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Accountable Care Is Healthcare’s New OS
The 1st year report card on Pioneer Accountable Care Organizations is out. Depending on who you talk to, the story changes dramatically. As Gregg Masters pointed out, reactions to the reports on the Pioneer ACOs would either have you believe that ACOs “succeeded” or that “Obamacare is a failure.” Read More »
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Accountable Care: IT Gets Us Only Halfway There
It's hard to imagine a successful accountable care organization (ACO) that doesn't rely heavily on IT...But the very foundation upon which ACOs are built could be shaky, making software tools only so effective. Let me explain. Read More »
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Acuo Technologies Selected In DoD Award To Deliver Vendor Neutral Archive
Acuo Technologies...announced today that the Defense Logistics Agency of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has selected the Acuo Universal Clinical Platform (UCP) as a new vendor neutral archive (VNA) solution for enterprise patient imaging logistics. Read More »
ADA: VA's MOVE Helps Block Diabetes
CHICAGO -- A weight-loss program that can be implemented over a large healthcare system may help prevent development of type 2 diabetes, researchers reported here. Read More »
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Adoption Of Electronic Health Records Grows Rapidly, But Fewer Than Half Of US Hospitals Had At Least A Basic System In 2012
The US health care system is in the midst of an enormous change in the way health care providers and hospitals document, monitor, and share information about health and care delivery. Part of this transition involves a wholesale, but currently uneven, shift from paper-based records to electronic health record (EHR) systems. [...] Read More »
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Advancing Antimalarial Drug Research Through Open Source Initiatives
Open research can lead to new drugs tackling diseases that afflict the world's poor. But first, more scientists need to buy into contributing to something bigger than their careers Read More »
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Advancing User Experience Research To Facilitate And Enable Patient Centered Research: Current State And Future Directions
Human beings possess well-documented strengths in pattern recognition and higher-order reasoning. This allows individuals to interpret complex data sets in ways that remain difficult to reproduce using computers. [...] Read More »
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Advice To The Next National Coordinator
Over the next few months, Jacob Reider will serve as the interim National Coordinator for Healthcare IT while the search continues for Farzad Mostashari's permanent replacement. Read More »
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AEGIS Launches The OSEHRA Interoperability Work Group (IWG) And Contributes Developers Integration Lab (DIL) Source Code
AEGIS will chair the work group and submit their DIL source code to the OSEHRA open source repository. Read More »
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Affinity Nurses Seek Delay On Electronic Records
Affinity Medical Center registered nurses are asking hospital officials to delay a new electronic health record system set to begin this weekend. Read More »
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Affinity RNs Call For Halt To Flawed Electronic Medical Records System Scheduled To Go Live Friday
Affinity Medical Center RNs in Massillon, Ohio are calling on hospital officials to delay the planned June 21 implementation of the Cerner electronic medical records (EMR) system, until the hospital bargains with the nurses and proceeds in a safe manner. The direct-care RNs, represented by the National Nurses Organizing Committee (NNOC) in Ohio, an affiliate of National Nurses United (NNU), say that nurses, the primary users of the complex system, have had insufficient training, which will put patients at risk. Read More »
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Affordable Care Act (ACA) Web Site: Too Much Help Will Slow The Project
What’s the problem with ObamaCare? Recent technical problems call that question to mind, but the answer is not what you may be thinking. Read More »
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Africa Innovations: 15 Ideas Helping To Transform A Continent
A mobile phone database for dairy farmers and a strain of sweet potato that can help fight child blindness. These are just two of the imaginative new ideas that are tackling Africa's old problems Read More »
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Africa: The Pros And Cons Of Social Media In Global Health
I was invited to moderate a panel at the World Health Summit in Berlin this week. [...]Within the first three hours of the summit, two other sessions had acknowledged that global health governance needed a shake-up and should move away from top-down, supply-driven models. Could social media, with their emphasis on dialogue and inherent transparency, be the solution? Read More »
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After A 'Bridge' Year For Meaningful Use, 2014 Could Be Painful For Providers
The electronic health record world covered a lot of ground in 2013, some of it positive, some of it not. Here's our annual look at the top stories that dominated the headlines in FierceEMR in 2013--and a few that we might expect to see in 2014. Read More »
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