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MSF On Ebola: “This Is The Biggest Outbreak We’ve Ever Known”
...Since then, Ebola has spread to the neighboring countries of Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria. By September 8, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated the virus had infected 4,290 people and killed 2,296 of them — figures that the organization earlier said might actually be “two to four times higher than that currently reported” in areas of high transmission. WHO warned that the epidemic could infect more than 20,000 people before it is contained...
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My HealtheVet celebrates 10th anniversary
First it was my My HealtheVet (www.myhealth.va.gov), the personal health record [PHR] used by the Veterans Health Administration. Then it was BlueButton, which spawned BlueButton+. One way or another, the Veterans Administration continues to lead the way into the health record digital age, not only for veterans and Medicare beneficiaries, but for the private sector as well. Read More »
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My HealtheVet Personal Health Record (PHR) for Military & Veterans' use
My HealtheVet (MHV) is the gateway to veteran health benefits and services. It provides access to trusted health information, links to Federal and VA benefits and resources, the Personal Health Journal, and now online VA prescription refill. In the future, MHV registrants will be able to view appointments, copay balances, and key portions of their VA medical records online, and much more! My HealtheVet is a powerful tool to help you better understand and manage your health. Read More »
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My Interview With Dr. Terry Wahls On Paleo Principles, Functional Medicine And Adopting Healthy Behaviors
...Dr. Terry Wahls, a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Iowa, also lives with secondary progressive MS. She was confined to a tilt-recline wheelchair for four years, and decided to change her prognosis by studying research and acquainting herself with functional medicine...
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My Plan To Blow Up Meaningful Use And Make It Useful
...The government gave $36 billion of "shovel ready" (Sorry, I just love the irony of the shovel ready stimulus being only half spent 5 years later) stimulus money for Electronic Health Records (EHR) and wanted to make sure that doctors would actually be "meaningful users" of the EHR software. Where this falls apart is that much of meaningful or that many of the meaning has already been achieved...
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Nanowire Ink Printed Paper Sensor Reduces Diagnostic Cost
University of Tennessee‘s Anming Hu, Southeast University‘s Rhou-Zhou Li and and colleagues are printing conductive ink on paper to create low cost, lightweight, foldable, paper based sensors...
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NASA Goes Open Source
NASA says it will publicly releases code for many of the systems the space organization has used through the years making your DIY satellite now closer than ever.
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NASA's Spinoff Technologies Are Outta This World
NASA's technology is often repurposed for commercial use. How do you think we got ear thermometers, LEDs or scratch-resistant glass lenses? Here are a few ways the next wave of NASA tech will benefit the rest of us.
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NATE Creates Bridge of Trust Between Providers and Patients
The National Association for Trusted Exchange (NATE) today announced that the new NATE Blue Button for Consumers (NBB4C) Trust Bundle officially went live this week. Inaugural participants in the NBB4C Trust Community include some of the most widely used consumer health applications, including: Read More »
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NATE To Transfer Administration Of Nation’s First Trust Bundle For Provider Systems To CAHIE
The California Association of Health Information Exchanges (CAHIE) and the National Association for Trusted Exchange (NATE) are pleased to announce their collaboration to more effectively enable health information sharing among providers and between providers and consumers. As part of the collaboration, NATE will transition administration of NATE’s Provider-to-Provider Trust Bundle to CAHIE. NATE established the Provider-to-Provider Trust Bundle in November 2012 as the first national framework dedicated to facilitating Direct messaging among providers. The trust bundle currently enables exchange among organizations across the nation, including in California, Oregon, Utah, and Alaska. CAHIE will assume operation of the Provider-to-Provider Trust Bundle beginning October 9, 2015, and will complete the transition over the next few months. Read More »
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National Association for Trusted Exchange to administer Blue Button Plus Trust Bundles, initiating a second phase of NATE PHR Pilot
The National Association for Trusted Exchange (NATE) is pleased to begin supporting the Blue Button Plus Initiative to help patients and providers securely exchange electronic health information...NATE will administer the Consumer Trust Bundles, which are a way for participating patients and providers to indicate their involvement in the Blue Button Initiative.
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National Patient Data Matching Strategy: Algorithm Challenge
The announcement last week that ONC will be launching a Patient Matching Algorithm Challenge is the next big step in the health IT community’s efforts to ensure patient safety through advancements in interoperability. As a community, we’ve been working on the patient data matching issue for many years. HIMSS has worked very closely with our friends across the healthcare community to understand the barriers to accurate, efficient matching of patients to their health information...
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Nature Communications Goes Open Access
Nature Communications has announced it will go open access only from 20 October in a bid to show the world that quality papers do not have to be paid for...
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Nature Publishing Group Builds On Success In China With New Open Access Journal
Nature Publishing Group has cemented its partnership with the Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences (SIBS) by renewing the contract for Cell Research for a second time and by launching a new open access journal, Cell Discovery. Cell Discovery will be China's first broad-spectrum life science open access journal...
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Navigation, It’s Not Just For Cars: Mapbox And Scoot Optimize The Nav System For 2 Wheels
Navigation may have found its initial home in the car dashboard, but there are many different modes of transportation we use from feet to bikes to skis that can all benefit from some turn-by-turn directions. San Francisco’s scooter-sharing startup Scoot is a good case in point.
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