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Case For Dropping MU Stages 2 And 3
Federal meaningful use requirements are well intentioned, but like a teacher who “teaches to the test,” the federal meaningful use program created a very complicated system that might pass the test of meaningful use stages, but is not producing meaningful results for patients and clinicians...
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CAV Systems Ltd Rebrands and Expands Product Suite
CAV Systems Ltd...has announced the Evolve Suite of data-mapping and migration tools for MUMPS users seeking a convenient and effective way to work with their data in relational environments while still retaining the many benefits of their production systems. Originally developed to satisfy the growing number of requests from CAV Systems’ own customers, the Evolve Suite is now available to address similar needs for the MUMPS community at large. In particular, the two leading implementations of MUMPS in the market today, Caché from InterSystems Corporation and GT.M from FIS, are fully supported. Read More »
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CCHIT Demise Should Herald Demise Of EHR Certification
In my very first post for Forbes.com, written back in May, I argued that certification of electronic health records had run its course and was no longer needed in health IT. This week, that position got a boost with some news that in one sense was shocking and in another was not surprising at all: the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) is closing its doors on Nov. 14...
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CCSi Awarded VA Contract To Enable Rural-Area Veterans Access to Benefit Systems
Creative Computing Solutions, Inc. (CCSi), a leading provider of health services, program management, cybersecurity and enterprise systems engineering to the federal government, today announced it has received a prime contract to support the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Informatics and Analytics, Health Informatics Office and the Office of Rural Health...
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CDC Closes Labs After Anthrax, Bird Flu And Small Pox Scares
Days after the discovery of small pox vials in a NIH medical laboratory in Bethesda, the Center For Disease Control announced Friday that labs connected to anthrax and bird flu scares would be temporarily closed...
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CDC Director On Ebola: ‘The Window Of Opportunity Really Is Closing’
...Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, gave a lengthy press conference immediately after returning to the US from a visit to the Ebola zone. Frieden has shown in the past that he knows how to be outspoken in a very strategic way; yet even so, the urgency of his language, and his call for an immediate, comprehensive global response, was striking...
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CDC invests more than $200 million to help states respond to infectious disease threats
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has awarded more than $200 million through the Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Infectious Diseases (ELC) cooperative agreement to help states, cities, counties, and territories prevent, detect, respond to, and control the growing threats posed by emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. State programs are the foundation of the U.S. public health system and are integral to the nation’s efforts to combat infectious disease threats. CDC and states work together to improve local surveillance, laboratory diagnostic capabilities, and outbreak response.
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CDC Official Protests Federal Medical Response Cuts
More than half a decade of reductions to spending on state and local public-health agencies has already been "extremely damaging" to capabilities across the country for responding to unconventional attacks and other disasters, Dr. Ali Khan, director of the Public Health Preparedness and Response Office at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told Global Security Newswire in an interview.
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CDC Tracks Cell Phone Location Data To Halt Ebola
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is tracking the approximate locations of cell phone users in West Africa who dial emergency call centers in an effort to predict the onset and spread of Ebola outbreaks...It’s one of the high-tech approaches the U.S. government is piloting to stop the spread of the disease...
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CDISC Announces Launch Of CDISC eSHARE
The Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) is pleased to announce the official launch of CDISC eSHARE. For the first time, CDISC metadata standards in multiple formats are now electronically accessible by computer applications through an integrated system...
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Cell Phones Can Help Under-Developed Countries Manage Diabetes and Other Diseases
A new study by the Veterans Affairs Ann Arbor Healthcare System and University of Michigan suggests that mobile phones could help low-income patients across the globe manage diabetes and other chronic diseases. Read More »
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Center for Open Science issues 29 grants to develop open tools and services to support scientific research
The Center for Open Science is pleased to announce 29 grants totalling nearly $300,000 for advancing openness, integrity, and reproducibility in science. All tools and services developed with these grant funds will have open licenses to maximize collaboration, reuse, and community support, and many will integrate with the growing Open Science Framework (OSF) ecosystem. These grants were made possible by an anonymous donation to the Center for Open Science.
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CEO Resigns Amid Troubled Cerner EHR Rollout
'Aggressive' [Cerner] EHR rollout and myriad staff concerns at center
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Cerner CEO Makes An Emotional Plea For Interoperability Among Health Care Technology Providers
...A rapt audience of about 11,000 Tuesday morning at the annual Cerner Health Conference heard Patterson emotionally invoke personal experience to illustrate his passion for what his company does. The North Kansas City-based company is an industry leader in digitizing patient health records and working with other providers to make that information “interoperable” across health care information technology providers...
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Cerner Clients Test SMART on FHIR Apps Within EHR
Cerner...has unveiled a production version of HL7's FHIR® standard that is being tested in the Cerner Millennium® electronic health record (EHR). "This next-generation standards framework enables health care organizations to utilize Cerner's open platform, which is designed to enable third-party innovators to advance care delivery and improve interoperability capabilities with other FHIR-compliant EHR systems," said Dr. David McCallie, senior vice president, medical informatics at Cerner. "This integrated approach will provide clinicians access to 'pluggable apps' directly within their workflows that are designed to expand and transform the way care is delivered."
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