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Internet Giants, Amid Grumbling, Release New Data On Government Spying
Several Internet behemoths released updated data Monday detailing in broad terms the amount of national security requests for user data they have received from the government, part of transparency reports recently permitted by the Obama administration. Read More »
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Internet of Things in Healthcare: What's Next for IoT Technology in the Health Sector
Internet of Things technology holds the potential to revolutionise the healthcare industry, but not before overcoming barriers of security and data ownership.
Internet of Things (IoT) refers to any physical object embedded with technology capable of exchanging data and is pegged to create a more efficient healthcare system in terms of time, energy and cost. One area where the technology could prove transformative is in healthcare – with analysts at MarketResearch.com claiming the sector will be worth $117 million by 2020...
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Internet of Things Project Allows Quadriplegic Driver to Race
The Internet of Things is cool, and semi-autonomous cars are cool. Putting them together is extra cool. But putting them together to enable former IndyCar driver, current co-owner of IndyCar team Schmidt Peterson Motorsports, and quadriplegic Sam Schmidt to race again is the highest level of cool. Volunteers working at the tech company Arrow have been working on its SAM (Semi-Autonomous Motorcar) project for a few years now. Their goal was to take the latest in IoT innovations and enable Schmidt to actually drive again...
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Interns spend More Time With Computers Than Patients: Study
The time medical interns spend interacting with patients continues to drop, taking up only 12% of their working hours, according to a study at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital and the University of Maryland Medical Center. Read More »
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Interoperability Headaches in Fitness and Medical Devices
The promise of device data pervades the health care field. It’s
intrinsic to patient-centered medical homes, it beckons clinicians who are enamored with hopes for patient engagement, and it causes data analysts in health care to salivate. This promise also drives the data aggregation services offered by Validic and just recently, the Shimmer integration tool from Open mHealth. But according to David Haddad, Executive Director and Co-Founder of Open mHealth, devices resist attempts to yield up their data to programmers and automated tools.
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Interoperability Hurdles Impede ACOs
For accountable care organizations, a lack of interoperability between their health information technology systems and those of providers outside their ACO is the No. 1 challenge they face, cited by 79% of respondents to a survey of 68 ACOs by group purchaser and performance-improvement company Premier and health IT collaborative eHealth Initiative...
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Interoperability Inches Ahead For EHRs
A new data liquidity initiative between a Pennsylvania women’s hospital and a nearby obstetrics and gynecology practice have resulted in the interoperability between the groups’ different electronic health record systems, officials announced Tuesday. Read More »
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Interoperability Issues Keep Clinicians From Sharing Health Info Electronically
Clinicians want to share health care information electronically, but are stymied by electronic health records that can't communicate with one another, a lack of information-exchange infrastructure, and the expense of setting up electronic interfaces and information exchanges, a new survey finds. Read More »
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Interoperability testing critical for exchange, Aegis.Net says
Aegis.Net Inc. recently was selected by the National Institute of Standards and Technology to establish a health IT test infrastructure that verifies conformance and interoperability with industry standards as part of meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs). The NIST $6.25 million contract award is one example of the recognition and rising importance of testing for interoperability to make sure that health IT systems have standards in place according to specifications and can effectively exchange information. Read More »
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Interoperability: Are We Letting Future Generations Down?
There’s little arguing that drastic improvement to healthcare data interoperability is necessary. It’s not just electronic health records, either, but also the range of technologies spanning from personal medical devices to massive information systems. Read More »
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Interoperability: Quick Route To Better Care
Healthcare quality and efficiency could move forward 20 years in a matter of months if only there were true interoperability of electronic health information, according to a noted critic of the health IT industry. Read More »
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Interoperability? Not Without Standards
We constantly hear that healthcare needs interoperability like the ATM or cell phone networks, but what does that really mean? Interoperability is becoming more important as we begin to implement systems in all of healthcare. The goal of the HITECH and ACA legislation was to increase the use of HIT throughout the modes of care. Once implemented, especially at scale, these systems need to easily talk or communicate with each other. Read More »
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InterSystems Recognized by SD Times for Innovation and Leadership in Big Data and Business Intelligence
InterSystems...today announced it was again named one of the software industry’s top 100 innovators by SD Times. This is the seventh consecutive year that SD Times has recognized InterSystems in the annual software industry ranking. InterSystems Caché® is an extremely fast, robust, and massively scalable data platform, enabling developers to create rich Web and mobile applications. It provides multiple modes of data access – including SQL, NoSQL, document, key/value, and multidimensional access – and can process these structured and unstructured data types simultaneously, to deliver just-in-time insight at the point of action.
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InterSystems Successfully Completes eHealth Exchange Product Testing to Ensure Interoperability
InterSystems...today announced that the InterSystems HealthShare® informatics platform has successfully completed the eHealth Exchange Product Testing Program. As an eHealth Exchange Validated product, HealthShare supports a common set of standards and specifications that enable a secure, trusted, and interoperable connection among all participating eHealth Exchange organizations for the standardized flow of information, benefiting millions of patients. Read More »
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InterSystems Zen Mojo Simplifies Development of Web-Based Enterprise Applications for Mobile and Desktop
InterSystems...today announced InterSystems Zen Mojo, a new technology for faster and easier development of Web-based applications for mobile and desktop environments. InterSystems Zen Mojo simplifies the development of data-rich, enterprise-class Web applications that leverage the innate functionality and highly responsive user interfaces of mobile devices. The open source plugin framework allows rapid adoption of new and rapidly evolving client libraries. Read More »
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