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Veterans Journal: Retirees Spend 27% Less On Health Under TRICARE
According to the Congressional Budget Office, military retirees spend 27 percent less for health care under TRICARE, the Defense Department’s managed-care provider, than they did when the program began in 1996. Read More »
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Burlington hospital expansion includes buying a $160 million EHR System
Lahey Health plans to spend over $170 million on its hospital facilities, with a new $162 million electronic medical records system as the centerpiece. Read More »
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James Risen's Risk Of Prison Means Journalism Is Being Criminalised
That a New York Times national security reporter may be jailed for refusing to name a source is a total affront to press freedom Read More »
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Africa: Open-Source Opens Up Architecture For The Poor
Architects and community leaders are combining forces to lead the way in creating many types of innovative housing in developing nations as part of an open-source collaboration. Read More »
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Health Care IT Chief's Departure Leaves Gap In EHR Leadership
Dr. Farzad Mostashari, the Obama administration's national coordinator for health IT, announced his resignation on Aug. 6. Read More »
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DoD, VA Establish Two Multi-Institutional Consortia To Research PTSD And TBI
In response to President Obama’s Executive Order, the [DoD and VA] highlighted today the establishment of two joint research consortia, at a combined investment of $107 million to research the diagnosis and treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) over a five-year period. Read More »
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Doctor Data Made To Order
Recently, Health and Human Services (HHS) Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a request for public comment on how they should handle the reversal of an injunction that prevented them from revealing specific information about how doctors perform. Read More »
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OSEHRA 2013: Open Source EHR Agent to Hold Second Developers Summit
Next month, technical and business executives working to improve users’ success with open source EHRs will meet in Bethesda, Md., at the Second Annual Open Source EHR Summit & Workshop put on by the Open Source Electronic Health Records Agent (OSEHRA), a nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating innovation in electronic health record software. The OSEHRA community has grown to more than 2,300 members...
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Antibiotic Use In Chickens: Responsible For Hundreds Of Human Deaths?
In the long back and forth between science and agriculture over the source of antibiotic resistance in humans — Due to antibiotic overuse on farms, or in human medicine? — one question has been stubbornly hard to answer. If antibiotic-resistant bacteria do arise on farms, do they leave the farm and circulate in the wider world? And if they do, how much damage do they do? Read More »
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Jeff Hawkins: Where Open Source And Machine Learning Meet Big Data
The Palm pioneer has turned to neuroscience and big data to create a path to truly intelligent machines -- a path open to the community's contributions Read More »
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Why JavaScript Will Become The Dominant Programming Language Of The Enterprise
A simple learning curve and flexible skill set have JavaScript on the verge of taking over the enterprise. Read More »
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Trusting Healthcare Data
Healthcare is generating data at an unprecedented rate. EHR software is becoming a large repository of healthcare data. [...] We’re surrounded by healthcare data. The question is: How do we make sure they trust the data? Read More »
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Photos: This Solar Powered Wheelchair Gives The Disabled A Chance To Swim In The Ocean
A solar-powered chair is allowing the wheelchair-bound a chance to swim, unaided, in the Greek sea. But without additional government assistance to promote the device’s upkeep and accessibility, it has suffered from vandalism and proven difficult for wheelchair-goers to get to. Read More »
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FDA Approves Home Health Platform
Federal regulators have approved Verizon's first foray into the home monitoring space. Read More »
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OMICS Publishing Group Ties Up With 100 Eminent Societies To Make Healthcare Information Open Access
OMICS Publishing Group has signed agreement with 100 prestigious organizations of scientific, academic and research excellence across the globe with a view to collaborate and make healthcare information Open Access. Read More »
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