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Big Data in Healthcare’s True Promise: Better Individualized Care
Frank X. Speidel, MD shares his insights on how big data in healthcare can be harnessed for better, faster and more individualized patient care. Read More »
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Big Data Is Coming, But When Will It Be Really Useful?
One of the many promises of EHRs is that, in fairly short order, they’re going to make an ever-growing amount of data available in the quest for better population health management. Read More »
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Big Data's Big Potential In Health Care
Using “big data” to analyze information gathered by health IT is the key to improving medical outcomes, as well as making health care more efficient and cost-effective, say the authors of an article published online recently by the American Health Information Management Association. Read More »
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Big Opportunities, Still, For IT Vendors
The healthcare market, especially health IT, remains "highly fragmented," with lots of openings for entrepreneurs who can solve providers' "pain points," according to the latest trend report from Berkery Noyes. Read More »
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Big Sugar's Sweet Little Lies
How the industry kept scientists from asking: Does sugar kill? Read More »
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Bipartisan Policy Center's Health Innovation Initiative: Health IT Industry Officials Lying To Regulators With Impunity?
A statement that health IT has a "lower risk profile" compared to other regulated healthcare sectors such as devices or drugs, in order to seek continued and extraordinary regulatory accommodations, is remarkable. It is either reckless regarding something that the statement's makers should know, or should have made it their business to know - or a deliberate prevarication with forethought.
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Bloated Healthcare Costs Raise EHR Concerns
By all accounts, money is being made in the healthcare industry off of EHR adoption. But who’s really saving cash and benefiting from these systems? Read More »
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Blue Button Codeathon: Unlocking Data And Empowering Patients
Anyone who has struggled to remember the name of their medication or the date of their child’s vaccination, while juggling multiple doctor appointments for family members, knows firsthand how important it is that patients have access to their health information. We think our Blue Button initiative can help. Read More »
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Blue Button Expands Access To Include CCDs, OpenNotes
The Department of Veterans Affairs [...] has just announced the addition of several new features to the patient portal [Blue Button]. In addition to overhauling its user interface and expanding its technical development, the VA is giving its patients access to continuity of care documents (CCD), as well as integrating an OpenNotes feature, which allows patients to view physician documentation. Read More »
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Blue Button For America
In August 2010, President Obama announced the Blue Button in a speech to the national convention of Disabled American Veterans. In his remarks, he said that “for the first time ever Veterans will be able to go to the VA website, click a simple Blue Button, and download or print your personal health records so you have that when you need them and can share that with your doctors outside of the VA.” Read More »
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Blue Button Is Powerful Tool For Patients
The Blue Button program is more than just a VA initiative – it is a new way of thinking, writes a blogger dedicated to sharing the patient story. Read More »
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Blue Button Plus, Other Identifiers Can Reverse 'Information Asymmetry'
Providing patients with access to their own information and reasserting the primacy of the physician-patient relationship can reverse the "information asymmetry" that favors big healthcare corporations at the expense of patients and individual physicians, according to a post at The Health Care Blog. Read More »
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Blue Button Technology Highlighted At Consumer Health IT Summit
The Blue Button program for sharing patient data was a major focus of the Consumer Health IT Summit on Monday, Modern Healthcare reports Read More »
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BodyTel Joins Continua Health Alliance
Telehealth solution provider BodyTel Europe GmbH has become a member of the “Continua Health Alliance”. Among other things, the industry organization promotes its own standard for the transmission of medical data based on the Bluetooth health device profile (HDP). BodyTel will initially adapt its blood glucose meter GlucoTel to comply with the consortium’s standards. As a result, the device will be interoperable with other Continua-certified products. Read More »
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Boehner Says US Veterans' Claims System Is Broken
U.S. House Speaker John Boehner said the system for handling veterans' disability claims is broken and he wants the head of the Department of Veterans Affairs to explain what is being done to fix it. Read More »
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