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Traveling Abroad? Careful What You Carry Back… In Your Guts
If you do any kind of challenging travel — adventure travel, backpacking, even just going to less-developed parts of the world — you’ve probably evolved some sort of protective routine. [...] But a new study just published in EuroSurveillance, the peer-reviewed journal of Europe’s equivalent of the CDC, raises the possibility that even if you are doing the right thing, you could pick up some very nasty stuff while you’re abroad [...]. Read More »
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Trial Designed With Crowd Input Gets FDA Signoff
What's been called the first clinical study protocol developed using crowdsourcing methods received the FDA's imprimatur earlier this month. The agency approved Transparency Life Sciences' IND for a clinical trial designed to test a generic blood-pressure medication, ACE inhibitor lisinopril, in patients with relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis. Read More »
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Tricare Networks Eyed To Improve Veterans' Access To Care
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has proposed opening military Tricare networks of civilian health care providers to veterans who can’t get timely mental health care from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Read More »
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Troops With Traumatic Brain Injury Show Symptoms 5 Years Later
A high proportion of the 273,859 troops diagnosed with traumatic brain injury since the start of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq continued to experience “significant symptoms and problems” five years after injury, the Pentagon said in its first take on a 15-year TBI study mandated by Congress. Read More »
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Trove Of Medical Devices Found To Have Password Problems
Surgical devices, ventilators, defibrillators, and monitors are among the equipment at risk. Read More »
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Trusting Healthcare Data
Healthcare is generating data at an unprecedented rate. EHR software is becoming a large repository of healthcare data. [...] We’re surrounded by healthcare data. The question is: How do we make sure they trust the data? Read More »
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Trying To Lower Readmissions? Give Your Patients A Health App
On October 1 2012, the CMS Readmission Reduction Program kicked in - much to the consternation of 2,217 hospitals that will be penalized. This followed 18 months of hand wringing that began when the program was introduced as part of the Affordable Care Act in March 2010. Read More »
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Two Articles About Openness For Healthcare IT
EHI have reported the openGPSoC meeting we held on Saturday - Funding needed for openGPSoC. Read More »
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Two Competing Clinical Code Groups Team Up
Two not-for-profit standards-development organizations, producers of once-competing clinical codes, SNOMED-CT and LOINC, have reached a 10-year collaborative agreement to work together to “improve safety, functionality and interoperability for the rapidly growing number of clinicians who manage and exchange health data with electronic medical records.” Read More »
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Two Healthcare Leaders Become Patients And Are Enraged By The Billing Bureaucracy September
There is nothing like a dose of reality to change your perspective...This is why all hospital CEOs and medical device executives should be a patient at a hospital on a regular basis...
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Two recent surveys of patients and their healthcare providers in the U.S.
Two recent surveys that showing general dissatisfaction with the healthcare industry amongst patients and their healthcare providers. The two surveys offer some interesting insight into the current state of affairs.
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U of Michigan & VA Hospitals Strengthening Ties To Provide More Clinical Research
The University of Michigan and the Ann Arbor Veterans Administration Health System are strengthening ties in an effort to provide more research to help those who have served. The organizations recently announced 150 researchers from the Ann Arbor VA Center for Clinical Management Research will move from... Read More »
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U.S. Department Of Veteran Affairs Awards $28.8 Million TeleHealth Contract To AMC Health
AMC Health, a leading provider of telehealth solutions, announced today that the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) has awarded the company a five-year contract worth up to $28.8 million to provide telehealth solutions and services... Read More »
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U.S. Economic Woes Ripple All the Way to Latin America
The national recession didn’t just hit people living in the U.S. – it’s made it more difficult for people to pay for medical bills in poor countries like Honduras, new University of Michigan Health System research shows. Read More »
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U.S. Paid Extra $13 Billion for Some Veterans' Care: Study
The U.S. government paid billions of dollars for the medical care of some older veterans twice, according to a new study published on Tuesday. Read More »
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