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Advancing the Coordination of Health IT for Military and Government
Defense Strategies Institute is proud to announce their 11th DoD/VA and Gov Health IT Summit occurring on October 4-5, 2016. With the central theme of “Advancing the Coordination of Health IT,” the Summit will bring together senior leaders from DoD, VA, HHS, Federal and State agencies, along with leaders from Industry and Academia that support them, for two days of Government briefings and informal discussions in their "Town Hall" setting in Alexandria, VA. DSI has created a Summit that will bring together a variety of stakeholders in order to build out two days of discussion and debates that tackle many of the areas involved in modernizing the DoD and VA health systems in order to provide better care to our warfighters and veterans.
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Advancing User Experience Research To Facilitate And Enable Patient Centered Research: Current State And Future Directions
Human beings possess well-documented strengths in pattern recognition and higher-order reasoning. This allows individuals to interpret complex data sets in ways that remain difficult to reproduce using computers. [...] Read More »
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Advice To The Next National Coordinator
Over the next few months, Jacob Reider will serve as the interim National Coordinator for Healthcare IT while the search continues for Farzad Mostashari's permanent replacement. Read More »
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Advocacy Group Calls on Health-Care Industry to Adopt Medical Device Security Principles
Advocacy group I Am the Cavalry is urging organizations that manufacture and distribute medical devices to adopt a cybersecurity version of the Hippocratic Oath. The group, which advocates for better security in life-impacting computers like those used in modern cars, medical devices or critical infrastructure, has published an open letter to the health-care industry, calling for a commitment to five principles when creating, using and maintaining medical devices...
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Advocacy Groups Support EC Guide Against IT Vendor Lock-In
European groups advocating public administration's use of free and open source software and open standards are welcoming the 'Guide for the procurement of standards-based ICT', published by the European Commission this week Tuesday. Read More »
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AEGIS Launches The OSEHRA Interoperability Work Group (IWG) And Contributes Developers Integration Lab (DIL) Source Code
AEGIS will chair the work group and submit their DIL source code to the OSEHRA open source repository. Read More »
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Aetna CEO To Justice Department: Block Our Deal And We'll Drop Out Of Obamacare
It's not often in the midst of an antitrust fight that the public gets a look at the gamesmanship that's happening behind the scenes. But thanks to the Huffington Post's Jonathan Cohn and Jeff Young, we got a glimpse at how health insurer Aetna is making its case to acquire rival Humana — and new insight into Aetna's decision announced Tuesday to pull out of Obamcare exchanges in 11 states. The reporters obtained a copy of a letter from Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini to the Justice Department on July 5...
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Aetna Has Revealed Obamacare's Many Broken Promises
They’re dropping like flies. The health-insurance giant Aetna has announced it will exit 11 of the 15 health-insurance exchanges where it sells Obamacare plans. Aetna’s announcement comes on the heels of news that UnitedHealthcare, Humana, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Mexico, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, and Texas’ Scott and White Health Plan, and 70% of Obamacare’s failed Co-Ops, and other insurers will exit many or all of the exchanges for which they had previously shown such enthusiasm...
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Affinity Nurses Seek Delay On Electronic Records
Affinity Medical Center registered nurses are asking hospital officials to delay a new electronic health record system set to begin this weekend. Read More »
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Affinity RNs Call For Halt To Flawed Electronic Medical Records System Scheduled To Go Live Friday
Affinity Medical Center RNs in Massillon, Ohio are calling on hospital officials to delay the planned June 21 implementation of the Cerner electronic medical records (EMR) system, until the hospital bargains with the nurses and proceeds in a safe manner. The direct-care RNs, represented by the National Nurses Organizing Committee (NNOC) in Ohio, an affiliate of National Nurses United (NNU), say that nurses, the primary users of the complex system, have had insufficient training, which will put patients at risk. Read More »
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Affordable Care Act (ACA) Web Site: Too Much Help Will Slow The Project
What’s the problem with ObamaCare? Recent technical problems call that question to mind, but the answer is not what you may be thinking. Read More »
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Affordable Care Act’s Impact on Health Care for Veterans
While the Affordable Care Act will expand health insurance coverage for low-income persons through Medicaid and state health insurance exchanges, including much-needed care for 1.8 million uninsured veterans in the U.S., the new insurance coverage option also may have a number of unintended negative effects on health care for veterans, said Kenneth W. Kizer... Read More »
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AFGE Rep: VA Paperless Claims System Shuts Down On A Weekly Basis
The Veterans Affairs Department’s $492 million paperless Veterans Benefits Management System routinely shuts down on roughly a weekly basis, according to reports from members of the American Federation of Government Employees who use the system. Read More »
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Africa And LTE #1: Inbound Roamers (Or Tourists To You And Me)
Africa is upgrading to next-generation mobile networks. Tourism is one of the reasons why. Read More »
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Africa And LTE #2: Leapfrogging Fixed Broadband
While the West goes about the expensive process of replacing old systems with new ones, Africa is skipping straight to the latest technology. Read More »
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