Information Technology (IT)
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Healthcare.gov: It Could Be Worse
On October 1st, the first day of the government shutdown, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services launched Healthcare.gov, a four-hundred-million-dollar online marketplace designed to help Americans research and purchase health insurance. In its first days, only a small fraction of users could create an account or log in. [...] Read More »
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HIMSS Foundation And National eHealth Collaborative Merge
Focused on better health and greater value through information technology, the HIMSS Foundation and the National eHealth Collaborative announce a merger. Both organizations embrace a similar mission to engage with all stakeholders to drive positive change in healthcare with IT and provide a single, mission-driven voice and focus; NeHC will fold into the HIMSS Foundation. Read More »
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Hiring Managers Advise Job Seekers To Contribute To Open-Source Projects
Contributing to open-source projects can give software developers an edge over other applicants in the competitive IT job market, say hiring professionals. Read More »
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HL7 Developing New Health Care Messaging Standard
A new HL7 standard, called Fast Health Interoperable Resources (FHIR), could allow clinical research organizations to extract data from patients' records. Read More »
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HL7 Readies Blue Button Conversion Tool
Health Level Seven, the Ann Arbor, Mich.-based standards development organization, announced that by April it will have a file conversion tool and user's guide to adapt its Continuity of Care Document message transport specification to the Blue Button format developed by the U.S. Veterans Affairs Department. Read More »
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Hospitals Paying the Price of Not Investing in IT Security
The fact is, most of healthcare simply doesn’t spend enough on data security. In a study conducted by HIMSS Analytics and Symantec that polled 115 IT and security professionals in hospitals with more than 100 beds, more than half (52 percent) said their organization dedicated between zero and 3 percent of the IT budget to security. Just 28 percent said they spent between 3 and 6 percent of IT budget on security. “All of this makes healthcare organizations rich targets for cybercriminals,” reads the study summary.
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House Backs IT Buying Overhaul
The House on Friday passed a bipartisan plan to overhaul the way the government purchases and manages information technology, as part of a major defense policy bill. House members agreed to add a version of the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act on a voice vote early Friday and passed the full bill shortly after 1 p.m. Read More »
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House Committee Approves FITARA, FISMA Update
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee approved two bills on Wednesday that could have lasting effects on the federal information technology community if made into law. Read More »
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House Oversight Chairman Calls IT Budget Request Misleading
The chairman of the House committee that oversees most government information technology spending on Thursday criticized the $82 billion IT request included in President Obama’s fiscal 2014 budget proposal, saying the figure is likely misleading. Read More »
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How A NASA Open Source Startup Could Change The IT Universe
Former NASA CTO explains how the open source OpenStack project came to be and why it could be NASA's most important contribution. Read More »
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How An Unknown Taiwanese Server Maker Is Eating The Big Guys’ Lunch
In the server business, Taiwanese hardware company Quanta has shifted from an original-design manufacturer to much more of a direct seller. It wants to extend the trend and sell other products, too. Read More »
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How Big Data Is Destroying The U.S. Healthcare System
One thing I find ironic in the current controversy over problems with the healthcare.gov insurance sign-up web site is that the people complaining don’t really mean what they are saying. Not only do they have have little to no context for their arguments, they don’t even want the improvements they are demanding. [...] Read More »
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How Do Cloud-Based EHRs Address Common Implementation Woes?
After spending thousands of dollars on an EHR system, computers, IT infrastructure, installation, and staff training, most providers hope that they never have to go through the EHR implementation process again. [...] Read More »
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How Healthcare.gov Went Wrong
Here at DOBT we talk a lot about How To Fix Procurement, but you don’t hear a lot about why things go wrong. The Healthcare.gov Fiasco is instructive in that it highlights every piece of our procurement process that’s broken. How, with a half-trillion dollar a year spend, could something like this botch even happen? Here’s how: Read More »
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How States Launched Successful Health Exchanges
In the second half of August, six weeks before rollout, the best tech minds building Washington D.C.’s Health Benefit Exchange gathered to test the system end to end... Read More »
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