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3 HHS Oversight Programs Threatened By Sequestration
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Inspector General is reducing staff by about 400 this year, as it implements a 20 percent budget reduction from Congress’ continuing federal funding resolution, sequestration. Read More »
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3 Implications of 3M’s Open Source Health Data Dictionary
Last month, 3M Health Information Systems released their Health Data Dictionary as open source software making it free and available worldwide. The open source contract is part of an agreement with U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
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3 IT Lessons Learned From ONC's Western States HIE Consortium
A group of 13 states came together in 2011 to iron out the process, technology, policy and governance issues to enable interstate health information exchange via Direct. In collaboration with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, the Western States Consortium (WSC) on Friday published its final report from the ongoing efforts. Read More »
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3 MHealth Trends Playing On World Stage
Developments in healthcare are usually seen as a first-world matter. Talk about mobile health, or mHealth, and an image of R&D trials in some suburban hospital almost immediately come to mind. But some of the most groundbreaking advances in mHealth are taking place far away from American medical facilities... Read More »
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3 New Studies Link Bee Decline To Bayer Pesticide
It's springtime, and farmers throughout the Midwest and South are preparing to plant corn—and lots of it. The USDA projects this year's corn crop will cover 94 million acres, the most in 68 years. [...] Nearly all of that immense stand of corn will be planted with seeds treated with neonicotinoid pesticides produced by the German chemical giant Bayer. Read More »
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3 NSA Veterans Speak Out On Whistle-Blower: We Told You So
In a roundtable discussion, a trio of former National Security Agency whistle-blowers tell USA TODAY that Edward Snowden succeeded where they failed. Read More »
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3 Quality, Coordination Lessons From The Beacons
Being able to digitally submit clinical quality measures (CQMs) to Medicare is one of the big promises of health IT for physicians and providers — and it’s still coming, along with other administrative simplifications. Read More »
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3 Reasons Interoperability Prices Will Skyrocket In 2014
[...] As many probably know, New York has a vision of a statewide network. Over the years this vision has changed from one of just policy and oversight to being a free state funded and operated network. I have also heard managers of other state-designated entities for health information exchange (HIE) speak of similar ideals so this isn't just about New York but about government funded solutions and how they drive up costs. [...] Read More »
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3 Reasons Linux Doesn't Star In U.S. Schools
Come December, about 500 Indonesian schools will be running openSUSE Edu Li-f-e (Linux for Education). Read More »
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3 Reasons Most EHR Vendors Will Be Out Of Business By 2017
The crowded field of electronic health record vendors likely will be slashed to less than half by 2017, or by the implementation of Meaningful Use Stage 3--whichever comes first--according to a new Black Book Market Research report. Read More »
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3 Steps To Improving Medical Data Error Reporting
As is often the case in life, we hope to learn from our mistakes, and not repeat them. The same could be said for our healthcare system. Read More »
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3 Things mHealth Startups Need To Know Now About Regs
When entrepreneurs eyeing the mobile healthcare technology space start planning their new venture, they probably don’t have “regulatory strategy” on their task list. They forget that they’re entering one of the most heavily regulated industries, and how they manage that can have a significant impact on whether they're successful. Read More »
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3 Things To Know About Geomedicine
"Location, location, location" is a phrase that's long been associated with real estate, but in recent years it's also played a role in attempts by healthcare professionals to track disease. Now, some are putting health IT to work in adding location information – where patients have lived – into their EHRs. Read More »
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3 Ways DoD And VA Are Accelerating Patient Data Exchange Via iEHR
Whereas the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments are working toward a joint iEHR that would, come 2017, wrap all patient data into a single record accessible to clinicians in both departments, DoD Secretary Leon Panetta and VA’s Secretary Eric Shinseki pushed their staffs to accelerate data exchange and interoperability where they can now, rather than waiting. Read More »
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3 Ways Remote Care Helps Patients, Docs
Given the steady stream of new devices entering the healthcare market, it might be easy to start thinking improvements in healthcare can come from technological advances alone. But it's more complicated than that. Read More »
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