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Region Not Ready For Health Reform In 2014
About 227,500 Sacramento area residents will be eligible for health coverage in 2014, but an already strained regional safety net is not prepared to care for them, a new market analysis of the region concludes. Read More »
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Regional Extension Centers Struggling to Help Docs Meet Meaningful Use
While the nation's 62 regional extension centers (RECs)--authorized by the HITECH Act to help small practice providers achieve Meaningful Use--recently surpassed an initial goal of signing up 100,000 registrants, additional goals appear to be a bit more elusive, according to an article published recently in the Journal of AHIMA. Read More »
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Regional Latin American And Caribbean Consultation On Open Access To Scientific Information And Research
UNESCO in collaboration with the Government of Jamaica, University of West Indies and the UNESCO National Commission for Jamaica, organized The Regional Latin American and Caribbean Consultation on Open Access to Scientific Information and Research from 5 to 8 March 2013 in Kingston. Read More »
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Registration Now Open for RFID in Health Care 2012
RFID Journal announced today that registration is now open for RFID in Health Care 2012, a conference focused on how health-care providers employ radio frequency identification technologies to lower costs and improve patient outcomes. The event will be held on Sept. 6, 2012, at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel and Towers, located in Massachusetts.
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Registry Finds More Exonerations In 2012
Since 1989, at least 1,089 people convicted of crimes have been officially cleared based on new evidence of their innocence, according to the National Registry of Exonerations annual report released Wednesday (April 3). Read More »
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Regulatory Mandates Spark HIT Spending Uptick
Healthcare IT spending at large North American healthcare organizations is expected to increase to more than $34.5 billion next year, spurred by current regulatory trends. The trend is expected to open up new markets for many vendors. Read More »
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Regulatory Reporting for Adverse Events
Regulatory reporting allows life science manufacturers to identify adverse events before they become critical issues, facilitating proactive risk avoidance and product regulatory and safety adherence, both now and as regulations continue to evolve. Read More »
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Reinventing Discovery On The Way To The Sage Congress
I’m in San Francisco for the Sage Commons Congress, and am excited to be able to contribute. [...] To salvage the 13 hours I read Michael Nielsen’s Reinventing Discovery, finally. It’s testament to the quality of the writing that I glided through it in one sitting (I did have a window seat)... Read More »
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Remarks by Secretary of Defense Panetta and Secretary of Veterans Affairs Shinseki at the James Lovell Federal Health Care Center
Secretary Panetta and I have committed to a single common joint integrated electronic health record -- each of those words means something -- one that is open in architecture and nonproprietary in design to expand information sharing, eliminate gaps between our two robust health care systems. This is key to seamlessness, critical to enhancing quality of health care and essential to controlling costs.
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Remembering an IT Hero
There is a beautiful tribute video on YouTube that I encourage you to watch. One of the visionaries and founding fathers of the massively successful VistA health IT program at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) was Joseph Timothy "Ted" O’Neill, who died in March at the age of 79.
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Remembering Ward Casscells
S. Ward Casscells, the Texas cardiologist who served as the Pentagon’s top doc from April 2007 through April 2009 died on Sunday after a long battle with prostate cancer. Read More »
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Remote Seats available for HANDI’s SMART Platform & OpenEHR Meeting on July 11
HANDI–the Healthcare App Network for Development and Innovation–will host a meeting on the SMART platform and OpenEHR on Wednesday, July 11. This meeting will include expert presentation of the two technologies and an opportunity to explore their further use in the UK and/or possible collaboration at a global level.
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Remote ‘Eye in the Sky’ Keeping Tabs on VA Hospital Patients
Through the Veterans Affairs new Tele-ICU program, which has included the Iowa City VA since December, doctors like Janjua are able to monitor as many as 75 ICU patients at one time around the clock. Read More »
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Rep. Issa: Crafting 21St Century IT Reform
The draft legislation would give agency CIOs effective budget authority over IT programs and put the CIO Council in charge of developing shared services and shared platforms. It also would encourage a broader transition to cloud solutions, make it easier for agencies to embrace the use of open source software, open up federal websites and data for the development of complimentary apps, and support faster data center optimization. Read More »
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Rep. Peters Introduces Health Savings Through Technology Act
Today, Congressman Scott Peters (CA-52) introduced H.R. 3577, the ‘Health Savings Through Technology Act,’ which advocates for a smarter way to deliver health care in the United States – through the increased use of wireless technologies – to help bend the health care cost curve. [...] Read More »
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