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Twelve years ago, the Institute of Medicine issued a landmark report showing that medical errors in U.S hospitals kill up to 98,000 Americans a year. People responded to the alarm. Task forces were convened. Congressional investigations launched. Op-eds written. Yet as hard as it may be to believe, American medicine is, if anything, even more dangerous today. In this groundbreaking Washington Monthly article, investigative journalist Marshall Allen documents how contact with the U.S. health care system has become a leading cause of death in the United States and proposes solutions.

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You'd be forgiven for thinking revenue cycle management technology is a bit, well, boring. You'd also be wrong. The coming years are going to see some big changes in the way hospitals get paid, and the IT they use to track when and how they get paid is going to have to change as well. Read More »

Figure1 is a free iOS app (Android to come) debuting today at the Apple app store that hopes to be a “crowdsourced medical image library that healthcare professionals can use to share, rank, and discuss images.” [...] Read More »

This past week, we saw the release of Ubuntu 13.10. And, with it, we got the first official release of Ubuntu Touch (dubbed "Ubuntu Phone 1.0"). So, of course, I couldn't resist installing the "1.0" version of the operating system that Canonical is pitting against the likes of Android and iOS.

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ReWalk Robotics Ltd...announced today that a commercial health plan in the Northwest region of the United States has approved coverage and reimbursement for a ReWalk Personal exoskeleton system, following the ruling of an external independent review organization that overturned the health plan's initial denial of coverage. The beneficiary of the ReWalk device is a surgeon who suffered a spinal cord injury and currently uses a manual custom wheelchair 11 hours a day at work.  Use of the ReWalk will permit the beneficiary to stand up and ambulate both at work and in the home.

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RFP-EZ has been touted as a faster, easier way for tech companies to compete for the federal government's IT contracts, and now data suggests the pilot program also has the potential to save big taxpayer dollars. Read More »

There must be plenty of people who shudder when they hear that Peter  Gøtzsche will be speaking at a meeting or see his name  on the contents list of a journal. He is like the young boy who not only could see that the emperor had no clothes but also said so. [...] Read More »