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The VA Wants To Use Open Source To Make Electronic Health Records Better
For years now the health care industry has been in search of a uniform, unified, interchangeable health record format that would allow different systems and different providers to share and use information seamlessly.... Now the Veterans Administration is enlisting the help of open source to make their VistA format that universal format.
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New Healthcare Android App Breaks Down Medical Records in Common Format for Doctors
Palomar Pomerado Health has created a mobile application that enables doctors to look at medical records from a number of medical record providers via Android-based devices and email or video chat with other doctors about those records.
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Global Alliance Prescribes Wi-Fi for Health and Fitness
The Wi-Fi Alliance - the global organisation set up to promote the technology - has teamed up with Continua Health Alliance - a global organisation of healthcare and healthcare technology companies - to facilitate and promote the adoption of Wi-Fi networking technology in connected health applications.
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Tablets in Healthcare: Apple Vs. Droid
Perhaps Apple’s biggest legitimate competitor in tablets is Google’s Android OS. There are reasons that Apple should be worried. Google and Apple are both very large companies with $23 billion and $36 billion in sales respectively but that is where the similarities seem to end.
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HIMSS: IHE implementation challenging, but doable and valuable
Two experts who shared their experiences on implementing Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) profiles for health information exchanges (HIEs) confirmed the utility and value of IHE profiles during the “Experiences Implementing IHE Profiles in the Real World” educational session.
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Wi-Fi Alliance and Continua Health Alliance to Promote Wi-Fi Networking
Wi-Fi Alliance, a global non-profit industry association of hundreds of leading companies devoted to the proliferation of Wi-Fi technology across devices and market segments, has recently announced finalizing an agreement with Continua Health Alliance to promote Wi-Fi networking.
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Government tells major IT suppliers - we want more open source software
Open source software could be a key element to the government's new IT strategy due in Spring - and Whitehall has told its major suppliers to offer more open source options, says Bill McCluggage, deputy government CIO.
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HIMSS: Direct/CONNECT Update
In the last year, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has gone from 38 employees to 138 due to the HITECH Act, said Doug Fridsma, MD, PhD, director at the Office of Interoperability & Standards at the ONC
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Andago to Present its mHealth Solutions at HIMSS 2011
Andago will show the latest releases of its end-to-end Mobile Health Solution at HIMSS11, Healthcare Information and Management System Society Conference and Exposition at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida, USA (February 20–24) and at OHT Board Meeting, Open Health Tools (February 24-25).
S&I's Doug Fridsma on NwHIN Enabling the Next Amazon, eBay or Facebook
Consider NwHIN to be the building blocks for what may become the World Wide Web of healthcare information – on top of which may one day be the next Amazon, eBay or Facebook, only with a health slant. Read More »
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popHealth Tools Development Challenge: Winners Announced
At HIMSS today, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and Health 2.0 announced the three winners of the popHealth Tool Development Challenge: Team popEYE, Team Agent and Team greatOne. Congratulations to the winners! Read More »
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Axial Exchange and Alcatel-Lucent to Showcase Integrated Voice and Data Solution for Real-Time Collaboration Among Disparate Physicians
Axial Exchange and Alcatel-Lucent have teamed up to create a solution that allows care teams within hospitals to collaborate with outside physicians. The Axial Communication Platform enables hospital-based care providers to share information with outside providers.
'Prospero’, New International Register of Systematic Reviews
Last week at the 2011 Cochrane Canada conference, there was an announcement of a new international registry of systematic review protocols called PROSPERO. The register is open to all researchers who are conducting systematic reviews, and--most importantly--is free.
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Veterans Get Mobile Access to Their eHealth Records
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) today announced a new online feature that allows active duty and retired service members to access their electronic health records (EHRs) with the click of a mouse.
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VA, DoD To Finalize Joint EHR Standard
The Departments of Veterans Affairs and Defense are close to an agreement on a common standard for electronic health records (EHRs), a move that should drastically improve how the agencies share patient data, the VA's chief information officer told a congressional committee last week.
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