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VA-DoD Integrated Health App Coming, Says VA Official
The Veterans Affairs and Defense departments are working on a mobile application that will complement the integrated electronic health record, said Kathleen Frisbee, director of web and mobile solutions at VA. Read More »
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VA/Private Sector Medical Records Sharing Partnership Completes Phase I
In an effort to provide Veterans with more comprehensive care, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System can now view electronic patient records with select health care providers across the region, including UPMC, Butler Health System, ACMH Hospital, Excela Health, Heritage Valley Health System, St. Clair Hospital, Washington Health System, and Presbyterian SeniorCare. The long-awaited and milestone connectivity with ClinicalConnect’s health information exchange (HIE), improves coordination of care and will reduce unnecessary testing for thousands of western Pennsylvania Veterans receiving care from both VA and non-VA providers.
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Valley General Hospital Goes Live on OpenVista Electronic Health Record
Medsphere Systems Corporation and Valley General Hospital (VGH) today announced that VGH is up and running on Medsphere’s OpenVista® electronic health record (EHR). The Snohomish County community hospital, located northeast of Seattle, now looks forward to Meaningful Use 2014 certification later this year and federal reimbursement early next year. Both Medsphere and VGH estimate that federal Meaningful Use funds will cover most if not all of the initial five-year subscription costs for OpenVista. Read More »
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Valuable Mental Health Apps Lost in a Sea of Untrustworthy Digital Solutions
The mental health industry has been flooded with potentially untrustworthy apps.
With more than 10,000 mobile health apps available to assist with mental health treatment, patients and clinicians now face the daunting challenge of parsing out trustworthy digital tools. That challenge has only intensified as more apps have entered the marketplace amid the FDA’s hands-off approach to regulating apps and wearables, researchers wrote in JAMA Psychiatry...
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Value Of Developing, Optimizing EHR Systems For Clinicians
As defined by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), meaningful use is the implementation and adoption of EHR systems to increase the delivery of high-quality care while ensuring patient safety. However, this hasn’t been the experience of many physicians... Read More »
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Valve: Windows 8 Is A 'Catastrophe' For PCs
Microsoft's next-generation operating system has taken a beating from the press, analysts, and developers alike over the past year. Read More »
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Vampire Data And 3 Other Cyber Security Threats For 2013
Kroll Advisory Solutions has released its 2013 Cyber Security Forecast, spotlighting some of the pressing and perhaps unexpected privacy and security issues healthcare and other organizations may be grappling with in the coming year. Read More »
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Vanderbilt Open Sources Hardware and Software for Medical Capsule Robots
Researchers around the globe who want to customize medical capsule robots won’t have to start from scratch – a team from Vanderbilt University School of Engineering did the preliminary work for them and is ready to share. Through a website and a paper revealed at a pair of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) conferences, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Pietro Valdastri, Associate Professor of Computer Engineering Akos Ledeczi and their team made the capsule hardware and software open-source.
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Vanderbilt Opens mHealth App Contest
Vanderbilt University officials announced Wednesday the kick-off of a new mobile health app challenge intended to transform patient clinical summaries into comprehensible, user-friendly health data. The contest is open to software developers worldwide and promises $20,000 in prize money for the best of the best. Read More »
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Vanishing Practices & The Impact On Health IT
[Unlike] the managed care movement of the ’90s, the current trend of hospital/physician acquisition is much more profound and is being influenced by multiple drivers instead of just one. We need take notice of this trend this time around because it has the potential to not only impact health IT, but forever change the landscape of healthcare delivery in the United States.
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VanRoekel Called To Testify On Wasteful IT Spending
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has called a hearing to discuss “the wasteful and dysfunctional fashion in which the federal government acquires information technology systems and services.” Read More »
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VanRoekel Gives Update On Federal Government Digital Efforts
U.S. Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel provided a three-month anniversary update on deliverables related to the federal Digital Government Strategy, emphasizing the efforts made are critical in providing “the highest value of services” for the American people. Read More »
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VanRoekel On Infosec And Sequestration
With Congress facing $1.2 trillion in budget cuts, Federal Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel says funding for cybersecurity initiatives will likely be affected. But with smart planning, government information technology should not be placed at risk. Read More »
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VanRoekel Tells Senate Of Need To Shift IT Investment
Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel testified before a Senate subcommittee today on his office's progress in reforming federal IT spending and on the need to shift investment toward more 21st century solutions. Read More »
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VanRoekel Will Stay On At The White House
Federal Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel confirmed via Twitter Friday that he plans to stay in the White House during President Obama’s second term. Read More »
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