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Lawmakers Pessimistic On VA-DoD E-Records Plan
Mike Viterna, president of the National Organization of Veterans’ Advocates, said in an interview that the importance of improving the military health records system can’t be overemphasized. “These inefficiencies delay necessary care and compromise that care,” Viterna said. “People need their records for disability claims. They’re being underserved.”... Read More »
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Learn the Secrets of Building a Business with Open Source
Today, if you’re building a new product or service, open source software is likely playing a role. But many entrepreneurs and product managers still struggle with how to build a successful business purely on open source. The big secret of a successful open source business is that “it’s about way more than the code,” says John Mark Walker, a well-known voice in the open source world with extensive expertise in open source product, community, and ecosystem creation at Red Hat and Dell EMC. “In order to build a certified, predictable, manageable product that ‘just works,’ it requires a lot more effort than just writing good code.”...
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Lessons From The ACA Health Insurance Marketplace Failure
One can’t pass a single day it seems without seeing in the news coverage of the problems with the Affordable Care Act’s Health Insurance Marketplace (HIM). But what is perhaps most surprising is not that the web site had problems, but that people are surprised that it had problems. [...] Read More »
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Many CIOs Support IT Reform Legislation
Many government chief information officers think a proposed congressional overhaul that would give them broader authority over how their agencies buy information technology is a “step in the right direction,” according to TechAmerica’s CIO Insights survey released Thursday. Read More »
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Marin General Hospital Nurses Warn That New Computer System Is Causing Errors, Call For Time Out
Of course, the ever-present euphemism for life-threatening EHR malfunctions and defects, i.e., "glitches" are the cause... Read More »
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Marin General Hospital Nurses Warn That New Computer System Is Causing Errors, Call For Time Out
Nurses at Marin General Hospital have asked administrators to put implementation of a new computerized physician order entry system on hold until glitches can be worked out and more training provided to nurses and doctors who use it. Read More »
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MAVC: Open For Business
Making All Voices Count (MAVC) is a global initiative that supports innovation, scaling-up, and research to deepen existing innovations and help harness new technologies to enable citizen engagement and government responsiveness. This Grand Challenge focuses global attention on creative and cutting-edge solutions [...] to ensure the voices of all citizens are heard and that governments have the capacity, as well as the incentive, to listen and respond. Read More »
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Microsoft and Partners Combine the Cloud, AI, Research and Industry Expertise to Focus on Transforming Health Care
...Healthcare NExT, a new initiative to dramatically transform health care, will deeply integrate greenfield research and health technology product development, as well as establish a new model at Microsoft for strategic health industry partnerships. Through these collaborations between health care partners and Microsoft’s AI and Research organization, our goal is to enable a new wave of innovation and impact using Microsoft’s deep AI expertise and global-scale cloud.This initiative includes investments in resources for our partners to capture new opportunities to apply AI to healthcare, such as the Microsoft AI in Health Partner Alliance, an expanding group of partners focused on advancing health technology. Alliance members will receive unique training and access to Microsoft technologies, engineering expertise and data sets. Read More »
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Miller: President Obama Must Help Stop Patient Deaths
On May 21, 2013, Chairman Jeff Miller wrote President Obama to request his assistance in addressing a rash of suicides, deaths and other serious patient-care issues at Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers across the country. Read More »
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Most Docs Don’t Want You To See Your Full Electronic Medical Record
Most doctors in the United States think patients should be actively involved in updating their electronic health records, but they don’t want to give them full access to those records, according to a new study by technology consulting firm Accenture. Read More »
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MSF Pioneers Opening Up Access To Humanitarian Data
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is pioneering an open-access approach within the humanitarian sector in the hope that other medical aid organisations will follow suit. Read More »
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New Grant Awarded to Parliamentary Monitoring Group – South Africa!
Indigo has awarded a grant of SA Rand 194,700 (around £12,300) to Parliamentary Monitoring Group South Africa for a new Mzalendo/Odekro-style website for all levels of South African Democracy – from national down to local councils. Read More »
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NY And LA Vets: Take A Long Hike As Your Disability Claims Ripen
The Veterans Affairs Department reports it has a backlog of 898,861 disability claims, with 632,358, or 70.5 percent stuck in the system for over 125 days. Read More »
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Obamacare's Slush Fund Fuels A Broader Lobbying Controversy
A little-noticed part of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act channels some $12.5 billion into a vaguely defined “Prevention and Public Health Fund” over the next decade–and some of that money is going for everything from massage therapists who offer “calming techniques,” to groups advocating higher state and local taxes on tobacco and soda, and stricter zoning restrictions on fast-food restaurants. Read More »
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Obamacare, Open Data Could Drive Health IT Innovation
Government regulations and open data initiatives inspire investment in platforms that support accountable care organizations. Read More »
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