond Glass: Inside Epson’s Scheme To Make The De-Facto Smart Glasses
Epson can forgive you if your first thought when you hear augmented reality is Google Glass, even though you're wrong. Google may never had actually described its wearable as an AR device, but a combination of the over-promising original concept video and a general naivety about the segment overall led many would-be Glass wearers to be surprised at what the headset really is: a convenient notifications pane in the corner of your vision.
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Beyond the theatrics of the VA wait-list scandal
The spin cycle of a Washington scandal, once set in motion, is more entertaining to watch than clothes washing at the local laundromat, even though the latter is better at cleaning up a mess. Read More »
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Bi-directional Health Information Exchange (BHIE) between VA & DoD
In a recent Daily Show episode, Stewart was highlighting the backlog, nearly 900,000 strong in VA claims, that is now taking about 273 days per claim to process. Stewart went on to state that the fact that VA and DoD electronic medical records “don’t talk to each other” was the centerpiece to the VA benefits problem.Well, Stewart was half right. Read More »
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Big Brother Would Like To Warn You About Big Brother, Inc.
...The new report, titled "Big Data: Seizing opportunities, preserving values," tries to flesh out what those private-sector ramifications might be...The report is the White House "hoping to move the national debate over privacy beyond the National Security Agency’s surveillance activities to the practices of companies like Google and Facebook," as the paper puts it...
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Big Business CEOs Issue Call To Action For Fixing US Healthcare
Chief executives of several major U.S. corporations came together under the auspice of the Bipartisan Policy Center to work toward the betterment of health and wellness of individual and communities, as well as the overall U.S. healthcare system itself...
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Big Chill For Telemedicine?
New guidelines issued by the Federation of State Medical Boards could have a chilling effect on the growth of telemedicine – especially in rural areas and among low-income patients, say some patient advocates, health care providers and health care companies...
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Big Cyber Hack Of Health Records Is 'Only A Matter Of Time'
The health world is flirting with disaster, say the experts who monitor crime in cyberspace. A hack that exposes the medical and financial records of tens of thousands of patients is coming, they say — it’s only a matter of when...
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Big Data And Open Data: What's What And Why Does It Matter?
Big data and the new phenomenon open data are closely related but they're not the same. Open data brings a perspective that can make big data more useful, more democratic, and less threatening.
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Big Data tying knots in HIT workforce
What health information technology professionals “really need is training in informatics,” said William Hersh, MD Read More »
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Big Data's Effect On Organ Transplant Wait Lists
...While the total number of organs transplanted seems like an impressive amount, nearly 18 people still die each day waiting for a new organ, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing, the private, non-profit organization that manages the U.S.’s organ transplant system under a contract with the federal government...
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Big Data: Benefits, Drawbacks In Addressing Ebola
An Ebola outbreak showed the importance of public health awareness and meaningful interventions, but big data’s role in this has yet to be seen...
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Big Pharma 'Overcharging' Poor Countries For Child Vaccines - Report
Doctors Without Borders has released a new report blasting two top pharmaceutical companies for inflated costs of vital vaccines that have proved too steep for poor nations, recommending they adjust prices in order to save lives...
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