News Clips
PCMH Program Yields $155 Million In Avoided Costs
A patient-centered medical home (PCMH) program operated by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan has saved an estimated $155 million in prevented claims over its first three years through June 2011. Read More »
- Login to post comments
How New OSS Communities And Code Bases Are Developed From Old Ones
Open source software developers modify significant amounts of source code for a variety of different reasons. Depending on the amount of modification, the number of developers doing the fragmentation (sometimes called a “fork” in the code), the status of these developers in the community, and the intention of the development community, the results could be just a few lines of updated code, or it could be a complete fork of the code base that takes the open source project in an entirely new direction. Read More »
- Login to post comments
Hoopla Wants To Be A Free Netflix For Library Users
Hoopla wants to make borrowing material from a library as convenient as streaming content on the web. The company, launching to the public today after several months in beta, offers patrons of participating libraries access to on-demand streaming movies and TV shows, as well as audiobooks and music that can be streamed or downloaded. Read More »
- Login to post comments
Freedom, Social Support, and Motivation
A recent TechCrunch article by Nir Eyal suggests that many apps fail to change behavior because they feel too much like work. We want to lose weight, but the obligation to log every meal seems to rob us of autonomy much like homework does. Read More »
- Login to post comments
What's The Role Of A Hospital In 10 Years?
Dr. Eric Topol was named #1 Most Influential Physician Executive in Healthcare of 2012 by Modern Healthcare so his views are closely watched. In addition to his role as a cardiologist, geneticist and author of the Creative Destruction of Medicine, he’s also the Editor-in-Chief of Medscape (WebMD’s leading physician offering). Read More »
- Login to post comments
What The US Can Learn From Africa’s Booming Economy
Seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies are in Africa. Behind that is a surge in healthy young people and an emphasis on local markets. Read More »
- Login to post comments
Partnership to tie LOINC and SNOMED
The Regenstrief Institute and the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation announced Wednesday they have signed a long-term agreement to begin cooperative work linking their global healthcare terminologies: Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes, or LOINC, and SNOMED Clinical Terms. Read More »
- Login to post comments
Panelists Suggest Delaying Stage 2 By One Year
Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) began the Senate Finance committee hearing on health IT with a Thomas Edison quote: “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Read More »
- Login to post comments
NIH Offers Data Science $96 Million
The National Institutes of Health is going to fund several new Big Data to Knowledge Centers of Excellence, from a budget of $96 million over the next four years. Read More »
- Login to post comments
Let’s Create An Alternative Copyright Agenda By And For The Users
Negotiations over the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP) have excluded public participation from the entire process, while allowing Big Content interests to see and direct the terms of this trade agreement. That is why the Fair Deal Coalition, of which EFF is a member, is launching an open platform [...]. Read More »
- Login to post comments
In A Close Vote, Congress Shamefully Defeats Amendment That Sought To Curtail NSA Surveillance
The US House of Representatives came within a few votes of passing a novel amendment that attempted to strike out funding for the highly contentious NSA calling records surveillance program... Read More »
- Login to post comments
Hybrid Clouds Fuel Choices For Health IT
Many healthcare companies are using a range of infrastructure services to meet their changing IT needs. This usually begins with storing data in an in-house data center then moving to collocation in an outsourced data center. Read More »
- Login to post comments
House Bill Would Mandate EHR Interoperability For Pentagon, VA
Late last month, lawmakers introduced a bill (HR 2590) that would require the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs to establish interoperability between their electronic health record systems within 180 days of the bill's enactment, EHR Intelligence reports (Bresnick, EHR Intelligence, 7/23). Read More »
- Login to post comments
Feds Put Heat On Web Firms For Master Encryption Keys
Whether the FBI and NSA have the legal authority to obtain the master keys that companies use for Web encryption remains an open question, but it hasn't stopped the U.S. government from trying. Read More »
Did Facebook Miss A Massive Opportunity By Building A Walled Garden Instead Of A Truly Open Platform?
When Facebook launched its platform strategy in 2007, it seemed as though the social network wanted to create a kind of social operating system anyone could use and build on — but the reality has turned out to be something very different. Read More »
- Login to post comments