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Top 10 Medical Research Trends To Watch In 2013
Congress has pushed the date of the "sequester" off another two months, delaying the prospect of automatic 8.2 percent cuts in the budgets of NIH, FDA, and other federal science programs. But a sequester (or other cuts) could still happen. [...] Read More »
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Top 12 Reasons Health Providers Pay too Much for IT
Healthcare pays more than any other industry for information technology. At least according to a new survey. "Our analysis shows healthcare organizations pay an average 17 percent more than that of the other 29 industries we sampled," write the authors of a paper by Net(net), which bills itself as a consultancy specializing in IT optimization, "and 33 percent more than the industry with the lowest average costs (food service).” Read More »
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Top 4 Care-Transition Benefits Of DoD, VA Joint iEHR
Caring for the nation's service members has never been easy. Providing world-class medical attention for the men and women of the Armed Forces from the front lines to the hospitals and clinics of the Veterans Administration (VA) is a daunting task that entails massive logistical and data hurdles. Read More »
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Top 5 Things Investors Look For In A Fundable Digital Health Startup
Dr. Saif Abed shares his top five key investment criteria when reviewing a digital health startup. Read More »
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Top HIT Trends For 2014: Accelerated Change Is Coming
Healthcare IT News recently published a series of articles looking back at the incredible progress HIT has made over the last decade. The last nine quarters in particular, starting not surprisingly when Meaningful Use checks got posted for EMR implementation, have seen remarkable accelerated change. [...] Read More »
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Top Medicare Prescribers Rake In Speaking Fees From Drugmakers
When the blood pressure drug Bystolic hit the market in 2008, it faced a crowded field of cheap generics. So its maker, Forest Laboratories, launched a promotional assault [...]. It flooded the offices of health professionals with drug reps, and it hired doctors to persuade their peers to choose Bystolic — even though the drug hadn't proved more effective than competitors. Read More »
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Top Ten Healthcare Quotes For 2013
This list is by no means comprehensive – it’s simply a list of ten quotes I heard (or saw) throughout the year that made me grab a keyboard. Read More »
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TPP And Microtest Sign Up For MIG
More than 99% of UK GPs will be able to share patient data following the integration of TPP and Microtest with the Medical Interoperability Gateway. Read More »
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Tracking Healthcare Innovation At The World's End
Afghanistan doesn't come to mind when you ask me to list some of the top crucibles of innovation in healthcare right now. [...] Adversity, however, can be a prerequisite for change. Read More »
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Tragedy In Kenya
Many of you are already aware that over this past weekend in Kenya, gunmen attacked a shopping center in Nairobi, taking hostages, killing many people, and wounding many more. The many images and stories that have come through the news outlets sadden us all within the OpenMRS community. [...] Read More »
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Transformation of Health System Needed to Improve Care and Reduce Costs
America's health care system has become too complex and costly to continue business as usual, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine. Read More »
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Translating the Insurance Industry's Feel-good Rhetoric
Health insurers avoided their worst case scenario last week — the prospect of the Supreme Court striking down the individual mandate but letting the rest of the health care law, especially profit-threatening consumer protections, go forward. Now the industry can focus on a goal it has had all along: getting rid of those pesky consumer protections. Read More »
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Translation Of Research Into Practice For Post-Stroke Care Goes National
Researcher-clinicians from the Regenstrief Institute, the Department of Veterans Affairs and Indiana University School of Medicine are leading a national effort to coordinate and organize acute stroke care across the entire VA medical system. Read More »
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Trauma and Technology: New Tools Teach Veterans, Clinicians about PTSD
The departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs are developing a host of tools online and on smartphones to help veterans dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder. I wrote in today’s Globe about some of the new technologies, including an online treatment program for people with PTSD symptoms and heavy alcohol use designed by Boston researchers. Read More »
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Trauma-Care Quality Improvement Needs National Focus
The ability to objectively measure and compare the quality and long-term outcomes of trauma care nationwide will be imperative under the new health-care payment models that are evolving, UC Davis Institute for Population Health Improvement Director Kenneth W. Kizer told attendees of the Trauma Quality Improvement Program (TQIP) meeting of the American College of Surgeons last month. Read More »
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