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Progress In Health Care Is Still 'Excruciatingly Slow' Says Harvard Expert
I had the opportunity to interview one of the nation’s foremost experts on pay-for-performance and health care quality measurement, Harvard professor Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH. His entertaining and insightful blog “An Ounce of Evidence“ tops my bookmarks. He’s known in the business community for his forceful candor on the need for much more transparency and better payment systems in health care. [...] Read More »
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Project Daniel and the World’s First 3D-Printing Prosthetics Lab
Last week, the 2014 International CES conference in Las Vegas unveiled a startling new project that has the health technology world buzzing with excitement. [...] Equipped with 3D printers and Ultrabooks, [Not Impossible LLC] has been supplying prosthetic arms and hands for amputees in the Nuba Mountains, a war-ridden area within South Sudan. Read More »
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Pronoia Health And AEGIS.net, Inc. Launch Open Library Of Health Information Exchange (OLHIE)
Pronoia Health and AEGIS.net(AEGIS) are proud to announce the recent launch of the Open Library of Health Information Exchange (OLHIE). OLHIE is an online ecosystem designed to accelerate connections to Health Information Exchanges (HIE) by facilitating the reuse of interfaces and other assets, particularly those developed with federal or state funding. [...] Read More »
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Prostate Cancer Radiation Therapy Rises As Doctors Profit
Urologists who buy their own equipment to provide expensive radiation treatment are more likely to use it to treat prostate cancer even when the benefit for patients is unclear, research shows. Read More »
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Prosthetic Hand With Feeling: Re-Creating The Brain-Hand Connection
The human hand is a wonder of strength, sensitivity and discrimination — not only because of those four fingers and the opposable thumb, but also because of the human brain that controls it. No wonder, then, that for those who design hand prostheses, re-creating the natural dexterity of the brain-powered hand is a daunting challenge. Read More »
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Provider EHR Adoption Is Only One Half Of Meaningful Use
With the beginning of Stage 2 Meaningful Use approaching in several months for eligible hospitals, healthcare organizations participating in the EHR Incentive Programs will need to exceed thresholds for exchanging health information between providers and between providers and patients. Read More »
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Providers Are Held Accountable. Why Aren't Technology Vendors?
As healthcare shifts from fee-for-service to fee-for-value, hospitals and physicians are increasingly being held accountable for outcomes by the government, payers and patients... Read More »
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Providers Unhappy With HIE Vendors' Sharing Capabilities
As interoperability issues persist in the health information exchange market, respondents in a new KLAS survey report dissatisfaction with their vendors. Read More »
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Providers, EHR Vendors Lag On Copy-Paste, Fraud Safegaurds
Hospitals, clinicians and health IT companies could be doing more to control EHR copy-and-pasting and over-documentation and prevent potential fraud, according to the HHS Inspector General. Read More »
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Psychiatric Tsunami: 1 In 5 Children Now Have A Mental Disorder
Last week the CDC released a report titled “Mental Health Surveillance Among Children — United States, 2005–2011”. For the first time the US government has taken a close look at the incidence and prevalence of common childhood disorders such as ADHD, depression, anxiety disorders, serious behavior problems and similar conditions. Read More »
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Public Health Veteran To Head WA State Department Of Health
Washington State Governor Jay Islee has appointed a new Department of Health director, the current Clark County Public Health director, John Wiesman. Read More »
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Public Medical Labs Could Save Canada $250 Million A Year: Study
The Canadian health care system could save a quarter of its billion-dollar annual spending on lab tests if for-profit labs no longer did them, a new study suggests. Read More »
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Public Sentiment On HealthCare.gov Takes A Nosedive
The public’s impression of HealthCare.gov, the Obama administration’s online health insurance marketplace, remains deeply negative two weeks after its troubled launch, according to an analysis of Twitter sentiment. Read More »
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Publication Liberation
Making academic publications freely available to researchers and curious students should be standard practice... Read More »
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PwC-Led Team To Offer 'Open Source' EHR To DoD
PwC has joined forces with Medsphere, DSS, Inc. and General Dynamics Information Technology to vie for the coveted U.S. Department of Defense Healthcare Management Systems Modernization (DHMSM) electronic health record contract, and plans to merge "open source" software with commercial applications in its proposal, PwC has announced...
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