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Telemedicine Clinics Make Inroads Into Primary Care
The health IT expansion of the last five years seemed to have left behind videoconferencing for remote patient visits. While it would seem a no-brainer that can potentially save time for both patient and provider, telemedicine seems to have been reserved for high-demand specialists, such as emergency stroke physicians and dermatologists who use telemedicine implementations to bring their skills to patients in rural areas. Read More »
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Telemedicine Comes to Amarillo VA
The Amarillo VA Health Care System received $625,000 between fiscal years 2010 and 2011 to bring Mobile Telemedicine Cart devices to the Amarillo medical center, as well as to outpatient clinics in Lubbock, Childress and Clovis, N.M., spokeswoman Barbara Moore said. Read More »
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Telemedicine Doubles Screening Rates For Retinopathy
The use of telemedicine helped a primary care clinic more than double the percentage of diabetic patients undergoing screening for retinopathy over the course of a year, according to a research letter published this month in the Archives of Internal Medicine. Read More »
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Telemedicine Options Improve for IHS & VA Patients
Connecting patients in rural locations with providers hundreds, or even thousands, of miles away continues to be a challenge for Indian Health Services and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, but one that coordinators say it’s worth it for patient care and cost savings. Read More »
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Telemetry – Reboot, Firefox OS, Probe Expiration
Telemetry has seen a resurgence of development of late due in large part to the reboot of the server side component. A group of us gathered in Portland last week to hack on Telemetry concepts (and code). I would like to share three updates: Telemetry project reboot, Telemetry for Firefox OS, and Telemetry probe expiration. Read More »
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Telemonitoring Takes A Leap Forward
Continua Health Alliance officials on Wednesday praised the Texas Health and Human Service Commission for the approval of rules allowing Texas Medicaid to begin reimbursing for telemonitoring services and setup, effective October 1. Read More »
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Tell Us Again, Why Are There MU Penalties?
As we noted yesterday, healthcare providers and consultants are in the process of deciphering the implications of MU Stage 2. Read More »
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Ten Open Source Hardware And Design Projects That Are Setting New Standards
The Open Source hardware and design community is on fire these days. Apart from the projects that eventually already gained worldwide recognition such as Open Source Ecology, DIYDrones, Arduino or RepRap, many fantastic projects, focused on specific aspects, hold great promises. Read More »
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Ten Reasons Why Hospitals, Health Plans And Medical Groups Should Invest In Developing Their Physicians’ Patient-Centered Communication Skills
It’s no secret that poor communication tops the list of patient complaints about their physicians. [...] While understandable, that kind of a response seems to demean the interpersonal exchange which is the very essence of the physician-patient relationship. Read More »
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Ten Simple Rules For The Open Development Of Scientific Software
Open-source software development has had significant impact, not only on society, but also on scientific research. Papers describing software published as open source are amongst the most widely cited publications [...]. It is surprising, therefore, that so few papers are accompanied by open software, given the benefits that this may bring. Read More »
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Ten Steps You Can Take Right Now Against Internet Surveillance
One of the trends we've seen is how, as the word of the NSA's spying has spread, more and more ordinary people want to know how (or if) they can defend themselves from surveillance online. But where to start?
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Ten Years after Budapest Open Access Initiative New Recommendations Released
In response to the growing demand to make research free and available to anyone with a computer and an internet connection, a diverse coalition today issued new guidelines that could usher in huge advances in the sciences, medicine, and health. Read More »
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Tennessee looks to VistA for new Medicaid IT system
With its DOS-era IT system approaching obsolescence, the Tennessee Department of Health is looking to build a new Medicaid IT system with the Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture, the VistA open source platform. Read More »
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TENSIO™ Taps HealthKit Data to Put Anyone with High Blood Pressure in Control Latest App from Humetrix Set to Debut at Digital Health Summit at International CES
Humetrix is set to introduce TENSIO™, the first in a suite of healthcare apps which aim to give consumers more control and better visibility into their medical conditions. TENSIO is designed for anyone who wants to measure the effects of lifestyle and prescribed medications on blood pressure.
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Test centers for new DoD-VA health records system to open by Oct. 1
The Defense and Veterans Affairs departments will use existing DoD facilities in Richmond, Va., and on Hawaii’s island of Maui to develop and test components of a new $4 billion integrated electronic health record (iEHR) system. The centers, to be opened at DoD’s joint information technology centers there by Oct. 1, are a key step in the departments’ effort to make active-duty military members’ electronic health records accessible to VA doctors, and to have vets’ records accessible to VA and other health care providers. Read More »
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