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How EHRs Can Help You To Save Time, Cost And More
Electronic Health Records is a term which is being chanted more often than ever in the United States. Through the 2009 Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, the US has spent over $30 billion on EHRs. Are these EHRs really worth the investment? Read More »
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How EHRs Tied Up Physician Time in 2015
As the year draws to a close, we’re taking a look at five of the topics that struck a special chord with the medical community throughout 2015. Burdensome regulations and technology have led physicians to spend considerable time struggling with their electronic health records (EHR). Fortunately, policymakers and health IT developers are starting to take note...
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How Firefox OS Could Sneak Into The Smartphone Chicken Coop
With the mobile industry now so heavily dominated by Android and iOS, is there possibly room for another contender? That remains to be seen, of course, but Firefox OS has several advantages to set it apart. Read More »
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How Firefox OS Plans To Kill — Not Reinvent — The App Store
Mozilla has posted another video about Firefox OS. Intended for app developers, the clip explains a bit about how and why distribution will work in a world without app stores. Read More »
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How Flawed Science Is Undermining Good Medicine
A surprising medical finding caught the eye of NPR's veteran science correspondent Richard Harris in 2014. A scientist from the drug company Amgen had reviewed the results of 53 studies that were originally thought to be highly promising — findings likely to lead to important new drugs. But when the Amgen scientist tried to replicate those promising results, in most cases he couldn't...
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How FrontlineSMS Helped An Indonesian Community Clean Up A River
FrontlineSMS has had a strong connection with environmental issues since our founder had the initial spark of an idea while working on an anti-poaching project in South Africa. We're delighted to share how Een Irawan Putra of KPC Bogor and the Indonesia Nature Film Society used FrontlineSMS in Indonesia to invite the community to help clean up the garbage clogging the Ciliwung River. Read More »
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How GitHub Helps You Hack The Government
On April 9th of last year, someone called Iceeey proposed a change to an obscure document written by the federal government’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The document wasn't that important. [...] But this small request was a very big deal. Read More »
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How Google Plans to Reinvent Healthcare
Glucose-monitoring contact lenses for diabetics, wrist computers that read diagnostic nanoparticles injected in the blood stream, implantable devices that modify electrical signals that pass along nerves, medication robots, human augmentation, human brain simulation -- the list goes on. That's not an inventory of improbable CGI effects from the latest sci-fi movie, it's a list of initiatives being tackled by Alphabet's Google Life Sciences research unit, recently rebranded Verily...
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How Government Can Improve EMR Usability
Government involvement in usability has been the talk recently. In case your not aware, EMR usability is such as problem the government is exploring ways to get involved. [...] Read More »
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How Green Building Standards Can Actually Change People's Behavior
Confirming previous analysis, newly published research indicates that real estate development located, designed and built to the standards of LEED for Neighborhood Development will have dramatically lower rates of driving than average development in the same metropolitan region. Read More »
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How Gurgaon Based Startup Knimbus Helps Scientists Share Findings and Connect with Peers
Melding together the features of popular social networking sites, a fledgling startup in Gurgaon has built a search and collaboration platform that aims to knock down the ivory towers confining global scientific research. Read More »
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How Hackers Can Code a Better America
With the launch of the new Code for America Brigade website, we asked Program Director Kevin Curry to talk about its mission and how you can bring ‘civic hacking’ to where you live. Read More »
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How Have HRSA Grants Helped Or Hindered EHR Meaningful Use?
Has $176.9 million in Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) grants to networks of health centers sufficiently increased the meaningfulness of their EHR adoption and use? According to the Office of Inspector General, the answer to that question is both yes and no. Read More »
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How Health IT Benefits From Obama's Re-election
The day after President Obama was re-elected and Democrats held onto control of the U.S. Senate, the future looked bright to folks in the health IT field. Read More »
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How Healthcare.gov Could Be Hacked
Security experts say the federal health insurance website is vulnerable to a common technique that hackers use to steal personal information. Read More »
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