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Federal Health Officials Call For New Quality Measurement Framework
Federal health officials are calling for a new framework in quality measurement, as the U.S. healthcare system prepares for what is hoped to be a new era of accountability. Read More »
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Feds Postpone Bid To Govern Health IT Network
Bowing to widespread industry objections to its proposals for governing the Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN), the Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT (ONC) has tabled the project, at least for now. Read More »
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Feds Release Latest Version Of Connect
The federal government has released its latest version of the open source Connect software platform for advanced health information exchange. Read More »
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Feds To Alaskans: No Road For Humans, Lots Of Land For Animals
In one of Alaska's most remote outposts, where a thousand hardy souls make their homes, the Obama administration has put the fate of birds and bears above the lives of people, blocking construction of an 11-mile gravel trail connecting a tiny fishing hamlet to a life-saving airport. Read More »
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Feds Tout Blue Button, Push Patient Engagement
Pushing the Blue Button was what a parade of government and private-sector health information technology leaders did—often and with gusto—during a series of panel discussions in Washington to kick off Health IT Week. Read More »
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Fee Data May Deter Docs From Ordering Labs
Displaying the cost of a test to providers at the time of ordering led to a modest decrease in the number of orders for laboratory studies placed over a 6-month period, investigators reported. Read More »
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Feeding A Disease With Fake Drugs
Thanks to billions of dollars spent on diagnosis and treatment [for tuberculosis] over the past decade, deaths and infections are slowly declining. Yet a disturbing phenomenon has emerged that could not only reverse any gains we’ve made, but also encourage the spread of a newly resistant form of the disease. Read More »
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Female Vets Feeling Better About VA Care
At the opening of a new women’s clinic in the Durham VA Medical Center in 1995, hospital officials planted a Leyland cypress sapling not 5 feet tall. It marked both the outside door to the clinic, where female veterans could enter the building without threading through waiting areas full of men, and, symbolically, a new era in the way the government planned to care for women who had served in its armed forces.
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Fewer Certified EHRs For Stage 2 May Pose Problems For Hospitals, Doc Practices
There is growing concern that far fewer software developers have certified electronic health-record systems for use by healthcare providers under federal Stage 2 meaningful-use requirements than under Stage 1. Read More »
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Fierce Innovation Awards: Healthcare Edition Program Announces Finalists Humetrix iBlueButton App Recognized
Humetrix, a leading provider of consumer healthcare apps, announced today that its iBlueButton app has been selected as a finalist in this year’s Fierce Innovation Awards: Healthcare Edition. Humetrix’s iBlueButton app was recognized as a finalist in the EHR category of the awards program from the publisher of FierceHealthIT, FierceHealthcare, and FierceMobileHealthcare. Read More »
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Fierce Q&A: Prepare Your Practice To Handle A Public Health Crisis
As of Tuesday, more than 100 people across the United States have been infected with--and 12 have died from--a fungal form of meningitis contracted from contaminated steroid injections used to treat pain. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as many as 13,000 people may have received contaminated medicine, and the number of cases is expected to rise. Read More »
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Fifth Time A Charm For Telehealth Bill?
A telemedicine bill aimed at expanding remote patient monitoring technology in rural and underserved communities was re-introduced in the Senate this week, making it the fifth time the bill has been proposed since 2005. Read More »
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Fighting A War Against An Invisible Enemy, Soldiers Battle PTSD
Desperation, depression — and an overwhelming feeling of desertion — are the dangerous components that have contributed to the rising tide of suicide and mental health problems in the military. Just this week it was announced that for the sixth year in a row, suicide among members of the armed forces is on the rise... Read More »
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Finally Home, Traumatically Injured Vets Face New Lives As VA Faces Costs
Jerral Hancock wakes up every night in Lancaster, Calif., around 1 a.m. dreaming he is trapped in a burning tank. He opens his eyes, but he can't move, he can't get out of bed and he can't get a drink of water. Read More »
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Financial Woes At Maine Medical Center
In a memo to its employees last week, one of Maine’s largest health systems said it has suffered an operating loss of $13.4 million in the first half of its fiscal year. Read More »
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