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CMS: Meaningful Use EHR Incentives Hit $12.3B In February
With some healthcare providers now into their second year of meaningful use reporting, Medicare and Medicaid electronic health record payments were estimated at $12.3 billion paid to a total of 219,000 physicians and hospitals through February since the program’s inception. Read More »
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CMS: Stage 2 And Stage 3 Of Meaningful Use Will Be Extended
CMS and the ONC have announced that the next two phases of the EHR Incentive Programs will be extended in order to provide more time for professionals to adapt to the increased requirements and give rule makers a chance to examine the industry’s progress. Read More »
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Co-op Scheme Aims To Boost Farmers’ Profits
An ambitions new agricultural development project backed by a former US diplomat is aiming to dramatically revamp the sector and bring profits back into the hands of farmers. Read More »
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Coalition: Meaningful Use Stage 3 Must Focus On Care Disparities
Last week the Consumer Partnership for eHealth — a coalition of more than 50 consumer, patient and labor groups — published an action plan aimed at ensuring that Stage 3 of the meaningful use program focuses on health care disparities, Healthcare IT News reports. Read More »
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COAR Presented At The ETD 2012 In Peru
A COAR poster was presented by Fernando Ardito, from the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Peru, member of LA REFERENCIA, at the 15th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD 2012) held in Lima, Peru. Read More »
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COAR Response To EC Communication And Recommendation
COAR acknowledges and very much supports the open access vision of the EU Commission as a worldwide trend and will join the EU Commission effort to develop an interoperable and sustainable global scientific infrastructure and to inspire other countries in the world to develop their own open access policies.
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COAR Strategy And Workplan Published
The finalised COAR Strategy 2012-2015 and Work Plan 2012-2013 as approved by the Executive Board have been published now. Read More »
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Coding Sub-Zero
Despite a lack of heating and a rather unreliable internet connection, spirits were high at NHS Hack Day, Oxford. Lis Evenstad reports. Read More »
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Coffee Farmers to Receive Warnings on Storms Via Texts
More than 7500 coffee farmers in Kenya could start receiving message prompts with warnings on storms and plagues by the end of the year, says IICD. The automated SMS system that connects farmers mobile phones to a central computer is expected to enable farmers around Nairobi and Mount Kenya receive the messages on the phones through an early SMS warning system. Read More »
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Cognitive Medical Systems Names Retired Navy CAPT Emory Fry CMIO
Cognitive Medical Systems, an emerging specialist in standards-based, clinical decision support software solutions for healthcare organizations, today introduced recently retired U.S. Navy CAPT Emory Fry as their Chief Medical Informatics Officer (CMIO). Read More »
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Cognosante Acquires Business Information Technology Solutions to Expand Military and Veterans Health IT Business
Cognosante and Business Information Technology Solutions (BITS) announced today that Cognosante has acquired BITS, a rapidly growing provider of IT services and solutions to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). BITS, also known as The BITS Group, has more than a decade of experience in healthcare systems, enterprise business systems, business intelligence, and data analytics in the public health sector. It is one of the prime contractors of the VA’s $22.3 billion Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology Next Generation (T4NG).
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Colectica Releases Open Source Blaise to DDI Metadata Converter
Colectica is proud to announce the launch of new open source metadata converter project hosted on GitHub. The first released component of the project is a Blaise survey system to Data Documentation Initiative (DDI-Lifecycle) converter. The Blaise to DDI utlity can produce standardized metadata documentation about the questions, codelists, and survey flow contained in a Blaise survey. Read More »
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CollabNet Selected by AlwaysOn as an AlwaysOn Global 250 Winner
CollabNet...today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the AlwaysOn Global 250 winners. Inclusion in the AlwaysOn Global 250 signifies leadership amongst its peers and game-changing approaches and technologies that are likely to disrupt existing markets and entrenched players in the Global Silicon Valley.
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Collabnet's New TeamForge Delivers Integration, Visibility and Reporting for ALM and Enterprise Cloud Development
Collabnet's New TeamForge Delivers Integration, Visibility and Reporting for ALM and Enterprise Cloud Development
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Collaboration To Develop Multi-Sensor Management Software Architecture
Kitware, in collaboration with the Neuroengineering and Medical Robotics Laboratory at the Polytechnic Institute of Milan, has developed a centralized, multi-sensor management software architecture for distributed computer-integrated surgery (CIS) systems. Read More »
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