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Treating Organizational Ills Via Patient-Centered Care
To truly deliver “more for less” government health agencies should look to organizational advancements made by another community fraught with complexity, trying to cut costs and improve quality simultaneously — the medical community.
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TRENDnet Teases Open Source-Friendly Entry Level Router
Looking for a new wireless router but don't have loads of money to spend? TRENDnet may have what you're looking for in the new N150 Wireless Router (model TEW-712BR). It's a single-band device offering wireless speeds of up to 150 Mb/s that can shoot HD video over to your HDTV while you're lounging on the couch reading Tom's Hardware. Read More »
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Trentino joins Italy's open source alliance
The Autonomous Province of Trentino - Alto Adige this week joined the ranks of Italian regional administrations that are turning their backs on proprietary software in favor of free and open source alternatives...New law affects the software choices of some 15,000 public offices in the region...
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Trial Designed With Crowd Input Gets FDA Signoff
What's been called the first clinical study protocol developed using crowdsourcing methods received the FDA's imprimatur earlier this month. The agency approved Transparency Life Sciences' IND for a clinical trial designed to test a generic blood-pressure medication, ACE inhibitor lisinopril, in patients with relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis. Read More »
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Tricare Networks Eyed To Improve Veterans' Access To Care
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has proposed opening military Tricare networks of civilian health care providers to veterans who can’t get timely mental health care from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Read More »
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Troops Stressed to Breaking Point
A recent Army health report draws an alarming profile of a fighting force more prone to inexcusable violence amid an “epidemic” of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the mental breakdown attracting speculation as a factor in a massacre of Afghan civilians this month. Read More »
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Troops With Traumatic Brain Injury Show Symptoms 5 Years Later
A high proportion of the 273,859 troops diagnosed with traumatic brain injury since the start of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq continued to experience “significant symptoms and problems” five years after injury, the Pentagon said in its first take on a 15-year TBI study mandated by Congress. Read More »
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Trove Of Medical Devices Found To Have Password Problems
Surgical devices, ventilators, defibrillators, and monitors are among the equipment at risk. Read More »
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Trump Says VA’s EHR Woes Are Finally Fixed. Not Quite
To hear the President of the United States tell it, the Department of Veterans Affairs' frequently maligned EHR system has been fixed in just a few short weeks. During a speech on Tuesday in Ohio, President Donald Trump praised the work of Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin in reforming the agency responsible for providing medical care to the nation’s veterans. He specifically underscored the efforts his administration has taken to improve the VA’s EHR system...
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Trusting Healthcare Data
Healthcare is generating data at an unprecedented rate. EHR software is becoming a large repository of healthcare data. [...] We’re surrounded by healthcare data. The question is: How do we make sure they trust the data? Read More »
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Trying To Lower Readmissions? Give Your Patients A Health App
On October 1 2012, the CMS Readmission Reduction Program kicked in - much to the consternation of 2,217 hospitals that will be penalized. This followed 18 months of hand wringing that began when the program was introduced as part of the Affordable Care Act in March 2010. Read More »
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TTIP Updates - The Glyn Moody Blogs
Tracking the twists and turns of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and spelling out what it really means Read More »
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Turning Tea Into Medical Breakthroughs
Recently, the World Health Organization warned that we are entering a “post-antibiotic era” in which “common infections and minor injuries can kill,” due to the widespread resistance of bacteria to antibiotics and the emergence of “superbugs.” Maybe the answer is tea. Seton Hall professor Tin-Chun Chu...has shown in her research that processed tea extracts (polyphenols) can fight bacteria — including Staphylococcus epidermis, a widely resistant bacteria and a major concern for the medical community and hospitals in particular, Escherichia coli (E. coli) and S. marcescens, an opportunistic human pathogen which is very resistant to most antibiotics...
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Tutorial 19a: Open Access Definitions And Clarifications, Part 1: What Actually Is Open Access?
I’m going to keep this free of advocacy. Hopefully everything I say here will be uncontroversial, because all I am doing is surveying definitions and clarifying distinctions. I’ll save my opinions for later articles (not that there is any secret about them). Read More »
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Tutorial 19b: Open Access Definitions And Clarifications, Part 2: Gold And Green
Last time, we looked at what the term “open access” actually means. We noted that its been widely abused, so that when you need to be specific about the full meaning you need to say “BOAI-compliant”; we recognised that much of what is described as OA is really only “gratis OA”, or as Ross Mounce called it, “gratis access”; and we noted that the term “libre open access” is literally meaningless and should be avoided. Read More »
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