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Industry Groups To HHS: Include Patient Generated Data In MU Stage 3
Eight healthcare and technology industry groups have sent a letter to the Health IT Policy Committee (HITPC), in the Department of Health and Human Services, asking that Meaningful Use Stage 3 guidelines include a requirement that electronic health records make use of patient generated data from remote monitoring devices. Read More »
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Industry Needs To Step Up To Protect The Power Grid From Cyber Attack
Energy companies should create a new industry-led body to deflect cyber threats to the electric grid -- from large generators to local distribution utilities, according to a new report co-authored by Ret. Gen. Michael Hayden, former CIA and National Security Agency director.
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Industry Voices: In Pursuit of Scientific Hive Mind
A vocal and active scientific community is clamoring for unrestricted access to scholarly works, a movement known as "open access", while journal publishers largely resist the call...But why is open access important? And even if it becomes a reality, what will we do with all of that information once we get it? Read More »
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Industry Welcomes DeSalvo To ONC
Karen DeSalvo, MD, current health commissioner of New Orleans, will be taking the ONC reins Jan. 13, replacing acting national coordinator Jacob Reider. She is the first woman to serve in this role. Read More »
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Inevitable. Inextricable. Imminent.
Greeting Netizens. Since you are reading this blog, you obviously belong to the “Internet of Persons,” a growing global population of 2.5 billion of your fellow human beings. But as sentient surfers, you are not alone... Read More »
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Infographic: 15 Ways Your Smartphone Can Influence Health Outcomes
Can your smartphone serve as a behavior change agent to influence positive health outcomes? This infographic created by Mobiquity highlights 15 ways your smartphone can help monitor, motivate, and influence health outcomes by delivering the right message, at the right time, in the right place. Read More »
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Infographic: 8 Innovative Technologies Transforming Digital Health
Infographic visualization created by MeMD highlights 8 new innovative technology transforming digital health to reduce costs and improve consumer healthcare. Read More »
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Infographic: Healthcare Quality Revolution On Hawaii
This infographic from the Hawaii Island Beacon Community illustrates how the organization aims to transform healthcare on the island. Read More »
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Infographic: The Impact Of Duplicate Medical Records In Healthcare
The rise of duplicate medical records is growing exponentially in the healthcare industry as more hospitals using EHRs share information through Integrated Delivery Networks (IDNs) and Health Information Exchanges (HIEs). Read More »
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Information Asymmetry – The Politics Of Health IT Policy
Let’s recognize Healthcare.gov as the dawn of mass patient engagement – and applaud it. Before this website, patients were along for the ride. Employers choose most of the insurance benefits, hospital web portals are an afterthought, and getting anything done with an insurance company, for both doctors and patients, means a phone call and paper. [...] Read More »
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Information Needed to Treat Put Beyond Physicians' Reach: Free Online Access to Medical Journal Articles Must Be the Norm
Thanks to the diligence of so many students, scientists, clinicians and public supporters of free and open access to research, FRPAA has been reintroduced, and the RWA has been thwarted, at least for now. These proponents of open access refused to accept that in this digital age, clinicians should be so removed from the data providing the foundation for evidence-based practice...Our voice has been heard, but the fight rages on. Read More »
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Information Wants To Be Complex
Questions lead to answers that lead to more questions. Tactical Tech Info Activism Camp has a number of tracks: Documentation, Investigation, Curation, and Beautiful Troublemakers. I joined the “microscopes are us” evidence team aka Documentation. [...] Read More »
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Ingestible Robots Could Help Save Kids Who Swallow Batteries
Every year, more than 3,500 people in the United States swallow button batteries. Between 2005 and 2014, doctors reported 11,940 cases of children under the age of 6 who ingested a battery. Swallowed batteries don’t cause harm if they are digested normally. But if they become lodged in the tissue of the stomach or esophagus, they can cause an electric current that produces hydroxide, a chemical that burns and damages tissue. But now researchers at MIT have developed a tiny origami robot that can unfold itself from a swallowed capsule...
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Injured Ex-Soldiers Often Unfairly Denied Benefits, AG Finds [Canada]
The Harper government's oft-repeated slogan of supporting the troops took several hits in the latest auditor general's report, which found injured ex-soldiers don't always get their entitled services and benefits. Read More »
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Inner-Sourcing: Adopting Open Source Development Processes In Corporate IT
Today, we are hearing from customers more and more frequently that they want to gain the benefits of open source community-style collaborative development inside their corporate development organizations – what Tim O’Reilly has called “inner-sourcing.” Read More »
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