Health IT News

News clips about general health IT products, organizations, and activities [not open source health IT news] from various news sources, e.g. newspapers, news web sites, magazines, journals, blogs, etc.

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Mental Health Providers Want Patient Tracking, All-In-One EHRs

Jennifer Bresnick | EHR Intelligence | July 25, 2014

For the 33% of mental and behavioral health providers who are still entirely paper-based, integrated practice management and EHR software is at the top of the wish list, according to a new report from Software Advice...

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Merck To Bristol-Myers Face Threats On India Patents (Correct)

Ketaki Gokhale | Bloomberg Businessweek | January 28, 2014

Pharmaceutical companies from Merck & Co. (MRK:US) to Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (BMY:US) face fresh threats to protecting their patents in India as a government-appointed panel prepares to evaluate more drugs for local makers to copy.  The panel is looking beyond the cancer treatments it studied last year to areas such as HIV and diabetes, according to two people with knowledge of the matter, who asked not to be identified because the discussions are private.

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MERS Cases Revealed In Saudi Arabia Raise Questions

Staff Writer | CBC News | June 4, 2014

The World Health Organization and other experts are looking for answers to explain how Saudi Arabia missed or failed to report a substantial number of MERS cases and deaths over the past year...

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MERS Watch: Florida Hospital Staff Exposed

Michael Smith | MedPage Today | May 13, 2014

Two Florida healthcare workers have developed flu-like symptoms after exposure to the second U.S. case of Middle East coronavirus (MERS).  They, and 18 other healthcare workers at two Orlando hospitals, are being tested for the virus, which can cause serious illness and death, medical officials said at a media conference today...

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mHealth Summit Chief Talks About This Year's Highlights

Diana Manos | mHealthNews | December 1, 2014

Provider engagement and integration of mobile health technologies will continue to increase in 2015, according to Rich Scarfo, director of the annual mHealth Summit and vice president of the Personal Connected Health Alliance...

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mHealth Takes On Ebola In Nigeria

Erin McCann | Healthcare IT News | October 23, 2014

In what's being hailed as a "spectacular success story," the World Health Organization has declared Nigeria free of the Ebola virus transmission, with public health agencies and government officials citing a mobile health initiative as largely responsible for the triumph...

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mHealth, Data Analytics See $4.7 Billion In 2014 VC Funding

Jennifer Bresnick | EHR Intelligence | January 16, 2015

The past year saw a $4.7 billion investment in healthcare IT companies, according to a report from Mercom Capital Group, as venture capital firms seek to promote lucrative technologies in the practice-facing and consumer-facing markets.  Data analytics, population health management, and clinical decision support products were among the most likely to grab investor attention in 2014, while mHealth, telehealth, and wearable technologies saw $2.3 billion in major deals...

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mHealth, Health IT Investment Break Records In Q1 Of 2014

Jennifer Bresnick | EHR Intelligence | April 8, 2014

Investment in mobile health and other health IT technologies has been off the charts during the first quarter of 2014, says a new report by Rock Health, continuing the meteoric rise of mobile health technologies funded by more traditional venture capitalists and newfangled crowd-funding campaigns.  Technology companies have already scooped up more than $700 million since January of 2014, representing an 87% year-over-year growth versus the same quarter last year.

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Mick Ebeling Featured Speaker At ALA President’s Program, 2015 Midwinter Meeting

Press Release | American Library Association | October 10, 2014

“Say yes first, ask questions later. Commit, then figure it out,” says Mick Ebeling, who promises ALA Midwinter Meeting attendees an inspiring message about finding creative solutions to real-world problems by looking at them differently. Ebeling will be welcomed by Courtney Young as the featured speaker at the ALA President’s Program from 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 1...

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Mick Ebeling Turns Tragedies Into Technological Breakthroughs

Guy Dixon | The Globe and Mail | June 19, 2014

The act involved great humanism, a 3-D printer and that contemporary need to film it all.  It’s the curious way humanitarianism (and the money to back it) works in modern times. It started when Mick Ebeling read a news article about Daniel Omar, then a 14-year-old Sudanese boy who had lost an arm to a bomb attack.

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Microsoft Announces New Cloud Experience And Tools To Deliver The Cloud Without Complexity

Scott Guthrie | TechNet Blogs | April 3, 2014

On Thursday at Build in San Francisco, we took an important step by unveiling a first-of-its kind cloud environment within Microsoft Azure that provides a fully integrated cloud experience – bringing together cross-platform technologies, services and tools that enable developers and businesses to innovate with enterprise-grade scalability at startup speed. Announced today, our new Microsoft Azure Preview Portal is an important step forward in delivering our promise of the cloud without complexity.

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Microsoft Backs Open Source For The Internet Of Things

Patrick Thibodeau | Computerworld | July 2, 2014

Microsoft has joined what began as a Linux Foundation effort to create an open platform for the Internet of Things. It's a move that may be a telling sign regarding Microsoft's plans for home automation, and even for the Xbox.

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Microsoft Extends Open-Sourcing Spree With Project Orleans

Paul Krill | InfoWorld | December 19, 2014

Hot on the heels of open-sourcing .Net Core, Microsoft does the same with its Orleans cloud computing framework...

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Microsoft In OPEN-SOURCE .Net Love-In With New Foundation

Neil McAllister | The Register | April 4, 2014

Microsoft has opened its .Net programming framework to the developer community by releasing the code for a broad range of .Net-related software as open-source projects under the stewardship of a new, dedicated foundation.  The surprise announcement came during the Thursday keynote at Redmond's annual Build developer conference, taking place this week in San Francisco.

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Microsoft Is Now Irrelevant To Computing, And They Want You To Know It

Charlie Demerjian | SemiAccurate | May 15, 2014

With two major cave-ins in the past few weeks, Microsoft is screaming at the top of its lungs about how irrelevant it is. If you didn’t understand the fall of Microsoft from powerful monopolist to computing afterthought, let SemiAccurate explain it to you...

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