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DSI To Bring Together DoD And VA And Federal Health Agencies For Their 5th DoD/VA iEHR & HIE Summit
Defense Strategies Institute has announced the 5th iteration of their highly regarded DoD/VA iEHR & HIE Summit series that benefits the 501c3 Wounded Warrior Project: taking place September 30 – October 1, 2013 at The Carnegie Library at Mt. Vernon Sq, Washington, D.C. Read More »
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DSI’s 5th DoD/VA iEHR And HIE Summit Will Reconvene September 30 –October 1, 2013 In Washington, D.C. At The Carnegie Library At Mt. Vernon Square
Defense Strategies Institute recently announced that it will reconvene their highly regarded DoD/VA iEHR & HIE Summit September 30, 2013 at The Carnegie Library at Mt. Vernon Square, Washington, D.C. [...] Read More »
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DSS, Inc. and Hospira Complete the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Innovation Initiative Adverse Drug Events Pilot Program to Further Enhance Veteran Care
DSS, Inc., the leading provider of software development and support for VistA and vxVistA, in partnership with Hospira (NYSE: HSP), the world's leading provider of injectable drugs and infusion technologies, today announced the completion of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) Innovation Initiative Adverse Drug Events (ADE) project. Read More »
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E-Prescribing Continues Rapid Growth
While there are at least two sides to every story, one of the more one-sided stories in health IT is the degree to which e-prescribing has taken hold across the healthcare sector. Read More »
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Ebola Outbreak: Sierra Leone Confirms First Deaths
Four people have died of Ebola in Sierra Leone, the first confirmed cases in the country following an outbreak in Guinea, the health ministry has said. Read More »
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Economic Slowdown Tied To Rise In Obesity In Richer Nations: OECD
The rate of obesity continues to climb across the world's most developed countries, with certain nations and groups of people such as women and the poor hit harder by the recent economic crisis, the OECD said on Tuesday. Read More »
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ECRI Institute Releases Top 10 Health Technology Hazards Report For 2013
While today’s health technology advances provide countless new ways to improve patient care, some also create new opportunities for harm. And with the evolution of healthcare information technology systems such as electronic health records (EHRs), there’s a growing level of complexity and opportunity for error.
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ED Physician Executive Slams EHRs
Electronic health records "are not effective communications tools—not effective at all," says a self-avowed technology optimist who holds a dim view of current EHR capabilities, but has hopes for better systems to come. Read More »
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Editor's Letter: 10 Years And 6 Czars Into HIT, Where Are We Now?
It has been almost a decade since President George W. Bush launched the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and since that time hordes of pilots, projects, grants, initiatives, federal advisory committees and regulations have been launched or established. Read More »
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Effective Health IT Is The Heart And Backbone Of A Dominant ACO
Frank X. Speidel, MD, Chief Medical Officer for Healthcare IT Leaders outlines why effective Health IT is critical in a successful ACO environment. Read More »
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EHealth To Obama: We Can Run HealthCare.gov
eHealth, which operates a leading online health insurance site, ehealthinsurance.com, has proposed that it temporarily take over the enrollment process for HealthCare.gov while government contractors try to fix the federally run insurance exchange, which has had multiple problems in signing people up for health insurance. Read More »
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EHI CCIO: Open Up To Open Source
The aim of the EHI CCIO Campaign is to help develop the next generation of clinical information leaders. To provide a junior doctor’s perspective, Carl Reynolds, a self-professed IT enthusiast, is writing a column for EHI on NHS IT. In his second column, he makes the case for open source. Read More »
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EHI CCIO: Sources Of My Malcontent
A key aim of the EHI CCIO Campaign is to help develop the next generation of clinical information leaders. To provide a junior doctor’s perspective, Carl Reynolds a self-professed technology enthusiast on a Future Medical Leaders Fellowship, starts a new column by discussing the sources of his malcontent with hospital IT. Read More »
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EHI CCIO: Take In A New VistA
The aim of the EHI CCIO Campaign is helping to develop the next generation of clinical information leaders. To provide a junior doctor’s perspective, Carl Reynolds, a self-professed IT enthusiast, is writing a column for EHI on NHS IT. In his third column, he discusses VistA, and why he thinks it should be adopted in the NHS. Read More »
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EHI Interview: Tony Shannon
Open source software may not be cheaper or easier, but it’s a whole lot more collaborative says one of the participants in the skunkworks at EHI Live 2011. Read More »
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