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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Nightingale Teams With NexJ To Deliver Health Information To Patients

Press Release | Nightingale, NexJ | March 25, 2014

Nightingale Electronic Health Record system to offer expanded capabilities for patient engagement and activation through an interface to NexJ Connected Wellness....NexJ Systems Inc., (TSX: NXJ), a provider of cloud-based software delivering enterprise solutions to the financial services, insurance, and healthcare industries, and Nightingale Informatix Corp., one of North America’s largest cloud-based Electronic Health Record (EHR) companies, today announced an agreement to integrate NexJ Connected Wellness with the Nightingale On Demand EHR system.

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NIH And VA Address Pain And Related Conditions In U.S. Military Personnel, Veterans, And Their Families

Press Release | National Institutes of Health , Department of Veterans Affairs | September 25, 2014

Thirteen research projects totaling approximately $21.7 million over 5 years will explore nondrug approaches to managing pain and related health conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), drug abuse, and sleep issues. The effort seeks to enhance options for the management of pain and associated problems in U.S. military personnel, veterans, and their families...

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NIH Big Data Effort Focuses On Better Knowledge From Existing Data

Susan D.Hall | Fierce Health IT | May 12, 2014

Big data is transforming biomedical research, National Institutes of Health director Francis S. Collins writes in a blog post announcing an initiative called Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K).  To illustrate his point, Collins points to the work of Atul Butte of Stanford University, a NIH-funded researcher looking among mountains of existing data to find new links among genes, diseases and traits.

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NIH Launches 3D Print Exchange For Researchers, Students

Press Release | National Institutes of Health | June 18, 2014

The National Institutes of Health has launched the NIH 3D Print Exchange, a public website that enables users to share, download and edit 3D print files related to health and science. These files can be used, for example, to print custom laboratory equipment and models of bacteria and human anatomy.

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NIH launches LiverTox public web site

Anthony Brino | Government Health IT | October 15, 2012

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has launched a database of pharmaceutical drugs associated with liver damage. The database, called LiverTox, is free for healthcare researchers and providers and has information on more than 700 pharmaceuticals, with another 300 set to be added in the coming years.

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NIMH Expands Support For Open Source RexDB®, Funds New $450,000 Grant

Press Release | Prometheus Research, National Institute of Mental Health | May 14, 2014

Prometheus Research, an integrated data management services provider, has been awarded $450,000 by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to extend its Open Source Research Exchange Database (RexDB) for the management of anxiety disorders research, and more broadly, interventional research. The announcement comes on the heels of a $350K funding renewal for a previous SBIR grant to extend RexDB for autism research...

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Nineteen VA Medical Centers runing VistA EHR System make Joint Commission's Top Performer List

Press Release | WSJ MarketWatch | October 11, 2012

Nineteen Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities from across the Nation were recently recognized by The Joint Commission as top performers on key health care quality measures for 2011/2012. Read More »

NIST Proposes New Set Of Guidelines For ‘Building Trustworthy Resilient Systems’

Ravi Mandalia | Techie News | May 14, 2014

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a draft set of new guidelines aimed at developing and improving security of critical systems and software.  

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NIST's Dream: Integrating Security Into Design

Sean Lyngaas | FCW | May 14, 2014

The National Institute of Standards and Technology hopes its new guidelines for IT security will beget a systems engineering process in which security is intrinsic to product design rather than an afterthought.  The guidelines, posted May 12, offer best practices for information systems security based on international engineering standards...

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No Longer Why Open Source, But How To Do Open Source

Mark Hinkle | Open Source Delivers | May 7, 2014

Fifteen years ago I spent a good deal of my time evangelizing open source software...Today I spend more time educating perspective open source participants on how they can leverage open source to reduce development costs, improve operational efficiency and drive customization for their own purposes.

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No New VA Patient Scheduling System Until 2016

Bob Brewin | Nextgov.com | July 24, 2014

The Department of Veterans Affairs will not field a new patient scheduling system to replace its existing system until 2016, Acting VA Secretary Sloan Gibson told a House VA committee hearing today...

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No New VA Patient Scheduling System Until 2020 (Updated)

Bob Brewin | Nextgov.com | September 26, 2014

...The Department of Veterans Affairs will not install a new patient scheduling system to all of its 153 hospitals and 50,000 users until 2020, according to contract documents released last week...

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No Place To Hide: A Conservative Critique Of A Radical NSA

Conor Friedersdorf | The Atlantic | May 14, 2014

Glenn Greenwald's new book is far more grounded in traditional American norms, laws, and values than the surveillance programs it is critiquing...

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No Room In Health Care for Users

Giovanni Colella | LinkedIn Blog | November 25, 2013

The front page of this morning’s Wall Street Journal featured an important story about one of the most important trends in health care today: the rise of consumerism.  For many years, most people had “first-dollar” coverage, where effectively they were paying for all their medical care with someone else’s credit card.

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Nobel Laureates’ Publications Made Open Access In SPIE Digital Library

Press Release | SPIE | October 10, 2014

Nobel Prizes announced this week in Physics and Chemistry demonstrate photonics as a “powerful, enabling technology that drives innovation and discovery and stimulates new fields,” noted leaders of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. The society is making research papers by the six recipients published in the SPIE Digital Library freely accessible through the end of 2014...

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