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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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Auto Repairs Are Another Area Where The Cheap Computing Mindest Can $ave You Big Buck$

Robin "Roblimo" Miller | IT Knowledge Exchange | April 21, 2013

[Before] my wife went to the dealer, I warned her: “No matter what additional parts or services they try to sell you, don’t buy. I’ll handle them or call Jesse — and save a bunch of money.” And it was a good thing I gave my wife that warning, because here’s the list of things the dealer shop people said our 2003 Hyundai Elantra needed... Read More »

Automated Blue Button, Patient Engagement Are Health Camp Hot Topics

Don Fluckinger | SearchHealthIT | September 24, 2012

At HealthCamp Boston, patients and patient advocates took over the health information discussion, reciting "e-Patient Dave" deBronkart's 3-year-old mantra: "Gimme my damn data." Read More »

Autosport Labs Launches Race Capture Pro On Indiegogo - Open Source Race Car Data And Telemetry System

Press Release | Autosport Labs | November 21, 2012

Autosport Labs, provider of open source motorsports products today announced the launch of Race Capture Pro, a professional quality data acquisition, control and telemetry system. Race Capture Pro makes it possible to have professional-grade customizable race car data and telemetry for a breakthrough price. Read More »

Avanir Pharmaceuticals Announces Research Collaboration With Department Of Veterans Affairs For Screening Pseudobulbar Affect (PBA) Symptoms In Veterans With Traumatic Brain Injury

Press Release | Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | March 6, 2013

Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:AVNR) in collaboration with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and United BioSource Corporation (UBC) today announced a pilot study to screen for pseudobulbar affect (PBA) symptoms in approximately 1,000 veterans with traumatic brain injury (TBI) . Read More »

Avanir Pharmaceuticals Presents Data From A Benchmark Study Of PBA Symptoms In Veterans With Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Press Release | Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | March 19, 2014

Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVNR) today announced the presentation of results from a first-of-its-kind study of pseudobulbar affect (PBA) symptoms in veterans with mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) conducted in collaboration with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Evidera. Read More »

Avoid EHR 'Backlash' With Better Implementation Processes

Marla Durben Hirsch | FierceEMR | July 3, 2013

Electronic health record "backlash"--the opposition to EHR adoption and Meaningful Use by clinicians and other staff--can be avoided by better planning and implementation, according to a recently published article in EHR Intelligence. Read More »

Avoidable Care Conference Foments Revolution

Stephanie Bouchard | Healthcare Finance News | June 13, 2012

The Avoiding Avoidable Care Conference wasn’t so much about the epidemic of unnecessary medical care or the costs of unnecessary care. It was a rallying cry to the medical community, and to doctors in particular, to reclaim the profession of medicine from the country’s market-dominated healthcare system.

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Avoiding EHR Backlash With Tips From Healthcare CIOs

Kyle Murphy | EHR Intelligence | June 27, 2013

[...A] closer look at these instances of EHR backlash generally reveals one or more failures on the part of healthcare organizations or providers to approach the task of adopting various EHR systems and functionalities. Read More »

Award Winners Of CSIR-OSDD-VP Short Film Competition-2013

Anshu Bhardwaj | Open Source Drug Discovery | January 18, 2013

The final screening of the 23 shortlisted videos of CSIR-OSDD-VP Short Film Competition-2013 on “Need of New Drugs for TB” was successfully conducted by a national jury headed by veteran actor / director Shri Amol Palekar in Kolkata during 06-07 January 2013. Read More »

Axial Aims To Give Power To The Patients

John Andrews | Healthcare IT News | January 21, 2014

There have been many ideas proposed as solutions for reducing costly hospital readmissions, but one concept that hasn’t gotten much attention over the years is patient empowerment – the practice of letting people take control of their healthcare. Read More »

Axial Exchange And Becker’s Hospital Review Partner To Launch The First-Ever National Patient Engagement Index (PEI)

Press Release | Becker's Hospital Review, Axial Exchange | February 25, 2014

Axial Exchange, Inc., a pioneer in using mobile applications to deepen the patient’s role in improving outcomes, today announced that it has partnered with Becker’s Hospital Review, a leading healthcare trade publication, to conduct the first National Patient Engagement Index (PEI) in 2014. Read More »

Axial Exchange Announces Design Enhancements To App

Matt Mattox | Axial Exchange | July 25, 2013

New Design Elements Put Individual Health Management Features Up Front; Simplifies UI and Consolidates Health System Resources Read More »

Axial Exchange Debuts Patient Engagement Index (PEI), Ranking Hospitals Based On Patients’ Participation In Their Own Care

Press Release | Axial Exchange, Inc. | April 4, 2013

Axial Exchange Inc. today debuted the Patient Engagement Index (PEI), a groundbreaking ranking of US hospitals based on the perspective of patients and how deeply each hospital’s patient communities are engaged in their care. Read More »

Axial Exchange Raises $5M, Adds Enhancements To Hospital App Platform

Aditi Pai | MobiHealthNews | July 26, 2013

Raleigh, North Carolina-based Axial Exchange, a mobile app developer, raised just under $5 million from undisclosed investors, according to an SEC filing. Axial Exchange is backed by a syndicate of venture capital firms, led by Canaan Partners. Read More »

Axial Exchange Ranks Florida Hospitals With New Patient Engagement Index

Mike Miliard | Healthcare IT News | April 5, 2013

Axial Exchange, a developer of patient engagement technologies, unveiled this week its Patient Engagement Index, which ranks U.S. hospitals based on how involved their patient communities are with their own care. Read More »