The Right Way to Handle Data Theft
Comparisons tend to be invidious, but it's worth looking at how the Veterans Affairs Department manages the breach, loss or theft of data versus the Military Health System. Read More »
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Military EHR Looks to Bridge the Civilian Gap
The Virtual Lifetime Electronic Health Record, or V-LER, is the cornerstone of health information sharing between the Defense Department and the VA. Two recent pilot projects show that interoperable records and data exchange are tantalizingly close. Read More »
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A Virtual Response to a Real Disaster in Nepal
"An 8 magnitude has just hit Kathmandu. There is utter chaos, fires are raging and there is a communications blackout," announced Suresh Ojha into the phone on a real-time simulated conference call on 25 September, exactly a week after an earthquake devastated eastern Nepal. Read More »
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EU Puts Millions into Embedded System Modelling
The EU is funding the development of methods and tools for formal modelling, verification and validation "which will make it possible to produce precise models for embedded systems and help eliminate design errors before projects go into the manufacturing stage", said the University of Southampton. Read More »
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Why Aren’t You Using the VistA EMR?
For years, health IT pundits have marveled at the VA’s open source EMR, VistA, which has long had the reputation of being one of the best platforms available anywhere...Despite [this], hospitals have been slow to adopt the VA’s wonder child. Why? Read More »
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HealthIT.Gov Videos for Patients & Families
HealthIT.Gov now has a multi-media page contaioning a range of video presentations by health care providers and managers about their experiences in implementing and using health IT systems like Electronic Health Records (EHR) and how it relates to patients and their families. See videos at HealthIT.Gov
Genomic Information, EHR Systems, & Open Source
Next generation electronic medical record (EMR) will contain genomic information modules and provide predictive care capabilities supporting the continued movement towards more personalized medicine. Much of the work on genomic information systems being done involves extensive collaboration between public and private sector organizations with a heavy emphasis on standards and 'open source' solutions.
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Merge Healthcare Releasing a Free Medical Imaging Cloud-based Service
Merge Healthcare, a leading provider of enterprise imaging and interoperability solutions, has developed and will shortly be launching Merge Honeycomb, a revolutionary new cloud-based service that will enable users to upload, download, view, and share medical images – at no cost. Merge Honeycomb will be the nation’s largest medical imaging sharing network and is open to anyone. Merge Honeycomb will officially be launched at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Conference in Chicago in November, 2011. See Merge Healthcare.
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Nutrition & Diet: Free Open Source and/or Low Cost Solutions
Many common health problems can be prevented or alleviated with a healthy diet and good nutrition. For help, consider using some of the growing number of high quality, free open source and/or low cost Diet & Nutrition software products now readily available to you. Read More »
VA Prepared for New Employee Mobile Devices on Oct. 1
The Veterans Affairs Department is on track to begin allowing additional types of mobile devices on its networks starting Oct. 1, but will start slowly with only about 1,000 users, according to Roger Baker, CIO and assistant secretary for information and technology.
Currently, the VA has about 17,000 Blackberry users. Read More »
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