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Boston Marathon Bombing Spotlights Good And Potential Bad Of Social Media, mHealth In Disasters
While Boston area hospitals and police turned to Twitter during Monday’s Marathon Bombing, and Chinese people mourned the tragic loss of a national on social media, several federal agencies spread the word about resources at the ready for disasters. Read More »
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Brand-Name Drugs Pushing Up US Medicare Costs: Survey
People with diabetes who are enrolled in the US federal Medicare health programme are two to three times more likely to use "expensive" brand-name drugs than diabetes patients who are treated within the Veterans Administration (VA) Healthcare System, new research shows. Read More »
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Brazilian Developer Hacks Health Care With BeagleBoard And Android
A few years ago, Brazilian developer Daniel Neis Araujo couldn’t imagine building open source health care equipment that could compete with traditional and respected proprietary solutions. But recent advances in Linux and the open hardware movement have allowed a faster development pace and a lower cost of entry for startups in the telemedicine field, in particular, he said. Read More »
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Breaking The Chain
Patients with a new cardiac pacemaker have an advantage over patients who have received standard pacemakers: they can undergo MRI scans as a part of their care without the risk of adverse events. Read More »
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Breeding Bacteria On Factory Farms
The story of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in farm animals is not a simple one. But here’s the pitch version: Yet another study has reinforced the idea that keeping animals in confinement and feeding them antibiotics prophylactically breeds varieties of bacteria that cause disease in humans, disease that may not readily be treated by antibiotics... Read More »
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BRISSKit: Connecting Researchers With Clinical Data
The UK government is starting to recognise the value of data to the economy and is developing policy that aims to realise that worth. One of the largest and, potentially, most useful repositories of information in the country is the NHS, housing vast quantities of patient data with myriad applications. [...] Read More »
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Brookings Finds Healthcare Jobs Soaring Over Other Industries
Jobs in the healthcare sector have grown faster than in any other industry, according to a new report from the Brookings Institution. Read More »
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Bryan Sivak: Chief Disrupter At HHS
The term disruption is perhaps a bit overused in the technology and healthcare sectors these days, but if there is one place where it’s needed most, that just might be the federal government. Read More »
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Budget Plan Gives VA Big Funding Boost For Veterans Care
The Veterans Affairs Department does not appear to be feeling the pinch of fiscal austerity in President Obama’s 2014 budget proposal: The White House has proposed a 10.2 percent boost in funding for VA next year, totaling $66.5 billion in discretionary spending. Read More »
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Business and Medical Leaders Develop Crowdsourced Platform to Solve Complex Immunological Problems
Here at Medgadget, we have previously covered efforts to crowdsource ideas for developing medical technology and innovation. For example, we have seen programs that crowdsource retinal connectome mapping and protein folding. Read More »
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C-suite Views RCM As Matter Of Survival
New Black Book report shows healthcare execs see RCM as a way to stay solvent Read More »
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CACI Appoints Dr. Anthony Hess As Senior Vice President, Healthcare Solutions Group
Accomplished Industry Leader Highlights Focus on Growth in Healthcare Market Area Read More »
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CACI Awarded $14 Million Contract to Enhance Interoperability for Department of Veterans Affairs Benefits Records Systems
CACI International Inc (NYSE:CACI) announced today that it has received a task order award to provide core development support on the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER) program. Read More »
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CACI Chief Medical Information Officer Dr. Keith Salzman Receives Healthcare IT Physician Leadership Award
CACI International Inc (NYSE:CACI) announced today that its Chief Medical Information Officer, Dr. Keith Salzman, has received the 2013 Physician IT Leadership Award from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), a global network of health IT professionals. [...] Read More »
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California HIE Taps iBlueButton
Humetrix, a provider of consumer-centric mobile healthcare applications, and the developer of the iBlueButton app, announced Tuesday that the State of California Office of Health Information Integrity (OHII) has chosen iBlueButton to participate in its upcoming Health Information Exchange (HIE) pilot. Read More »
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