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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Microsoft May Be Planning Its Own Platform Play With HealthVault + Smartwatch Combo

Mark Sullivan | MedCity News | June 22, 2014

Rumors of a new health-focused wristwatch from Microsoft have been swirling for some time now, and a digital health industry source told VentureBeat that those rumors are true...

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Microsoft Might Finally Be Committing To Open Source

Nikhil Sonnad | Quartz | July 23, 2014

Microsoft is known for keeping its programming secrets to itself. But under CEO Satya Nadella, the maker of proprietary behemoths like Windows and Microsoft Office is starting to show up in the world of open-source software, whose code is public for anyone to see, borrow from and tinker with...

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Microsoft Promises To Stop Reading Your Emails

Brendan Sasso | Nextgov.com | March 31, 2014

Microsoft is in full damage-control mode after it sparked a public backlash by snooping on the emails of a blogger.  The company said Friday that it will no longer go through the emails of users who are suspected of stealing physical or intellectual property from Microsoft.

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Microsoft Taps Former Linux-Bashing Team To Get Open Source Developers Excited About Azure Cloud

Kevin McLaughlin | CRN | May 27, 2014

Microsoft has changed the mission of an internal team that used to highlight shortcomings in open source software, and is now using it to recruit open source developers.  

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Microsoft Taps Into mHealth

Erin McCann | Healthcare IT News | August 21, 2014

With nearly 26 million Americans living with diabetes -- and racking up $245 billion in costs each year -- many stakeholders have been looking for innovative ways to help those individuals better keep tabs on their condition. With its new mobile health project, Microsoft is the latest company to offer a diabetes management platform...

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Microsoft, Red Hat Improve Container Adoption for Healthcare

Press Release | Red Hat, Inc., Microsoft Corp. | August 22, 2017

Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT) today announced an expansion of the two companies’ alliance with plans for new initiatives aimed at enabling enterprises to more easily adopt containers. This includes native support for Windows Server containers on Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated on Microsoft Azure, and SQL Server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift. These additions to the companies’ joint roadmap will focus on simplifying container technologies to help enterprise customers increase the agility and drive digital transformation using hybrid cloud.

Microsoft, Satya Nadella, Sing The Praises Of Open Source And Linux

Sam Dean | OSTATIC | October 21, 2014

Has Microsoft finally, truly warmed up to Linux and open source? New CEO Satya Nadella is definitely pushing that notion...

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Microsoft-Backed VetAfrica App Helps EA Farmers In Disease Diagnosis

Susan Mwenesi | Human IPO | July 1, 2014

Microsoft has partnered Glasgow-based tech company Cojengo to develop software seeking to provide East African farmers with innovative diagnostic tools and disease surveillance data.

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Midland Memorial Hospital Integrates Patient Education Tool with OpenVista EHR

Press Release | Midland Memorial Hospital , Allen Technologies | November 18, 2014

Midland Memorial Hospital is launching its latest evolution in leading-edge interactive patient education and engagement with the implementation of Allen Technologies’ with the hospital’s [OpenVistA EHR] platform by enabling nursing staff to assign patient education videos directly from the patient’s EHR.

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Mikey Dickerson: No Paper Pushing At US Digital Service

Jack Moore | Nextgov.com | September 15, 2014

Mikey Dickerson has already bucked Washington convention with his rumpled shirts and notable lack of neckwear.  Now, the head of the U.S. Digital Service, a newly formed White House office responsible for improving government technology projects, is putting the federal IT community on notice: Don’t expect any paper pushing from his office...

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Military Health System CIO talks EHR procurement

Tom Sullivan | Government Health IT | June 18, 2014

David Bowen’s title might be CIO of the Military Health System but these days he calls himself an anthropologist. Read More »

Military Health System Does Not Like Patient Safety Bad News

Bob Brewin | Nextgov.com | October 3, 2014

While the Military Health System received overall good grades in a review ordered by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, the 765-page report, released yesterday, shows staffers in military hospitals feared retaliation for reporting patient safety problems...

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Military Suicides Decline, But Continued Failures Hold Lessons For Future Wars

Molly O'Toole | Defense One | November 23, 2014

...All across the country there are families like Wayne Telford’s. The year his daughter died was one of the worst for suicides in military the since the Pentagon started closely tracking the data in 2002...

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Millennials Want Personal Health Records On The Go

Mike Millard | Healthcare IT News | December 17, 2014

Could younger patients be the key to achieving Stage 2 meaningful use patient access requirements? A new report finds strong desire for online medical records among the 18- to 34-year-old generation, with 43 percent of millennials saying they want to access their portals via smartphone...

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Millions Of Weather Records Pose Big Data Challenge For Scientists

Rose Eveleth | Nextgov.com | August 26, 2014

...The International Environmental Data Rescue Organization (IEDRO) estimates that there are 100 million paper strip charts—records that list weather conditions—sitting in meteorological storage facilities throughout the world. That’s about 200 million observations unused by scientists, data that could greatly improve their models...

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