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Doctors Say Data Fees Are Blocking Health Reform
As they move to exchange patient information with hospitals and other health care partners, doctors are suffering sticker shock: The vendors of the health care software want thousands of dollars to unlock the data so they can be shared. It may take an act of Congress to provide relief...The exorbitant prices to transmit and receive data, providers and IT specialists say, can amount to billions a year. And the electronic health record industry is increasingly reliant on this revenue...
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Doctors Soon To Be Awash In Penalty Tsunami
Anyone under the impression that doctors don’t like technology in general might be mistaken. Rather, what many share distaste for is meaningful use. Read More »
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Doctors Tell All—And It’s Bad
A crop of books by disillusioned physicians reveals a corrosive doctor-patient relationship at the heart of our health-care crisis...
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Doctors Use Mobile Apps to Access Real-time Patient Information
In the past, the health care industry was often behind the curve when it came to work-management technology, he said. But now, hospital staff can't keep up with physicians' demands for patient data access via mobile devices. Read More »
Documentary Explores Use Of Antibiotics In Food Animals
On Tuesday night, PBS aired FRONTLINE’s two-part documentary exploring the increasing prevalence of antibiotic resistance. The first half of “The Trouble with Antibiotics” focused on the science and politics behind the widespread use of antibiotics in food animals, presenting the history of the practice and attempts to link human illnesses back to animal antibiotics...
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Documents Reveal How Poultry Firms Systematically Feed Antibiotics To Flocks
Major U.S. poultry firms are administering antibiotics to their flocks far more pervasively than regulators realize, posing a potential risk to human health. Internal records examined by Reuters reveal that some of the nation’s largest poultry producers routinely feed chickens an array of antibiotics – not just when sickness strikes, but as a standard practice over most of the birds’ lives...
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DoD And Tech Firms Face Daunting Health-IT Challenge
"The DoD's electronic health record program is a large and extremely complex undertaking. There are a number of different vendors, players, technologies, organizations and politics involved, resulting in tremendous barriers to overcome," said eHealth Initiative CEO Jennifer Covich Bordenick. "That doesn't mean it is impossible to execute DHMSM successfully -- but it will be a difficult feat."...
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DOD Considering Open Source EHR System
PwC proposes bid to the Department of Defense that would transform the department’s IT management to heighten quality and efficiency...
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DoD EHR 'Substantially' Defined In Latest Draft RFP
After several draft versions, a request for proposal for the Defense Department's highly-anticipated electronic health record is taking shape...
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DoD EHR Selection, Interoperability With VA In Omnibus Bill
Omnibus bill places requirements on the DoD and VA concerning their EHR selection, optimization, and interoperability projects...
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DoD Finds Health Problems Similar To What VA Faces
The Defense Department has acknowledged systemic problems in the vast Military Health System (MHS) for active-duty and retired troops similar to the pattern of poor care and management that has plagued the Department of Veterans Affairs...
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DOD Gets Feedback From Industry On Planned EHR System
The Department of Defense is getting help from industry in scoping out the minimum infrastructure specifications required to support deployment of an enterprise-wide electronic health record system. Among the technology areas that DOD is trying to get a handle on are hosting, network, device, and site characteristics information for its new EHR system.
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DOD Health Record Procurement To 'Lead The Way' On Interoperability
...A new cross-cutting organization, the Defense Health Agency, was launched as a military shared service. Since being announced in September 2013, DHA has opened nine of its 10 shared service areas, including health IT...
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DoD Healthcare Exec Pushes $11 Billion IT Upgrade, But Unwittingly Reveals Why It Won’t Work
On March 25, the program executive overseeing a proposed modernization of the military healthcare records system testified before the Senate’s defense appropriations subcommittee. Christopher A. Miller urged committee members to support a costly upgrade to the way in which the healthcare records of military personnel and their dependents are stored and shared — which at a projected price-tag of $11 billion will be the biggest investment in an electronic health record system ever undertaken. If past experience with such IT projects is any indication it will end up costing a lot more, but that’s not the real problem. The real problem, as Miller unwittingly revealed in his testimony, is an acquisition strategy that can’t deliver what the department needs... Read More »
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DOD moves forward with department-wide e-health records project
The Defense Department has taken another step in its quest to create a new, departmentwide electronic health record. Read More »
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