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5 Health Challenges The World Will Face In 2015

Julia Belluz and Steven Hoffman | Vox | December 23, 2014

What comes next for the future of the world's health?... But these are the issues reason would suggest will set the world's health agenda next year...

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7 Signs You May Have A Vitamin D Deficiency

Sarah Klein | Huffington Post | April 29, 2014

...In fact, about 80 to 90 percent of our vitamin D comes from sun exposure, says Dr. Michael F. Holick, M.D., Ph.D., a professor of medicine, physiology and biophysics at the Boston University Medical Center who has studied and published on vitamin D for decades. "The problem is [many of us] assume if you have a healthy diet that you're getting enough of every nutrient," he says...

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A Standard Model For Evaluating Return On Investment From Electronic Health Record Implementation

Jonathan Perlin | Health Affairs Blog | January 6, 2014

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) Roundtable on Value and Science-Driven Healthcare views electronic health information as a pillar for the improved effectiveness, efficiency and safety of health care.  Information is also fundamental to the concept of a “learning health system,” which IOM has described as having the capacity both to apply and generate scientific evidence in the delivery of care. [...] Read More »

Across Pharma, Few Open Arms For Trial Data Sharing

Alex Philippidis | Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN) | July 9, 2013

Industry inches toward consensus on limited sharing as EMA, GSK press for open access. Read More »

Addressing Chronic Illness Can Help Cure the U.S. Budget Deficit

Jane Sarasohn-Kahn | Health Populi | February 6, 2012

Chronic illness represents $3 of every $4 of annual health spending in the U.S. That’s about $1.5 trillion. Living Well With Chronic Illness, a report from The Institute of Medicine (IOM), issues a “call for public health action” to address chronic illness through...

Affinity RNs Call For Halt To Flawed Electronic Medical Records System Scheduled To Go Live Friday

Press Release | National Nurses United | June 18, 2013

Affinity Medical Center RNs in Massillon, Ohio are calling on hospital officials to delay the planned June 21 implementation of the Cerner electronic medical records (EMR) system, until the hospital bargains with the nurses and proceeds in a safe manner. The direct-care RNs, represented by the National Nurses Organizing Committee (NNOC) in Ohio, an affiliate of National Nurses United (NNU), say that nurses, the primary users of the complex system, have had insufficient training, which will put patients at risk. Read More »

AHRQ Eyes Quality Improvement Project

Erin McCann | Government Health IT | January 7, 2013

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has requested that the Office of Management and Budget approve funding for a new information collecting project aimed at bolstering efficiency and value in hospitals and medical offices. Read More »

Better Coordination Of Care Could Save $1.5 Billion Annually

Tracey Walker | Managed Healthcare Executive | May 1, 2014

Improving the coordination of care for elderly patients with chronic diseases reduces costs, use of health services and complications, according to a new RAND Corporation study published online in JAMA Internal Medicine.  

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Bipartisan Policy Center's Health Innovation Initiative: Health IT Industry Officials Lying To Regulators With Impunity?

InformaticsMD | Health Care Renewal | February 14, 2013

A statement that health IT has a "lower risk profile" compared to other regulated healthcare sectors such as devices or drugs, in order to seek continued and extraordinary regulatory accommodations, is remarkable.  It is either reckless regarding something that the statement's makers should know, or should have made it their business to know - or a deliberate prevarication with forethought.

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Bloated Healthcare Costs Raise EHR Concerns

Patrick Quellette | EHR Intelligence | September 25, 2012

By all accounts, money is being made in the healthcare industry off of EHR adoption. But who’s really saving cash and benefiting from these systems? Read More »

Cancer research gets a boost from EHR systems

Jennifer Bresnick | EHR Intelligence | April 1, 2013

The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) is harnessing the power of EHRs and data analytics by creating a “learning health system” called CancerLinQ, designed to aggregate information on treatments from disparate clinics and provide tailored treatments based on the outcomes of thousands of other patients.  Read More »

CMS: Databases Can Be Used For Disaster Planning To Aid Vulnerable Populations

Susan D. Hall | FierceHealthIT | April 26, 2013

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will allow health information from eight databases to be used to identify vulnerable people who might need help during an emergency. Read More »

Count Down To Health Datapalooza IV

Staff Writer | HITECH Answers | May 30, 2013

The Health Data Initiative (HDI) was launched in 2010 by the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) which has now grown into the Health Data Consortium... Read More »

Data Sharing Snafus Mar VA-DoD Hospital's Success

Marla Durben Hirsch | FierceEMR | October 17, 2012

Lack of electronic health record interoperability at a new hospital jointly run by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense is adversely affecting clinical care and costing the government millions of dollars, according to a new report published this week by the Institute of Medicine. Read More »

Deaths By Medical Mistakes Hit Records

Erin McCann | Healthcare IT News | July 18, 2014

It's a chilling reality – one often overlooked in annual mortality statistics: Preventable medical errors persist as the No. 3 killer in the U.S. – third only to heart disease and cancer – claiming the lives of some 400,000 people each year...

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