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Local Health Information Exchanges may be the key to NHIN
Physicians appear to be more interested in local, rather than state or regional, health information exchanges, believing that close-to-home networks are better equipped to meet their needs, according to a survey of exchanges in the U.S. Read More »
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Looking Back At A 2014: Thermidor For Health Care Reform?
As money drains out of health care reform, there are indications that the impetus for change is receding as well...
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Low-Carb on Trial (Galileo Had It Easy)
A recent exposé in the New York Times[1] revealed massive and pervasive fraud and collusion between the sugar industry and certain medical authorities in the 1960’s designed to erroneously promote saturated fat as the culprit behind heart disease. Effectively diverting attention from the real source of the problem (the increasing consumption of dietary sugar), the food industry conspired with key authorities within the medical establishment to serve their own best interests at the expense of public health. Historic documents showed that they were intentionally concealing the fact that sugar, instead of fat, was knowingly to blame...
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Luis Ibáñez to be Interviewed in vxJourney Program on Thursday
Luis Ibáñez, one of the best known advocates of open source solutions in healthcare will be interviewed Thursday, May 1, by Fabian Lopez in the popular vxJourney weekly webinar. Ibáñez a contributing author to Open Health News as well as other publications, in particular Opensource.com, will talk about the VistA course that he has been teaching at the State University of New York at Albany. Read More »
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Luis Sosa, Technology Innovation For All In Latin America
Convinced that technology is not a privilege but a right for all, visionary Luis Sosa has positioned his company to expand access to mobile technology and create a connected global community. Latin America is leading the global mobile growth trend and has become an open field for fierce competition among manufacturers and carriers.
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Lurking Healthcare Technology and Financial System Crises Increase Demand for Control Experts in 2017, Says Black Book Annual Healthcare PR Survey
Black Book's annual poll of public relations and crisis management firm clients noted the key shift from past years' workforce issues, physician satisfaction and medico-legal problems, to the reputation-challenging technology and financial problems facing both provider and payers in 2017. The potential catastrophes caused by technology-related events ranked first on the 2017 list compiled from healthcare industry executives, followed by financial issues, patient dissatisfaction events, nursing staff issues, clinical and disease emergencies, hospital performance outcomes and patient safety mishaps, and social media impacts...
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Lynn Cites Progress in DOD, VA Partnership
The partnership to ensure seamless transitions for wounded warriors from military to Veterans Affairs medical care has made significant progress, but work remains to be done, Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III said here today. Read More »
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MACRA: Big Fix or Big Problem?
In January 2017, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) took effect, ushering in a new system for physician payment in Medicare. With MACRA, policymakers ended the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) method for updating physician fees in Medicare and provided a permanent “doc fix,” relieving Congress of its annual duty to override substantial fee cuts that the SGR would have imposed. In place of the SGR, MACRA instituted the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), which intends to reward clinicians for providing higher-quality and lower-cost care...
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Made In Kenya, Assembled In America: This Internet-Anywhere Company Innovates From Silicon Savannah
BRCK's device keeps people connected no matter where they are on Earth. And in a reversal of globalization, it's made in America, for the rest of the world...
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Maine HIE Grows Analytics
Knowledge is power, and the leaders of Maine's statewide health information exchange know it. That's why they've focused on not merely delivering information, but also on putting the vast amount of data they collect to work on helping providers give the best care they can...
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Major Players Bid For Slice Of Federal Health Records Pie
Four teams of contractors so far have indicated they want in on the DoD's massive electronic health records program. While each of the teams presents formidable resources in healthcare IT, to some degree no group has a complete, ready-to-go, solution, said IDC's Scott Lundstrom...
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Making A Case For Open Access
Depending on the audience, the case for open access (OA) varies. Opponents of intellectual property, for example, may favor OA simply on principle...
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Making Medicare Data Useful
Medicare’s release of physician reimbursement data is “unprecedented data” at work, as U.S. CTO Todd Park wrote. But what will researchers, and ultimately seniors and taxpayers, be able to learn from it?
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Making Nuclear Energy Cheap: The View From The Breakthrough Institute
The report illuminates four major factors inherent in the successful operation and deployment of nuclear reactors – including new designs – and then explores them in the context of Generation III and Generation IV reactors...
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Making Patients The 'Hub' Of Their Own Healthcare
National Health IT Week is officially underway in Washington, DC, and it's only fitting that interoperability and patient engagement are the primary themes being discussed...
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