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Summaries of open source, health care, or health IT news and information from various sources on the web selected by Open Health News (OHNews) staff. Links are provided to the original news or information source, e.g. news article, web site, journal,blog, video, etc.

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WellTrackONE and Zoeticx Demonstrate Interoperability by Integrating Good Samaritan’s EHR System with Indiana HIE

The long awaited road to true healthcare IT system interoperability is being implemented at Good Samaritan in Indiana, enabling the 232-bed community health-care facility to better deliver on its commitment to delivering exceptional patient care.  The system will also enable the hospital to substantially increase their practice’s revenue while containing healthcare system integration costs....The integration is being made possible with Zoeticx’s Patient-Clarity interoperability platform which will integrate WellTrackONE’s Annual Wellness Visit (AWV) patient reports with Indiana’s Health Information Exchange (IHIE) and the hospital’s Allscripts EHR.

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WellTrackONE and Zoeticx Team Up to Bring Interoperability to Medical Facilities Offering CMS Annual Wellness Visits

Press Release | Zoeticx, WellTrackONE | November 10, 2015

Zoeticx, Inc. and WellTrackONE Corp. have forged an agreement to bring long awaited interoperability to medical facilities’ electronic health record (EHR) systems. The collaboration will enable Zoeticx’s Patient-Clarity platform software to integrate WellTracksONES’s Annual Wellness Visit (AWV) patient reports and associated medical data to any EHR, Health Information Exchange (HIE) or other data repository. The deal will allow providers to easily access and manage WellTrackONE’s AWV reports without using any cumbersome manual processes.

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West Nile Virus Spreads Faster

Elizabeth Weise | USA Today | August 14, 2012

West Nile virus is spreading faster than it has in years, and the pace of the mosquito-borne disease is getting worse, health officials report. Read More »

West Virginia Medical Practice Partners With ZH Healthcare To Meet HHS Deadlines For Electronic Medical Records

Press Release | ZH Healthcare | June 4, 2013

The Khoury Surgical Group achieves deadlines mandated by HHS and prepares for meeting Stage 2 Meaningful use with ZH Healthcare. Read More »

What A Concept: VA Pitches Its Electronic Health Records System To Defense

Bob Brewin | Nextgov | February 27, 2013

The Defense Department went shopping for a new electronic health record system on Feb. 8, just two days after plans to develop a $4 billion integrated electronic health record with the Veterans Affairs Department went south. Read More »

What A Destructive Wall Street Owes Young Americans

Ralph Nader | Huffington Post | March 14, 2014

Wall Street's big banks and their financial networks that collapsed the U.S. economy in 2008-2009 were saved with huge bailouts by the taxpayers, but these Wall Street gamblers are still paid huge money, and are again creeping toward reckless misbehavior. Their corporate crime wave strip-mined the economy for young workers, threw them on the unemployment rolls and helped make possible a low-wage economy that is draining away their ability to afford basic housing, goods and services. 

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What A Real Open EHR API Should Accomplish

John Lynn | EMR & HIPAA | June 17, 2013

There’s been a lot of talk in the EHR world about APIs and most of the time they talk about it as an open API. The problem is that there’s been a lot of talk about EHR APIs and not a lot of action... Read More »

What Activities Need To Come After An EHR Implementation?

Jerrilyn Cowper | EHR Intelligence | November 19, 2013

Do you long for the day when all of your hard work is put into use, the long awaited go-live is over and your workload will finally slow down? If you have never been through the full lifecycle of an implementation, you may not realize that going live is only the beginning. In fact, many times post go-live work is more than the implementation effort. Read More »

What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success

Anu Partanen | The Atlantic | December 29, 2011

The Scandinavian country is an education superpower because it values equality more than excellence. Read More »

What Clinical Trial Results? Now You Can See Who Isn’t Sharing Their Findings

Ed Silverman | STAT | November 3, 2016

The results for nearly half of all clinical trials conducted by big drug makers during the last decade have not been published, and one company — Ranbaxy Laboratories — has not published findings for any of the nearly three dozen trials conducted in the past 10 years, according to a new online tool. The tool was launched Thursday by AllTrials, a consortium of researchers and medical journals that has been pushing the pharmaceutical industry to do a better job of disclosing clinical trial data...

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What Consolidation Means For EHR, Health IT Interoperability

Gary Palgon | EHR Intelligence | December 5, 2013

The transformation of the healthcare industry is not unlike a puzzle — with pieces constantly moved until the right “fit” is found. A recent report shows a slight decline in the acquisition of hospitals by each other but a steady increase in health system acquisition of services such as home care, medical group, and rehab services. [...] Read More »

What Developers Can Learn From Healthcare.gov

James Turner | O'Reily Programming | October 4, 2013

The first highly visible component of the Affordable Health Care Act launched this week, in the form of the healthcare.gov site. Theoretically, it allows citizens, who live in any of the states that have chosen not to implement their own portal, to get quotes and sign up for coverage. Read More »

What do mHealth, eHealth and Behavioral Science Mean for the Future of Healthcare?

Alex Howard | O'Reilly Radar | May 21, 2012

We're living through one of the most dynamic periods in healthcare in our collective history...This month, I had the opportunity to discuss some of these trends with Dr. Audie Atienza (@AudieAtienza), a researcher who focuses on behavioral science and healthcare.

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What Do The Internet And Electronic Health Records Have In Common?

Zina Moukheiber | Forbes | January 26, 2011

In his State of the Union speech, President Obama cited computer chips and the Internet as examples of technologies that were originally funded by the government, and later unleashed new industries.  Read More »

What Does It Really Matter If Companies Are Tracking Us Online?

Rebecca J. Rosen | The Atlantic | August 16, 2013

A scholar argues that the core issue is protecting consumers from corporations that are developing ever more sophisticated techniques for getting people to part with their money. Read More »