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Ignoring Social Media Trends May Be Harmful For Hospitals
A new report from Hewlett-Packard Social Media Solutions claims hospitals put both their patients and reputations at risk by ignoring social media. Read More »
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iHRIS Retain 1.2 Released
iHRIS Retain is the newest addition to the iHRIS platform of tools and technologies for supporting the health workforce. This tool helps managers of health workers cost retention strategies at the district, regional, or national level. Read More »
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iHRIS Retain, A Tool For Costing Plans To Keep Health Workers In Rural Areas
People living in rural and remote areas of the world need more skilled health workers to care for their communities. However, attracting and retaining health workers to serve these areas is a challenge. Although nearly half of the world’s population lives in rural areas, they are served by less than 38% of the world’s nurses, and less than a quarter of the world’s doctors. Read More »
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iHRIS Version 4.1 & Website Expands Software Options for Global Health Workforce
This week, IntraHealth International announced the release of iHRIS 4.1, the first major release of the groundbreaking open source software in two years. The release includes new features of iHRIS Manage and iHRIS Qualify—the core products of the open source suite of software—that improve data security, better support decentralized health systems, and give health workers access to their own data. Read More »
Image Management System Aids Radiologist/Cardiologist Workflow.
Heart IT, the global leader that pioneered the first FDA approved zero-footprint medical imaging workstation, announced today the release of the OsiriX interface for the WebPAX(®) image management system. Read More »
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Imaging And Radiology Paves The Way For Industry Adoption Of Open Source
Open source software in healthcare has been instrumental for sharing common tools and increasing adoption of emerging medical information technology (IT) standards. By leading the effort to digitize health data, imaging informatics has set the precedent for the adoption of the technology industry's best practices and subsequently open source software. Read More »
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Imaging To Take Greater Role In Patient Diagnostics, Health Reform
Imaging is on the cusp of taking a greater role in health IT and development of new payment and care delivery models with new applications and its use as a diagnostic tool earlier in the patient care process. Read More »
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Immigrants Help Medicare Stay Solvent
Immigrants in the United States both legally and illegally are helping sustain Medicare, contributing about $14 billion more a year to the federal health program for the elderly than they use in medical services, a new study indicates. Read More »
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Improved Routine Access To Health Data Ensures Disaster Preparedness
State health information exchanges can best prepare for emergencies by ensuring that health information is readily accessible during routine care, concludes a report (.pdf) from the Southeast Regional HIT-HIE Collaboration published in July. But the report finds day-to-day health information sharing is a challenge, as individual state's efforts and HIE implementation timelines vary considerably. Read More »
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Improving Access To Information: Day 2 Of The Global Maternal Health Conference 2013
I had the pleasure today of officially launching the Year 1 Open Access Collection on Maternal Health that PLOS has developed with the Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF), a leading organization coordinating efforts to improve the evidence, programmes, and advocacy of maternal health. Read More »
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Improving Health Workforce Leadership And Management
To improve health services, Uganda is focusing on the people that provide quality care. In our new video, Ugandan health workers, managers, and leaders show how the country’s efforts are paying off—and how service delivery has improved. The following story highlights one aspect of this work. Read More »
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Improving Patient Safety Is Key Priority For Digital Healthcare
One of the main problems with the UK's healthcare providers is the fragmented nature by which they share information. This often leaves patients feeling they have received impersonal care. Read More »
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Improving Quality Patient Outcomes A Money Loser For Hospitals
Surgical patients who have complications generate better margins for hospitals, a new study in the Journal of American Medical Association has found. Cue the outrage from the consumer media about “profit-hungry hospitals.” Read More »
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In Dire Health
Despite the passage of the Affordable Care Act, the U.S. medical system is near collapse. What will save it is a single-payer system and physicians in group practice.
Most people assume that insurance is an essential part of the health-care system. Some think it should be provided through public programs like Medicare, while others prefer to see it purchased from private insurance companies, but Read More »
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In Disasters Such as Hurricanes, HIE Is 'As Critical as Having Roads, as Having Fire Hydrants'
The Statewide Health Information Network of New York (SHIN-NY) sees itself as a "public utility" as much as an HIE. In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, as patients bounce between hospitals (and as other public utilities, such as electricity and transportation, are compromised), it has enabled critical continuity of care. The images of dozens of red-flashing ambulances, evacuating as many as 200 patients – some of them in critical condition, some of them infants – from NYU Langone Medical Center, whose backup generator had failed, to hospitals such as Sloan-Kettering and NewYork-Presbyterian, will be some of the most enduring images from the super storm. The harrowing process was made much smoother by the fact that those patients' electronic health records were secure and readily accessible at the hospitals to which they were thanks to New York's statewide HIE... Read More »
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