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A Standard Model For Evaluating Return On Investment From Electronic Health Record Implementation
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) Roundtable on Value and Science-Driven Healthcare views electronic health information as a pillar for the improved effectiveness, efficiency and safety of health care. Information is also fundamental to the concept of a “learning health system,” which IOM has described as having the capacity both to apply and generate scientific evidence in the delivery of care. [...] Read More »
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A Startlingly Simple Theory About The Missing Malaysia Airlines Jet
There has been a lot of speculation about Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Terrorism, hijacking, meteors. I cannot believe the analysis on CNN; it’s almost disturbing. I tend to look for a simpler explanation, and I find it with the 13,000-foot runway at Pulau Langkawi.
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A Sub-$1,000 3D Printer For Metal
3D printers can make fantastic shapes, whether someone wants to create an interlocking shape with no seams or a bacon-textured mobius strip. Read More »
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A Sustainable City With Cars And Low-Density Homes? It's Possible
The core problem of creating sustainable cities is as well-known as it is tricky. On the one hand, everyone who's thoughtful about urban sustainability admits the environmental, economic, and social problems of sprawl and auto-dependency. Read More »
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A Sustainable National Healthcare System: Prevention Only
The current sickcare system will bankrupt the nation. One model of a sustainable national system would focus solely on providing preventative care. Read More »
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A Tale Of Two IT Procurements
Recently, the President of the United States, the most powerful person on earth, the man whose finger rests on the nuclear button, struck a bold blow for . . . procurement reform? Read More »
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A Tale Of Two Studies: What Are The Actual Costs Of An EHR?
Does anyone in their right mind believe that these are the best of times in healthcare or health IT? Scratch that. Does anyone besides Judy Faulkner and Neal Patterson believe these are the best of times? Read More »
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A Time Out For Health IT?
A recent RAND(1) study has concluded that the implementation of health information technology (HIT) has neither effected a reduction in the cost of healthcare nor an improvement in the quality of healthcare. Read More »
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A Treasure-Trove Of iOS Apps For Healthcare Professionals
Apple has opened up a library of great App Store resources for healthcare professionals, many of which are free. This article will show you how to find them. Read More »
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A Trip Through A 3D-Modeled Brain
Brains are, by design, incredibly dense. Whether a particular brain belongs to a human or a mouse, it features layer upon layer of matter that twists and turns and is almost incomprehensible in its complexity... Read More »
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A Troubling Result From Publishing Open Access Articles With CC-BY
For week four of the Why Open? course, we are looking at potential benefits of openness, as well as potential problems with it. There are many, many interesting stories and case studies listed on that part of the course, and I’m still working through looking at them (I’m interested in them all!). Read More »
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A Troubling Strategy At Health IT Week
Health IT Week demonstrated a double barrel strategy to segregate patient information from provider information. Providers already have the power to set prices and health IT plays the central role. Read More »
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A Truly Open VistA
The VA has released a draft RFP to create a new open source project around their electronic health record system, VistA. This is a landmark event for both the VA and the open source community. The need for cheap and robust EHR systems is clear, and the VA has one of the leading platforms.
See https://www.fbo.gov/notices/1b174bb5c6f6770e1032ef15ab3bcedb
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A Victory for Open Access
Harvard University's decision to ask faculty members to make their papers available in the university's open-access repository and choose open-access journals or those with reasonable subscription costs is a sign that the movement for affordable research is gaining ground. Read More »
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A Way For Biopharma To Disclose More Trial Data
[...] At a time when some regulatory bodies and biopharma companies are increasing their transparency initiatives involving access to clinical-trial data, disclosing trial results to volunteers could also go a long way toward strengthening public confidence. Read More »
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