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Executive Spotlight: Don Mestas, Harris VP On Healthcare Offerings, M&A Activity And Ongoing VA Work
Don Mestas serves as vice president of government healthcare solutions at Harris Corp., where he manages the company’s business with the departments of Veterans Affairs, Defense, Health and Human Services and other government customers. Read More »
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Exorbitant Prices Are Just One Reason to Loathe the Company That Makes the EpiPen
It’s not hard for pharma companies to appear villainous, but Mylan, the maker of the EpiPen, may be in a class by itself. Mylan has drawn the ire of patients, consumer groups and now Congress for raising the price of the device 400% since it acquired EpiPen in 2007. The implement, which delivers life-saving medicine for severe allergy sufferers, can now cost more than $300 per pen. It’s only sold in pairs and must be purchased every year because the drug, epinephrine, loses potency over time. Sales of EpiPen are now in excess of $1 billion annually...
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Exosomes And Microvesicles Journal, a new Open Access publication
InTech Open Access publisher is pleased to announce the collaboration with the American Society for Exosomes and Microvesicles (ASEMV) to publish the scientific journal Exosomes and Microvesicles, a peer-reviewed publication designed to bring together exosomes principles, scientific research and clinical applications. Read More »
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Expand EHR Knowledge For Stage 2 Meaningful Use Success: Q&A
Nancy Fennell, Director of the Regional Extension Center of New Hampshire (RECNH), has overseen New Hampshire’s runaway EHR adoption success, recently announcing that 65% of primary care providers and 85% of critical access hospitals (CAHs) have achieved meaningful use. [...] Fennell sat down with EHRintelligence to discuss the challenges of Stage 2 and how providers can work with industry partners to get the most out of their investments. Read More »
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Expanding iHRIS to Support the Social Services Workforce
When we think of healthcare workers, we tend to think of doctors, nurses, midwives, and the like. We originally developed the iHRIS Suite to track and manage these traditional, well-defined cadres. Read More »
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Expect IT Consolidation, Cost Cutting During Obama’s Second Term
Expanding the Office of Management and Budget’s PortfolioStat process for reviewing agencies’ informational technology spending will be one focus of the second Obama term, Deputy Federal Chief Information Officer Lisa Schlosser said Wednesday. Read More »
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Expensive EHR Implementations Threaten Hospital Credit Ratings
Huge capital outlays for electronic health record (EHR) implementations are threatening the credit ratings of some large medical systems by tying up large amounts of cash and temporarily reducing profits, Becker's Hospital Review reported. Read More »
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Expensive Healthcare Doesn’t Help Americans Live Longer
Among developed countries, a new report says, the U.S. ranks very low in translating health dollars into longer lives—particularly for women Read More »
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Expensive Journal Subscriptions Must Pave Way Towards Open Access Information
In order to do some research for this article, I went to JSTOR and searched, ‘‘the high cost of scholarly journals.” On the side of the page was written, “Your access to JSTOR provided by Bowdoin College.” Read More »
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Expensive Prescription Drugs: A Few Resources For Those In Need
We’ve all heard about astonishingly expensive drugs, and about drug company resources for helping people afford them. Read More »
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Experian Sold Consumer Data To Identity Theft Organization
If consumers and financial institutions weren't disillusioned enough with the shoddy performance of traditional credit bureaus, they will be now that a KrebsOnSecurity investigation discovered Experian sold consumer data to an identity theft organization. Read More »
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Experience Design In Health Care: A New Imperative
Patient engagement is a potent therapeutic, but how is engagement related to a core tenet of healthcare’s Triple Aim: Patient experience? For that, let’s take a quick look at user experience (UX) design in software. Read More »
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Experimental Network Connects Zambia’s Most Remote
Range Networks, a leading U.S.provider of commercial open-source cellular systems, announced this week that it had successfully deployed an experimental cellular network in Southern Zambia. Read More »
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Experts Believe Open Source is More Secure for Health Sector
Health care IT systems should look to open source software (OSS) as an alternative that is more secure, as well as offering a cheaper option. With local hospitals in UK soon to resemble Crimean-war era triage tents due to lack of funding it seems that the once impressive NHS could certainly now do with a few extra bob. Billions are spent on health care IT, though open source is looked at as a less viable option for a number of unfounded reasons.
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Experts Caution About Stage 2 Meaningful Use Penalties
The difficulty between what it takes to achieve Stage 1 and Stage 2 is so great, it could easily catch some providers off guard, says Laura Kreofsky, principal advisor at Naperville, Ill.-based Impact Advisors, who specializes in meaningful use. Read More »
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