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Digital Health’s Dirty Little Secrets Revealed
Digital health is hot. Consider the evidence...
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Digitaliza TXT Selected as a Finalist for the 2015 Bio-IT World Award for Its Adoption of Electronic Data Capture ClinCapture
Nominated by Clinovo, Digitaliza TXT, the leading technology provider for CROs in Latin America has been selected as one of the finalists for the 2015 Bio-IT Best Practices Award. Digitaliza TXT was nominated for its submission, sharing a real-life case study on transitioning from paper based studies to EDC system ClinCapture, to better support its local and global clients in the clinical trial industry. The Best Practices Awards highlight outstanding examples of how technology innovations and strategic initiatives can be powerful forces for change in the life sciences, from basic biomedical research to drug development and beyond. More than 75 projects have been recognized since 2003.
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Direct Project facilitates Health Information Exchange between States
Two of the nation's largest health information exchanges are now exchanging Direct messages across state borders, officials announced Tuesday. Read More »
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DirectTrust Delivers Interoperable Messaging To Healthcare
The nonprofit industry alliance DirectTrust hopes its voluntary accreditation and audit program, digital certificates, and relationship with the federal government will encourage more health information service providers (HISPs) to join its expanding program...
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Do DoD changes signify last nail in iEHR's coffin?
Seismic shifts in defense healthcare policy are complicating the government’s plans for portable and comprehensive electronic patient health records, with a rift forming between the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Veterans Administration (VA) over the right way to move forward. Read More »
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Do Epic And Interoperability Interface? Depends On Whom You Ask
The nation’s largest electronic medical record vendor has an image problem. Verona, Wis.-based Epic has come under fire this year over its lack of interoperability, spurring the company, once well known for its mum relationship with the press, to speak up...
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Do Hospitals Want Interoperability?
I’ve had this discussion come up over and over again today in a series of discussions that I’ve had at the NYeC’s Digital Health Conference in NYC. Many people are blaming the EHR vendors for not being interoperable...
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Do The CDC’s Ebola Precautions For U.S. Hospitals Go Far Enough?
U.S. hospitals have gone on alert since two American healthcare workers were brought to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta this month after being infected with the Ebola virus while treating Ebola patients in West Africa...
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Docker And The Rise Of Open Source
There’s never been a phenomenon like Docker. Eighteen months ago, the company took its core technology, which enables IT people to move software easily between different machines by enclosing it in “containers”, and made it open source...
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Docker Libcontainer Unifies Linux Container Powers
At DockerCon in San Francisco, Docker CTO and co-founder Solomon Hykes announced that the company would work as full partners with its former container technology rivals on Docker's key open-source component libcontainer...
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Docs Cite EHRs As Top IT Concern; Shun Telehealth, Social Media
When it comes to implementing electronic health records into daily workflow, 17 percent of physicians responding to a newly published survey say it is their top IT concern....
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Docs To ONC: Ease Administrative Burden Of Health IT
The American Academy of Family Physicians is urging the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT to ease the burden on physicians trying to comply with federal health IT goals...
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Doctors And Hospitals Got At Least $3.5 Billion From Industry In Just Five Months
...Lawsuits in recent years revealed that doctors' relationships with industry can alter their prescribing practices and decision-making for the worse, and pharmaceutical companies have paid out billions of dollars in fines for fraudulent marketing practices...
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Doctors Are Not Overpaid: Column
Harvard economist David Cutler did this comparison and found that U.S. physicians were less well-paid than non-U.S. doctors relative to their high-earning peers...
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Doctors Aren't Sure How To Stop Africa's Deadliest Ebola Outbreak
When an Ebola outbreak lasts for months and continues to show up in new cities, health officials take notice...
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