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6 Reasons To Plan Architecture For Interoperability
Nearly $26 billion spent, and the U.S. healthcare industry is still asking why information doesn’t move more easily between electronic health records. That’s a loaded question, of course, and suggesting a ten-year timeframe or arguing that there is progress if you look hard enough just doesn’t answer it...
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61% Of CFOs At Struggling Hospitals Expect To Be Fired In The Next 2 Years
Sixty-one percent of CFOs that self-identified their hospitals as struggling foresee being fired by 2016 because their revenue cycle management, staff and solutions were stuck in fee-for-service mode too long, according to recent Black Book survey results. Read More »
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7 Google Ventures Poised To Revolutionize Healthcare
Forget the “sky’s the limit.” Google is reaching for the moon when it comes to healthcare innovation...
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7 In 10 Doctors Favor Pending Legislation To Call For Greater Transparency Of Hospital Finances
Most Doctors Believe Pending Legislation for Greater Transparency of Hospital Finances, Profits and CEO Compensation Would Protect Funding for Valuable Patient Care Services-Survey Findings Released as Hospital CEOs Gather for Three Days of Golf, Fine Dining and Networking at the Luxurious Chatham Bars Inn on Cape Cod...
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7 Questions To Ask Any Open Source Project
Whether you're starting an open source project or deciding whether to participate in one, you don't want to waste time in an endeavor that imposes arbitrary restrictions that will stop you in your tracks down the line...
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7 Reasons Why Sierra Leone Is Winning Against Neglected Tropical Diseases
Despite poverty and a recent civil war, Sierra Leone has rapidly expanded treatment for NTDs. What can other countries learn? The Lancet recently published a report on gains made towards reaching the 2020 neglected tropical disease (NTD) elimination goals set by the 2012 London declaration. Despite being one of the world's poorest countries, Sierra Leone, in particular, has made incredible strides.
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7 Signs You May Have A Vitamin D Deficiency
...In fact, about 80 to 90 percent of our vitamin D comes from sun exposure, says Dr. Michael F. Holick, M.D., Ph.D., a professor of medicine, physiology and biophysics at the Boston University Medical Center who has studied and published on vitamin D for decades. "The problem is [many of us] assume if you have a healthy diet that you're getting enough of every nutrient," he says...
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70% Of Providers Don’t Think Accountable Care Is Worth It
Despite widespread participation in value-based payment arrangements, few providers think that accountable care reimbursement structures offer enough reward for the risk. Half of providers believe that value-based reimbursement will eventually foster population health, reduce costs, and improve the patient experience, says a new report from Availity, but 80% have found a need for more staff, more time, and more investments in order to make it work...
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8 Companies That Want A Piece Of The DoD's $11 Billion EHR Contract
Interest is starting to mount for the Department of Defense (DoD) contract to modernize the department's health system for more than 9.7 million military beneficiaries. With an $11 billion price tag, it is no wonder that the contract is attracting some big-name solution providers and vendors...
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8 Factors To Consider Before Taking The Open-Source Software Leap in Healthcare
Affordable healthcare is a major concern today, especially for companies developing solutions to enter emerging markets. Global companies are finding it exceedingly difficult to compete in comparatively less-regulated markets, with locally developed products.
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81% Of Healthcare Organizations Have Been Compromised By Cyber-Attacks In Past 2 Years: KPMG Survey
Eighty-one percent of health care executives say that their organizations have been compromised by at least one malware, botnet, or other cyber-attack during the past two years, and only half feel that they are adequately prepared in preventing attacks, according to the 2015 KPMG Healthcare Cybersecurity Survey.
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84% Of Struggling Hospitals Put Population Health On Hold
Population health management is on the back burner for the majority of hospitals attempting to retool their revenue cycle infrastructure...
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85% Of Measles Outbreak Victims Already Received Vaccinations
The mainstream media is giddily engaging in a mass political orgy over measles after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that the disease is allegedly spreading in large part due to foreign travelers and the unvaccinated...
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86 Potential Anthrax Exposures Identified As Count Continues To Go Up
Eleven more federal employees in the United States have come forward as people who were potentially exposed to an accidental anthrax outbreak after mishandling live samples in a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) lab...
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8th Annual National Health IT Week Coming Up Soon
The 8th Annual National Health IT Week is being held September 16-20, 2013. Read More »
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