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Damages From Medicaid Politics Won't Stop At Hospitals

John Commins | HealthLeaders Media | July 3, 2013

Try to imagine the ripple effect of punching a $4 billion hole in the economy of a state whose lawmakers refuse federal Medicaid subsidies. It's not just hospital jobs that will disappear. Ancillary support jobs in healthcare and other businesses will wither, too. Read More »

Dangers In Electronic Medical Documentation!

Chris Brown | Medicaltranscriptionsservice.com. | March 4, 2014

Slip-shoddy documentation can lead to disastrous consequences. And more often than not it is hapless patients who pay the price for it. The shocking news of patients dying due to documentation errors, is hitting the headlines more frequently. Though it is easy to lay the blame squarely on EHRs identifying the flaws in the documentation process is even more important. Read More »

Data Liquidity Tackles Cancer And Diabetes: An Epic Battle For Global Health

Marcia Kean and Kenneth Buetow | O'Reilly Strata RX Conference | June 26, 2013

The Data Liquidity Coalition is a collaboration comprised of a wide spectrum of stakeholders in the biomedical community – including providers, payers, patients, researchers and others—who are deeply committed to actualizing a common vision of data liquidity to achieve personalized medicine and the rapid learning healthcare system. Read More »

Data Network Foundation Laid For Effectiveness Research

Anthony Brino | Government Health IT | December 18, 2013

The Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute is paving a large part of its foundation with a new round of $191 million in grants for comparative effectiveness and clinical data research networks. Read More »

Day 1 @ TEDMED 2013, Washington D.C.

Alessandro Demaio | PLOS Blogs | April 17, 2013

Well TEDMED is off and running and what a sensational start! More than a thousand innovators and thinkers from the health space worldwide have descended on the JFK Centre in Washington DC to make incredible things happen. Read More »

Dear New York Times: Next Time, Dig Deeper Into The EHR Vendor Industry

Marla Durben Hirsch | FierceEMR | February 26, 2013

There's been quite an outpouring of sentiment about last week's New York Times article "A Digital Shift on Health Data Swells Profits in an Industry", most of it negative. Many of the 525 comments that the article received blasted electronic health record systems themselves... Read More »

Defense And VA To Congress On Health Records: It's The Data, Not The Software

Bob Brewin | Nextgov | July 10, 2013

Top officials at the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments said Wednesday they will create a system to exchange standard clinical health data, which will allow the departments to develop a single, shared electronic health record without the need to build a joint system from scratch. Read More »

Defense Secretary Considers Commercial EHR System

Joseph Conn | Modern Healthcare | May 23, 2013

The Defense Department is back in the market for an electronic health-record system for its sprawling healthcare empire, according to a memorandum from Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. Read More »

Definitive Link Confirms Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Transmits From Livestock To Humans

Press Release | Congresswoman Louise M. Slaughter | March 28, 2013

Today, Congresswoman Louise Slaughter (NY-25), the only microbiologist in Congress, reacted to a new study that conclusively identified transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) from livestock to humans. Currently, MRSA kills more Americans each year than HIV/AIDS. Read More »

Dell Works With Red Hat, Intel And VMware To Launch Center Of Excellence For Hospitals Using Epic EHR Software

Press Release | Dell, Red Hat, VMware | March 4, 2013

Dell has joined forces with Red Hat, Intel and VMware to open a dedicated center where hospitals can test and deploy a new option for running Epic Systems’ electronic health records (EHR) software on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Read More »

Dell, Intel, Red Hat, VMware Team On Linux For Health Care

D.H. Kass | The Var Guy | March 5, 2013

Dell (NASDAQ: DELL), Intel, (NASDAQ: INTC), Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) and VMware (NYSE: VMW) have teamed up to open a dedicated facility for hospitals to test and deploy new healthcare software running on x86 servers using Red Hat’s Enterprise Linux. Read More »

Deloitte Continues Its Support Of TranSMART Foundation As Gold-Level Sponsor And Will Join Board Of Directors

Press Release | tranSMART, Deloitte | February 5, 2014

Deloitte has announced today the gold-level sponsorship of the tranSMART Foundation.  As a part of Deloitte's sponsorship, Brett Davis, principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP, will join the Foundation's board of directors. Read More »

Deloitte Invests $150M In Healthcare Analytics

Bernie Monegain | Government Health IT | February 21, 2014

Deloitte officials announced this week the launch of ConvergeHEALTH, a new business unit to give the work of transformation momentum and help healthcare organizations answer the 'hard questions.' Read More »

Demanding Utility From Health Information Technology

Ross Koppel | Annals of Internal Medicine | June 4, 2013

In this issue, DesRoches and colleagues examined physician use of EHR systems to manage their patient populations and their expectations of the influence of EHRs on health care outcomes and costs... Read More »

Democratizing Data, and Other Notes from the Open Source Convention

Andy Oram | O'Reilly Radar | July 25, 2012

There has been enormous talk over the past few years of open data and what it can do for society, but proponents have largely come to admit: data is not democratizing in itself. This topic is hotly debated, and a nice summary of the viewpoints is available in this PDF containing articles by noted experts. Read More »