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PeerJ Leads A High-Quality, Low-Cost New Breed Of Open-Access Publisher
A one-off fee allows researchers to publish as many papers as they like. The first open access PeerJ articles appear today Read More »
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Pending Upheaval In"The Year Of The Great EHR Switch" Shifts Spotlight To e-Health Industry's Best, Black Book Reveals 2013 Top Scoring Vendors
With more electronic health record systems continuing to fall short of providers' expectations, a new report by Black Book Rankings suggests that 2013 may indeed be the "year of the great EHR vendor switch"... Read More »
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Penguin Ebooks & The Research Works Act: Publishers Gain, Communities Lose
I was really angry riding home on the bus last Friday night. Not angry because the transit system here in Toronto is royally fudged in general or that transit to York University is fudged in particular. [...] It was the growing tendency of publishers of all sorts to try and take their works out of the public cultural commons and place them exclusively behind pay walls. Read More »
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Penn Medicine Study Sheds Light on Why Low-Income Patients Prefer Hospital Care to a Doctor's Office
Health Reform Initiatives Need to Improve Perceived Quality, Cost and Accessibility of Primary Care to Reduce Low Value Care Read More »
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Penn State Associate Professor Of English Stuart Selber On MOOCs
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are online courses with open access through world wide web. Students taking part in such courses participate in online classes and discussions, make notes, and give test and assignments. Read More »
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Pentagon Accepts Bids on Long-Awaited Health Records Contract
The Defense Department on Monday opened its Healthcare Management Systems Modernization contract to bids, beginning what could be an $11 billion effort over the next decade to modernize the way the Pentagon provides health care to service members. Read More »
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Pentagon Aims To Boost EHR Interoperability With VA
Last month, the Department of Defense issued a draft request for proposals that would help the agency meet requirements for electronic health record interoperability under the Healthcare Management Systems Modernization project, EHR Intelligence reports (Bresnick, EHR Intelligence, 2/7). Read More »
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Pentagon Approves Use Of Samsung Android And New BlackBerry Devices
The Defense Department has approved the Android Knox smartphone made by Samsung and new BlackBerry smartphones and tablets running Enterprise Service 10 software for use on its networks. Read More »
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Pentagon Expects To Save $2.4 Billion By Reforming Military Health Care
The Defense Department expects to save $2.4 billion over the next six years by consolidating functions previously performed by the three services and the Tricare Management Activity under a new Defense Health Agency, which will begin operation Oct. 1. Read More »
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Pentagon Kicks Off Procurement To Maintain Current Health Record Until 2018
The Defense Health Agency has kicked off a procurement to sustain the current Defense Department electronic health record system through the end of 2018, potentially pushing back deployment of a new military EHR until 2019. Read More »
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Pentagon Resists Administration’s Mandate for an Open Source Health Records System
President Obama has backed open standards for an integrated electronic health record system to serve the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments since his first term, but Pentagon plans to acquire commercial software to replace the department’s current EHR are “manifestly inconsistent” with that approach, J. Michael Gilmore, the Pentagon’s director of operational test and evaluation wrote in a blistering memo. Read More »
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Pentagon Spent Over $4 Billion On Mental Health Treatment Between 2007 And 2012
The Congressional Research Service just put a price tag on the mental health costs of the long wars in Afghanistan and Iraq: about $4.5 billion between 2007 and 2012. The Defense Department spent $958 million on mental health treatment in 2012, roughly double the $468 million it spent in 2007. Read More »
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Pentagon Taps SPAWAR Folks To Run Electronic Health Record
The new Defense Department office set up to manage development of the next generation, multi-billion dollar electronic health record has filled its key positions with personnel drawn from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, Nextgov has learned. Read More »
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Pentagon: China Views Information Warfare As Key To Countering U.S. Pacific Forces
China views cyber warfare as the essential element to attack U.S. forces operating in the western Pacific, the Defense Department reported today in its annual analysis of that country’s military capabilities. Read More »
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Pentagon’s New Health Record System Will Cost $1.5 Billion
The Pentagon plans to spend $1.5 billion procuring a new, commercial electronic health record system from 2017 through 2019, new budget documents disclosed.
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