...CollaboRhythm is a technology platform that enables a new paradigm of healthcare delivery; one where patients are empowered to become active participants and where doctors and other health professionals are transformed into real-time coaches. We believe that this radical shift in thinking is necessary to dramatically reduce healthcare costs, increase quality, and improve health outcomes. Read More »

A doctor in Rhode Island, per his daily routine, has just updated and closed a patient's chart in the practice's electronic health record. As he punches up the next record or heads to the exam room, a routine of another sort is underway between the EHR and the state's health information exchange database. Read More »

In June 2011, CareSpark's board of directors voted unanimously to terminate the nonprofit regional health information organization (RHIO), which serves 17 counties in eastern Tennessee and southwestern Virginia. Read More »

According to recent international comparisons, the US is ranked 35th in math education and 29th in science education worldwide. This downward trend is not a new revelation. Read More »

The Open Source Food panel raised a diverse and complicated array of ideas about what exactly open source is and how it can be applied to food from software, hardware, social, and research perspectives. Read More »

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As health reform continues to take shape, industry experts contemplate how much involvement nurses should have in the process. Some say that because nurses play a broader role in patient care, they should play a greater role in reform decisions. Read More »

In my internship a common complaint was that our patients seem disengaged from their own care. They never seemed to remember their medication lists, their own medical history, or other basic items of the medical history. Read More »

Evidence has emerged that federal agencies are not necessarily as keen to consolidate physical datacenters into computing clouds as the Cloud-First Policy would need to succeed. Read More »

One of the common myths about open source software is that it is developed by communities of individuals. Read More »