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Three Keys To Successful CPOE Implementation
Training, support and anxiety management all are key to the implementation of computerized physician order entry systems, according to research published this week in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. Read More »
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Three Kids in a Garage
As I think about social enterprises in the developing world, many emerge as responses to market and government failure. M-Pesa in Kenya, for example, emerged in response to unbanked people having no way to safely transfer funds within the country...Unless we pay attention to what’s happening around us, much smaller and nimbler actors will prove that neither access to capital nor knowledge is a sustainable comparative advantage.
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Three Technology Trends Driving Big Changes For Federal Managers
The bungled rollout of HealthCare.gov has created a crisis of confidence in government’s ability to execute technologically complex undertakings. Nevermind the human genome project, NASAs exploration of Mars or a host of other breakthrough initiatives, the collateral damage inflicted by the malfunctioning insurance exchange has politicians, taxpayers and even federal employees questioning whether agencies can operate effectively in a digital world. Read More »
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Three Things You Need To Understand About 3D Printing To Talk About It Intelligently
Several of the biggest brains in 3D printing joined Quartz for a discussion about the future of the technology at General Assembly in New York City on July 16. Here are the three most interesting things we learned. Read More »
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Three US Hospitals Hit by Ransomware
The IT systems of three US hospitals have been infected with ransomware, which encrypts vital files and demands money to unlock them. The systems, at Kentucky Methodist Hospital, Chino Valley Medical Center and Desert Valley Hospital, California, are now running normally again. None of the hospitals is believed to have paid the ransom. And the cases are now being investigated by the FBI...
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Three Words That Health Care Should Stop Using: Insurance, Market, and Quality (Part 2 of 2)
Andy Oram
Endless organizations such as the National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) collect quality measures, and CMS has tried strenuously to include quality measures in Meaningful Use and the new MACRA program. We actually have not a dearth of quality measures, but a surfeit. Doctors feel overwhelmed with these measures. They are difficult to collect, and we don’t know how to combine them to create easy reports that patients can act on. There is a difference between completing a successful surgery, caring for things such as pain and infection prevention after surgery, and creating a follow-up plan that minimizes the chance of readmission. All those things (and many more) are elements of quality.
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Ticking All The Boxes For A Health Care Upgrade At Strata Rx
What is needed for successful reform of the health care system? Here’s what we all know: that a data-rich health care future is coming our way. And what it will look like, in large outlines. Health care reformers have learned that no single practice will improve the system. All of the following, which were discussed at O’Reilly’s recent Strata Rx conference, must fall in place. Read More »
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Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of the Web, Plots a Radical Overhaul of His Creation
Thirteen years ago the Queen of England dubbed Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the worldwide web, a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Today he received what in the tech world counts as a much higher distinction: a Turing Award. The prestigious prize, presented each year by the Association for Computing Machinery, amounts to the Nobel Prize of computing and comes with a million dollars. Berners-Lee received the award for creating the technology that underpins the web 28 years ago. But he sees his creation as the work of countless other people—and believes that work is far from over...
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TIM Review’s Evolution from Ottawa Journal to International Resource
From its humble beginnings as the Open Source Business Resource to its status today as an internationally acclaimed journal for academics and businesspeople alike, the Technology Innovation Management Review has made its name on staying ahead of the curve. Tony Bailetti, director of Carleton University’s TIM program, launched the journal back in 2007. At the time, it was an experiment to uncover how business owners might make use of open-source applications...
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Time For Internet Engineers To Fight Back Against The “Surveillance Internet”
Amid torrent of revelations that the NSA finds mass surveillance easy, the IETF ponders how to harden the Internet. Read More »
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Time For Research And Action
In the first of a short series of posts, Anne Radl reflects on the Getting in the Access Loop webinar run last month by the Humanitarian Centre, HIFA2015 and PLoS. Read More »
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Time For Zero-Tolerance
[...] I wonder why so many “designing” and procuring NHS IT Systems manage to deliver systems that make life more difficult for frontline staff undermining the quality and service they are able to offer patients. Read More »
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Time To Deliver On Federal IT Reform
First four years of the Obama Administration were marked by the beginnings of significant changes in federal IT. Execution will be the name of the game during the next four. Read More »
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Time to Extend my Extension Idea
You should put together the success story of the health IT extension program and take it to Congress. Tell its members the country needs this program and should fund it going forward. Read More »
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Time To Pay The Price Of War
Help has been slow to come for members of our military and our veterans in crisis. Nearly 1 million veterans from various wars await a ruling from the Veterans Administration on their claims for disability. The VA estimates that in the next several months, another 1.2 million claims will come in as more troops return and more veterans recognize that they suffer from PTSD...
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