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Could Mobile Health Become Addictive?
The hype over mobile health is deafening on most days and downright annoying on some. So it is with some reluctance that I admit that mobile has the potential to be a game-changer in health. I’ve professed enthusiasm before, but that was largely around the use of wireless sensors to measure physiologic signals and SMS text as a way to deliver messages to patients and consumers... Read More »
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Count Down To Health Datapalooza IV
The Health Data Initiative (HDI) was launched in 2010 by the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) which has now grown into the Health Data Consortium... Read More »
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Court Upholds Rx Transparency Law
Advocates for healthcare transparency scored a small win in California, where the state Supreme Court upheld a law requiring pharmacy benefit managers to disclose their pricing. Read More »
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Coverage Expansion Fail: Less Than One-Third Of Obamacare Exchange Enrollees Were Previously Uninsured
At the end of the day, for all of the rhetoric and promises about what Obamacare would achieve, the health law’s most ardent supporters have stuck to their guns because of one thing: coverage expansion. But new data suggests that Obamacare may fail even to achieve this goal. Instead of expanding coverage to those without it, Obamacare is replacing the pre-existing market for private insurance. [...] Read More »
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Craig Newmark, Peter Levin Join Lineup Of Top Innovators Slated To Address Federal Technology Leaders At Nextgov Prime
Nextgov Prime will convene 500+ senior federal technology leaders in Washington, D.C. on October 15th-16th to explore the future of technology and government. Read More »
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CredibleMeds® Announces Open-Source Drug Safety Resource
QTdrugs List and Clinical Decision Support System Identifies Patients at Risk for Sudden Death; Adverse Drug Event Causality Analysis (ADECA™) Technology Generates QTdrugs List to Save Lives Read More »
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Crowd-Sourcing A Cure For Cancer Through The Internet
It is only natural that someone with a cancer diagnosis would turn to the web for help, even though the results are likely to terrify and reassure in equal measure. But on getting his diagnosis, Italian robotic engineer and open-source artist Salvatore Iaconesi took things one step further. Read More »
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Crowdfunding For Innovation And Sustainability
Kickstarter has just hit the UK, but there are now a host of crowdfunding startups that focus on business creation and innovation Read More »
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Crowdfunding Healthcare Innovation: Q & A With Alex Fair, CEO Of MedStartr
In this ICH Blog post, we spotlight MedStartr, a new health-related crowdfunding platform. Crowdfunding for health-related projects is an innovative idea that enables the consumer to decide what health information technology applications or devices are important and ready to come on the market. Read More »
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Crowdfunding Healthcare Startups – Medstartr And Indiegogo
I have been seeing more and more activity around the idea of using the crowds to fund various healthcare IT startup companies. This shouldn’t be that surprising to any of us given the success of websites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo... Read More »
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Crowdfunding In Healthcare Isn’t Easy – Health Tech Hatch Turns to Indiegogo
Health Tech Hatch, a site launched last fall as a crowdfunding site specifically for health startups, is joining forces with one of the biggest crowdfunding platforms on the web, Indiegogo. Read More »
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CSSi Awarded VA T4 Task Order On Health IT
Federal contractor CSSi, has been awarded a prime contract for Flow Improvement Initiative Support Services as part of the Veterans Affairs Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology (T4) Contract Vehicle. [...] Read More »
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Cybersecurity Effort Launched To Strengthen Software Infrastructure
Scientists at the Morgridge Institute for Research, Indiana University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Wisconsin–Madison have received a $23.6 million grant..to address threats arising from the development process of software used in technology ranging from the national power grid to medical devices. Read More »
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Cytta Connect™ Technology Receives Resounding Response And Secures Illustrious Advisor
Cytta Corp. (OTCQB: CYCA), creator of the CyttaConnect™ Open Source mobile medical monitoring technology, announces that it is currently discussing multiple implementations of its proprietary Cytta Connect™ system into several different US medical markets. Read More »
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D.C. Report: Mostashari Says, 'Now Is Not the Right Time' For NwHIN Governance
During the 40th meeting of the Health IT Policy Committee held in Washington this week, members were given an overview of Meaningful Use Stage 2 by officials from CMS and ONC. And in the waning hours of the day-long meeting, Dr. Farzad Mostashari revealed that ONC has decided to put plans for further regulation of the Nationwide Health Information Exchange (NwHIN) on hold. Read More »
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