Leveraging the Organizational Network: Series on Technology Trends for the Life Sciences Industry
Technology and the internet offer a unique opportunity for some of the world’s top pharmaceutical companies to look beyond their walls or internal networks for solutions to their business challenges.
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Health Reform Likely to Expand Role of Nurses; Oregon, Washington Ahead of Most States
Oregon and Washington are among 16 states with liberal practice laws to allow licensed nurse practitioners to care for patients, order diagnostic tests and prescribe pharmaceuticals without a physician's oversight.
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DoD-VA Joint Electronic Health Record to be Housed in DISA Cloud
The Defense and Veterans Affairs departments' integrated electronic health record--or iEHR, as it's being called--will be housed in a cloud computing environment hosted by the Defense Information Systems Agency, said VA Chief Information Officer Roger Baker. Read More »
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DoD, VA Making Steps Toward Joint EHRs--For Now
The Defense and Veterans Affairs departments appear to be moving toward finally creating an integrated electronic health record--or iEHR--that will house a cloud computing environment hosted by the Defense Information Systems Agency, the VA's Chief Information Officer Roger Baker, announced Wednesday at a Washington, D.C. meeting.
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Can VA Spend $500M on New Contracts in Five Months? '
"Clock is ticking" on rolling out large volume of contracts for Secretary Initiatives program. Within the next five months the Veterans Affairs Department intends to award IT contracts collectively worth $500 million to help reach the next milestones for Secretary Eric Shinseki’s 16 major initiatives, officials said today. Read More »
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Open Source Projects of Relevance to caBIG and CBIIT
In connection with this working group Ken had raised the issue of our own use of/contribution to open source projects. Here is an ad hoc list of a few such projects. Read More »
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One Doctor Aims For Better Health Care In Iraq
...[Dr. Adel] Hanson came up with a solution that could fight corruption at all levels in the medical system. It's a computerized medical records system called WorldVista. It was developed for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and has now spread all over the world. Hanson wants to bring it to Iraq, and so far he has the agreement of the minister of defense, the minister of health and the Kurdish minister of health.
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Interoperability Still Key to Effective Electronic Medical Records
Lora Bentley spoke with Rick Kneipper, co-founder and chief strategy officer forAnthelio Healthcare, about the state of electronic medical records adoption.
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Health IT Alters Doctor-Patient Interactions
Physicians who use health IT to streamline administrative functions could spend more time with patients, a new survey suggests.
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CMS Eases 'Burdensome' IT Rules
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the agency known as CMS, is streamlining the telemedicine physician-credentialing process to end "burdensome" regulatory requirements that might have hampered innovation in health-care delivery.
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