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Cartilage Made Easy With Novel Hybrid Printer
The printing of 3D tissue has taken a major step forward with the creation of a novel hybrid printer that simplifies the process of creating implantable cartilage. Read More »
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Cash-Only Doctors Abandon The Insurance System
Fed up with declining payments and rising red tape, a small but growing number of doctors is opting out of the insurance system completely. They're expecting patients to pony up with cash. Read More »
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Category C Liberalism
Like Ed and Kevin Drum I found Mike Konczal’s post about how the problems with healthcare.gov might reflect competing visions of liberalism interesting and wanted to expand on it. Read More »
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CDC Threat Report: Yes, Agricultural Antibiotics Play A Role In Drug Resistance
The grave assessment on the advance of drug resistance, released Monday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, contained some important observations about the relationship between antibiotic use in agriculture and resistant infections in humans. [...] Read More »
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CDC Threat Report: ‘We Will Soon Be In A Post-Antibiotic Era’
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has just published a first-of-its-kind assessment of the threat the country faces from antibiotic-resistant organisms, ranking them by the number of illnesses and deaths they cause each year and outlining urgent steps that need to be taken to roll back the trend. Read More »
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CDC Urges Increased Prevention, Surveillance Of Superbugs
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is asking hospitals and public health agencies to increase their efforts to track, isolate and hopefully slow the growth of an emerging variety of highly antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Read More »
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CDC: Action Needed Now To Halt Spread Of Deadly Bacteria
Data show more inpatients suffering infections from bacteria resistant to all or nearly all antibiotics Read More »
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CDC: Foodborne Illness In The U.S. Not Getting Better
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today released their annual survey of foodborne illnesses in the United States, and the news is, well, not great. In the words of the press announcement they sent out to announce the data release: “limited progress.” Read More »
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Cell Counter; NHS+HackDay; OpenSource+OpenEHR
Last weekend the NHS HackDay movement came to Liverpool, where a group of “Geeks who love the NHS” came together for the second event of its type. Read More »
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Cerner at Odds with Hospital over Installation of System
Cerner Corp. and a small Kansas hospital have become embroiled in a dispute over failed attempts to install an electronic medical records system. Read More »
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Cerner CEO Makes An Emotional Plea For Interoperability Among Health Care Technology Providers
...A rapt audience of about 11,000 Tuesday morning at the annual Cerner Health Conference heard Patterson emotionally invoke personal experience to illustrate his passion for what his company does. The North Kansas City-based company is an industry leader in digitizing patient health records and working with other providers to make that information “interoperable” across health care information technology providers...
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Cerner Supports Blue Button + To Engage Individuals For Better Health
As health care in the United States continues to digitize, we’re seeing a shift in the way people perceive their role in their own health and care. [...] Read More »
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Cerner, McKesson Lead Alliance To Let Doctors Share Data
Cerner Corp. (CERN) and four rival providers of electronic medical records said they will ease barriers preventing doctors and hospitals from sharing data, a potential breakthrough in the effort to get U.S. physicians to better coordinate patient care. Read More »
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Cerner, McKesson, Allscripts, Athenahealth, Greenway And RelayHealth Announce Ground Breaking Alliance To Enable Integrated Health Care
Top health care information technology (HIT) companies Cerner, McKesson, Allscripts, athenahealth, Greenway Medical Technologies® and RelayHealth announced today the launch of the CommonWell Health Alliance™, planned to be an independent not-for-profit organization that will support universal, trusted access to health care data through seamless interoperability. Read More »
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CFOs: Don't Read This If You Like High, Ever-Growing Health Insurance Premiums
While the federal health reform gets a lot of media attention, in many ways the real action is in the “DIY Health Reform” movement driven by non-partisan entrepreneurs. For example, I outlined this prior to the State of the Union earlier this year – Mr. President: The Deficit Problem was Solved Last Week but for the Preservatives Read More »
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