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IT Pros Call Out Healthcare.gov For Lack Of Cloud Computing Prowess
IT industry experts said the launch of Healthcare.gov this month was hobbled by a byzantine, "old-school" infrastructure. Could cloud computing have solved the site's performance problems? Read More »
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IT Workarounds Complicate DOD and VA Health Center Effort
The Veterans Affairs and Defense department's efforts to integrate healthcare facilities has hit a snag. The two medical centers involved in the first full-scale attempt, involving the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center in North Chicago has had a hard time blending its IT, according to a Government Accountability Office report. Read More »
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Italian Man Makes Worldwide Plea For Best Brain Cancer Treatment
Salvatore Iaconesi is looking for a cure for his brain cancer and he’s asking the world to help. Read More »
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Italy's South Tyrol Starts Three-Year LibreOffice Migration
The government of Italy's South Tyrol province this morning announced a plan to implement LibreOffice, a free and open source suite of office productivity tools, in all of its public administrations, including municipal administration and healthcare organisations, during the next three years. [...] Read More »
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It’s About Time: Open APIs Finally Burst Onto Healthcare’s Sluggish Scene
In the midst of the struggles that we face with interoperability, efforts that support open API use may well hold the keys to the HIT Kingdom...
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It’s Doctors Versus Hospitals Over Meaningful Use
The Massachusetts Medical Society may be the first to notice that Meaningful Use EHR mandates favor large providers and technology vendors. Control over the Nationwide Health Information Network sets the stage for how physicians refer, receive decision support, report quality, and interact with patients. Read More »
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It’s The System, Stupid: Reversing The Law Of Unintended Consequences
We should have seen it coming, really. It was entirely predictable, and the most recent RAND report proves it. We incentivized comprehensive IT adoption, making it easier to bill for every procedure, examination, aspirin, tongue depressor, kind word and gentle (or not) touch without first flipping the American healthcare paradigm on its head... Read More »
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It’s Time To Change American Disease-Management Into A Health-Fostering System
I’ve recently written a couple of articles about the exorbitant cost of medical care in the US, which is incompatible with the poor health outcomes of Americans at large. Americans pay the most for but reap the least amount of benefits from their health care, compared to other industrialized nations... Read More »
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IU Scientist to Lead Study on the Use of Telehealth to Assist Veterans with Mild Brain Injury
An Indiana University researcher has received a grant from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to develop a new assessment mechanism that will improve long-distance care for military veterans with mild traumatic brain injury. The system will be piloted at five hospitals serving veterans and active-duty soldiers in the South and Midwest, including the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.
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I’m Very PTSD Aware
Both the Army and the VA want us all to be aware that this is PTSD Awareness month and do something about it. Read More »
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Jack Andraka Talks Innovation, Open Access & Life As A Teen Scientist On Colbert Report
In the midst of the health insurance exchange meltdown, it was nice to see late night TV take a break from criticizing Obamacare news to give healthcare some positive attention last night. Read More »
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Jamaican Ministry Of Health Is The First To Adopt Free And Open Source Health System Nationwide
With a bright Caribbean sun and an even brighter welcoming crew, GNU Health unshipped in a new bay recently. In cooperation with the Jamaican Ministry of Health, a group from GNU Solidario visited the country and officially inaugurated the project of deploying GNU Health, a free health and hospital information system, within their public health care system. Read More »
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Joint EHR Costs Skyrocketed To $28 Billion, DoD Says
Physicians spending a paltry twenty or thirty thousand dollars on their EHR implementations can take comfort in the fact that they don’t have to foot the bill for the recently abandoned joint VA-DoD EHR system, which would have cost the taxpayers $28 billion, according to Frank Kendall, undersecretary of Defense for acquisitions. Read More »
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Judge Denies Allscripts' Motion To Dismiss Physician Class Action Lawsuit
Miami-Dade County Circuit Court Judge John W. Thornton denied Allscripts Healthcare Solutions' motion to dismiss a class action lawsuit filed against it by physicians who use its MyWay electronic health records (EHR) system. Read More »
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June 2013 Contributor Of The Month: Tobin Greensweig
Each month we select one of our many impressive volunteer OpenMRS contributors and highlight them here, to share their experiences and help others learn more about the others involved in the project. In June, community manager Michael Downey chats with Tobin Greensweig and learn more about his OpenMRS contributions and his work and studies in the Middle East. Read More »
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