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Industry innovation for veterans from Veterans Affairs
The deal is to work with private industry in the spirit of "public/private innovation" and to figure out new tech to better help vets in the field, in areas including medical tech, housing for homeless vets and tools to help veteran entrepreneurs. Those were the themes of the third phase of the VA Innovation Initiative (VAi2).
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CSC Wins Aussie Defense Health IT Job
Computer Sciences Corp won a $56 million contract yesterday to develop an electronic health record system for the Australian Department of Defence.
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CSC Announces EHealth Contract with Australian Department of Defence
In a press conference today with the Australian Department of Defence, CSC (NYSE: CSC) announced it has signed a five-year information technology (IT) contract to develop and implement an electronic health (eHealth) information system for the Australian Defence Force (ADF) known as the Joint eHealth Data and Information (JeHDI) system. Read More »
Open Source Approaching 30% Of Enterprise Software
Open source software continues to gain traction in the enterprise, with more than half the respondents in a recent survey saying they've adopted such software as part of their IT strategy, according to a new Gartner study. Read More »
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Interoperability Will Be a Big Focus at HIMSS
At least 70 vendors have invited me to meet with them at the upcoming conference (Feb. 20-24) in Orlando of the Health Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS)....
Health information exchanges and interoperability are hotter than ever, and a number of vendors will be showing how well they can exchange data at HIMSS' Interoperability Showcase on the exhibit floor. In fact, this is one of health IT guru John Halamka's top picks for the HIMSS conference.
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HHS tests exchanging personal medical data over Internet
The Health and Human Services Department’s open-source Direct Project development program for secure health data exchange over the Internet has started operating in two states, Minnesota and Rhode Island, and will launch demonstration projects in six more states, officials have announced. Read More »
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Global Certification Forum & Continua Health Alliance Cooperate To Certify Personal Connected Health Solutions
Global Certification Forum (GCF) and Continua Health Alliance are co-operating to develop an effective certification process for wirelessly-connected personal health devices. In the mobile and many other industries, standards-based certification schemes have been proven to promote market development and growth. Read More »
Technology Emerges as a Tool to Recruit Clinicians
In the 2010s, what’s the latest tool for recruiting the best clinicians to your hospital? Is it the professional pride of being associated with an organization that provides the best care in the region? Is it showing respect for the growing number of clinicians who seek to work hard but protect their personal lives from excessive intrusions in the form of frequent on-call duty or mandatory overtime? Read More »
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Yes, I Still Write Code
Let me start by admitting to an open secret: I still write code. If you are like many people whom I share this secret with, you're probably thinking that's a crazy thing to do. Well I'm not going to argue the point, after all the business folks talk at length about the role of a CEO and management, and believe me it does not include writing software. Read More »
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Afrilabs Provide a Model for African Innovation, Collaboration
In 2008 a couple of tech guys sitting around a table after Barcamp Nairobi first discussed the idea that eventually would become the heart of Kenyan innovation, iHub. In January 2010 there was another group, this time of people trying to setup their own labs, hubs and co-working environments in other countries across the continent. Read More »
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No Smooth Sailing With EHRs
While I am an ardent health information technology advocate, as an independent practitioner my personal experience mirrors the Stanford findings … so far. Read More »
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Medicare: Free Electronic Medical Records Solutions
Instigated by the incredibly slow adoption of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) by doctors across the nation, Medicare is announcing it will begin offering doctors free electronic medical record software solutions.
Both upfront and ongoing costs have been critical factors in the lagging EMR adoption rate. Medicare hopes that by providing doctors with a free or very low-cost system, doctors will readily adopt EMR putting healthcare providers in America on a common system, thereby, providing Medicare and the general public with obvious, health, reporting and billing benefits. Read More »
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Andago & Mobile Web Applications
As part of our work on the MobiWebApp project, we are to build a standardization roadmap, taking into account the needs from the market, and more specifically from SMEs.
While we have several ongoing actions toward that goal, we are also proposing to conduct simple interviews from SMEs that are using or are considering to use Web technologies to develop and deploy their mobile applications.
We are starting this series with an interview of Manrique Lopez de la Fuente who is a passionate advocate of Web technologies in the company he works for, Andago.
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A Fair, Efficient Healthcare System is Within Our Reach
IT SEEMS likely the next government will be made up of Fine Gael and Labour. Both propose extensive changes to the health service and both propose to introduce universal health insurance.
Last weekend, Fine Gael published a detailed policy proposing to introduce a social health insurance scheme, modelled roughly on the system in the Netherlands. Labour has yet to publish its detailed policies. Read More »
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Eight Healthcare Companies Vie for ABBY Awards, as Ken Kizer, MD, is Honored for Innovative Leadership
Eight innovative companies that are significantly improving the way healthcare is delivered will be honored at the Eighth Annual Innovations in HealthcareSM Awards and Event, presented by the Adaptive Business Leaders (ABL) Organization, on June 7, 2006 in Long Beach, California. Four of these honorees will also be chosen to receive ABBY Awards.
At the event, ABL will also present its 2006 “Leadership in Innovation” Award to Ken Kizer, MD, a pioneering advocate of information technology (IT) as an enabler for improving healthcare safety and quality. As Under Secretary for Health in the Veteran’s Administration (VA), from 1994 to 1999, Ken is widely credited with being the chief architect and engineer of the VA's remarkable transformation, including VistA, a system-wide implementation of an electronic health record, bar code medication administration, and other IT innovations, years before the healthcare industry embraced the importance of IT. Today, Ken is Chairman and CEO of Medsphere, a leading commercial provider of open source technology for the healthcare industry, which is delivering commercially supported software based on VistA.