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Dr Terry Wahls Inspirational Health Journey
Dr. Terry Wahls gave a now famous TEDx talk in 2011 where she talked about how she had to look beyond conventional medicine to treat her own multiple sclerosis. Prior to that, she was like many other physicians...
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Dr Wahls’ Super-Nutrient Paleo Diet, That Reversed Her Multiple Sclerosis
I’ve just finished reading “Minding My Mitochondria: How I overcame secondary progressive multiple sclerosis” By Terry Wahls, MD. If you haven’t already see the viral video of Dr Wahls talking about her reversal of Multiple Sclerosis, you must, it is inspiring.
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Dr. Halamka’s Dramatic MU Prediction In Boston
John Halamka, M.D. predicted on May 13 that 80 percent of U.S. hospitals would fail to attest to MU Stage 2 on time
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Dramatic Growth of Open Access First Quarter 2014
Highlights this quarter: three open access initiatives illustrating particularly strong growth this quarter are featured (Directory of Open Access Books, Highwire Press free sites, and PubMedCentral with 5 of the top 15 spots by quarterly growth rate). The number of journals in DOAJ has decreased this quarter; please note that this reflects a vigorous weeding process at DOAJ rather than a decrease in fully open access journals.
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Drug Bust: Generic Drug Prices On the Rise
For 30 years, generic medications helped make health care cheaper. Why is their cost surging?...
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Drug Firms 'To Blame' For Antibiotic Resistance
Drug companies' poor practices are to blame for the rise of antibiotic resistance which threatens to make even the smallest infections deadly, one industry chief executive has claimed...
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Drugs Companies Buy NHS Patient Data, Register Reveals
Some of world's biggest pharmaceutical companies have bought NHS patient data, a new register has revealed. Drugs corporations including Bayer, Baxter, AstraZeneca and Roche are among dozens of private firms sold information, as well as Bupa, the healthcare provider.
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DSS Achieves ONC-ACB Certification by Drummond Group, Inc. For Inpatient And Ambulatory Module EHR Certification
Document Storage Systems, Inc. (DSS), the leading provider of VistA-based software development and support, today announced its customizable vxVistA inpatient and ambulatory electronic health record (EHR) modules have been tested and certified under the Office of the National Coordinator Authorized Certification Body (ONC-ACB) program through Drummond Group, Inc. (DGI) for the 2014 edition. As a result of the certification, hospitals using vxVistA inpatient and ambulatory modules to demonstrate meaningful use of technology are qualified to receive federal stimulus funds...
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DSS donates Patient Search Tool Extension to OSEHRA under Apache License
As a major sponsor of the Open Source Electronic Health Record (EHR) Community, DSS, Inc. is pleased to release the DSS Patient Search Tool Extension and Launcher to the Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent (OSEHRA) via the Apache 2.0 Open Source license. This tool enables clinicians and researchers who use the VistA EHR to quickly search a patient’s entire electronic record for free text data that might otherwise be scattered throughout the chart. Read More »
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DSS hands open source search tool over to OSEHRA
Document Storage Systems has released to the Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent an open source tool that enables clinicians who use the VistA EHR to search a patient's record for free text data that might otherwise be scattered throughout the chart. Read More »
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DUDE, WHERE'S MY CAR? New Leccy BMWs Have Flimsy Password Security – Researcher
New BMW cars have security shortcomings that could allow thieves to pop open a victim's flash motor from a smartphone...
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Duke Liberates Epic EHR Data with Apple HealthKit and FHIR
Duke Medicine claims to be the first Epic-based health system to implement the Fast Health Information Resources application programming interface in conjunction with Apple's HealthKit within a live environment. FHIR is an emerging interoperability protocol that was all the rage at HIMSS15 and appears to be even hotter going into HIMSS16...
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Dutch Ban Poultry Transport Over ‘Highly Pathogenic’ Bird Flu Strain
The Netherlands has discovered a “highly pathogenic” bird flu virus that can be transmitted to humans. The authorities have banned poultry transport throughout the country...
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Dutch Universities Dig In For Long Fight Over Open Access
Dutch universities have vowed not to soften their groundbreaking demands for publishers to permit all papers published by their academics to be made open access for no extra charge...
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E-Learning In Africa: Massive, Online And Free
Coming to a laptop near you, the Brazilian model of free online learning that could revolutionise African education.
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