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49 Community Health Centers Win Grants To Boost HIT Infrastructure

Bernie Monegain | Government Health IT | January 21, 2013

Neighborhood Health Plan (NHP) and Partners HealthCare will award a total of $4.25 million in a first round of grants through the Partnership for Community Health to all 49 community health centers (CHCs) that are members of the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers. Read More »

5 Benefits Of Open Source Technology For MU

Mark Byers | Executive Insight | October 14, 2013

Founded on transparency and open standards, OS technology is a largely underexplored solution to meet MU criteria Read More »

5 Government Health Challenges To Watch

Anthony Brino | Government Health IT | June 25, 2013

The Obama Administration brought a new public policy strategy to the federal government in 2009: challenges, with prize money for private organizations that design solutions (typically software or apps) for policy problems. Read More »

5 Nagging Questions About Meaningful Use Stage 2

Jeff Rowe | Government Health IT | August 12, 2013

New technology, we generally assume, is supposed to make us more comfortable by instituting convenience into our lives. Yet new technology that comes with deadlines attached can have exactly the opposite effect. Read More »

5 Not-So-Merry Tales Of Healthcare Fraud Dark Side

Rick Kam and Christine Arevalo | Government Health IT | December 20, 2013

It’s December, the time of holiday cheer, but for victims of healthcare fraud and medical identity theft, the season is not a happy one. The news is full of dishonest people making patients sicker and healthcare costlier. Read More »

5 Problematic HIT Projects Costing The Government Billions

Dan Bowman | FierceHealthIT | July 26, 2013

Cost overruns and missed deadlines for several federal agency health technology projects are costing the government "billions of dollars," according to a Government Accountability Office report focusing on the inefficiency of agency IT initiatives published Thursday. Read More »

5 Questions With Stephen Mickelsen, Mobile Application Architect For Humetrix iBlueButton

Chad Johnson | HL7Standards.com | September 9, 2013

[...] While not often considered a hot topic at the C-suite level, the government has taken some very interesting steps to encourage patients to become willing participants in their care, be it through ACO preventative care measures or healthcare standards. Read More »

5 Reasons Hospitals Need a Mobile App

Matt Mattox | Axial Exchange | July 25, 2012

If patient engagement is the holy grail of healthcare and if hospital revenue will increasingly hinge on the ability to connect with patients, then why are so many hospitals missing out on one of the most effective means of engaging patients -- a branded mobile application? Read More »

5 Reasons Mobile Is the Future of Sustainable Development

Zoe Fox | Mashable | June 18, 2012

Social media and technology hold a unique position when it comes to shaping sustainable solutions for the future or our planet. At the core of many of these possibilities for change are mobile phones. Read More »

5 Strategies For Implementing Data Analytics In Hospitals

Sabrina Rodak | Becker's Hospital Review | October 24, 2011

Since the advent of the Internet, people have been able to access a significant amount of information with the click of a computer mouse. As technology becomes more ingrained in healthcare delivery, providers are facing the quandary of how to glean useful information from the enormous amount of data available through electronic health records, computerized provider order entry and other databases. Read More »

5 Trends That Will Drive Health Care IT In 2014

Brian T. Horowitz | CruxialCIO | December 19, 2013

In 2014, analytics will play a bigger role in health care, while electronic health records (EHRs) will take a backseat to other types of technology such as mobility, Big Data and cloud computing, research firm IDC predicts. Read More »

5 Trends Will Reshape Health IT In 2013

Paul Cerrato | InformationWeek | August 27, 2012

Ultimately the goal of all healthcare--IT included--is to put itself out of business. That may sound a bit strange but medicine's primary objective is to cure disease, or prevent it from occurring in the first place. And as the profession gets better at these two tasks, the public should become increasingly self-sufficient and have less and less need for its services. Read More »

5 Ways IT Helps Make Sense Of Costs

Jeff Rowe | Healthcare IT News | July 9, 2013

'It’s one thing to show a mountain of data. But if that mountain isn’t making sense to the consumer it’s of no use.' Read More »

5 Ways Mobile Tech Can Improve Your Health

Edna Boone | Mashable | June 1, 2012

[People] increasingly access healthcare services via mobile, or “mHealth.” The result: Mobile is having a transformative effect on the way physicians and nurses care for patients. It’s also impacting how consumers manage their own health and well-being. Read More »

5 Ways That Our Healthcare System Is Broken Infographic

Linda Ringquist | BHM Healthcare Solutions | May 1, 2013

How is our healthcare system doing? What changes need to be made? Is the Affordable Care Act the answer? What suggestions do you have to help fix our healthcare system? What are you doing to help reduce healthcare costs? How are you offsetting Medicare cutbacks? Read More »