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Greenway Shows The Value Of Patient Data Beyond The EHR At HIMSS14
Company accelerates interoperability of data across platforms for care coordination, clinically driven financials and optimized population health; to demonstrate in booth 2503 Read More »
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Group Advocates For Single-Payer System Over HIX
Even as the Affordable Care Act is in its nascent stages, some states are already looking toward 2017 when they can request waivers to opt out of the healthcare exchanges. And a small, but persistent, movement has popped up toward a single payer system as an alternative to participating in the exchanges.
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Groups: Billions More Needed To Address Veterans' Health Care, Benefits Issues
The federal government will fall well short of meeting veterans’ health care and benefits needs in the coming years, several leading veterans service organizations said this week, and tens of billions of dollars in additional spending will be needed to adequately address the issue. Read More »
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GSMA: mHealth Becoming Central to Healthcare IT
Mobile health is moving from the periphery of healthcare IT to dead center, according to a new report from the global mHealth research group GSMA. Read More »
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GSMA: The Adoption of mHealth Could Reduce Total Annual European Healthcare Spend By Almost €100 Billion in 2017
The GSMA today published research that demonstrates the significant socio-economic impact that mHealth adoption will have in Europe. Findings reveal that mHealth could save almost €100 billion in healthcare costs in the EU by 2017 as well as add €93 billion in GDP... Read More »
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Guam Sub Tender USS Frank Cable Upgrades Medical Department
The submarine tender USS Frank Cable (AS 40) upgraded its medical department's patient care medical records system from a local-only paper medical record system to the Theater Medical Information Program (TMIP) system, March 11.
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Guest Post – The Open Access Button
For the past few months, like chickens on eggs we have been sitting on what we think is a game changing idea. We’ve been sitting on it because despite trying as two student activists, we just haven’t found the help we need to make it a reality. So to preface what you’re about to read – we need your help. Read More »
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Guest Post: A Physician Rebels Against Micromanagement By "'Leadership-Trained' Management Extenders"
I recently heard from a physician whom I knew well in an earlier stage of her training—I’ll call her Pauline. She completed her training at one of the top children’s hospitals in the US, and served in several capacities in academic medical centers before her most recent job with a physician-owned for-profit practice. She called me to express her frustrations and to ask if the right course for her was to quit [...]. Read More »
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Guest Post: Incompetent Management Breeds Demoralized Physicians
Danielle Ofri, a prominent internist/author at Bellevue in New York, started a recent op-ed piece, “Last week I was ready to quit medicine." [...] Read More »
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Guidance Aims To Boost Blue Button
Last year, former White House Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra said there would be a bigger Blue Button in the future. Read More »
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Hack the Programme
The geeks shall inherit the world of NHS IT. Or that was the hope of NHS Hack Day 2012. Chris Thorne spent a day with the coders, and found that even the 'old guard' and 'big wigs' were having fun. Read More »
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Hacking On Health: Open Source For The Rare Disease Community
[...] At first glance, rare diseases seem to only affect a small number of people, but in reality their aggregate impacts close to 30 million patients in the US, and about 25 million in the EU alone. This impact also extends to the millions of caregivers and families, who also feel and live with the disease, just in a different way. Read More »
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Hagel Orders Health System Action Plans, Data Review
A comprehensive review of the Military Health System released Wednesday found that the Pentagon’s 56 hospitals and 361 clinics generally provide the same quality of care found in the private sector, but the department lacks concrete data and analysis capabilities that could help it improve performance, safety and access to care, especially at facilities found to be significantly underperforming in certain categories...
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Halamka: What Keeps Me Up At Night - Fall 2013
All of these challenges can be conquered. For nearly 20 years, I've led an IT organization that has continuously delivered miracles with 1.9% of the operating budget. I am ready for the challenges ahead but wonder if mergers/acquisitions, regulatory uncertainty, MU2 certification challenges, resource constraints, and real time demands will create a set of constraints that are impossible to optimize.
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HANDI support For Apps
A Healthcare App Network for Development and Innovation has been set up by developers, clinicians, and others with an interest in developing health and care apps. Read More »
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