One of the most interesting twists resulting from Hurricane Maria striking Puerto Rico was Elon Musk's offer that Tesla could help Puerto Rico solve its energy crisis, with a long-term, 21st century fix. After all, its electrical grid was devastated, with almost all the power wiped out. It didn't help that even prior to this disaster its system was antiquated and badly in need of repairs. It is telling that we don't have similar offers to rebuild the Puerto Rico's health care system, which is similarly devastated. Or, for that matter, our system, which is its own kind of disaster. Mr. Musk was asked on Twitter if Tesla could help Puerto Rico using solar and battery power, and he responded in the affirmative, saying it had done so on smaller islands but faced no scalablity issues...
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Elon, Do We Have a Disaster for You!
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EMR Market Over $20 Billion: Report
New York, April 18, 2013 -- Driven by hospital IT upgrades and the lure of government incentives, the market for electronic medical records (EMR) exceeded 20 billion dollars in 2012, according to Kalorama Information. The healthcare market research publisher says vendors should see robust sales this year and next as vendors try to avoid U.S. Read More »
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EMRs Can Boost Your Practice Productivity
In one of his recent blogs, Rex Bowden mentions many EMR related concerns that doctors have with most of the popular electronic medical records systems (EMRs) available. While Rex's post casts a very wide net, I am pleased to note that not every EMR on the market today fits his description... Read More »
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Enhancements Minimize Data Latency at MD Anderson Cancer Center Data Vault
CAV Systems Ltd...has recently completed a major enhancement of Evolve Suite – the company’s “relational from MUMPS” data mapping and migration tools – for The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Office of Protocol Research (OPR). Prior to the enhancements, even with the benefits of the Evolve Data Migrator, the transfer of data from the PDMS system sitting on a legacy VAX/VMS platform to the Data Vault was a lengthy process involving multiple platforms. With the completion of the enhancements, the “freshness” of the Clinical Trials data in the Data Vault is now determined by the needs of the users of the Data Vault rather than the operational constraints of the multi-platform data extraction process.
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Enterprises See Growing Open Source Cloud Appeal
The maturing of open source software (OSS) and increasing support from mainstream IT vendors mean that cloud architectures built using OSS tools will grow on companies looking to avoid vendor lock-in, but they will need to assess whether they have the internal know-how to manage such deployments. Read More »
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Epic Challenge: What The Emergence Of An EMR Giant Means For The Future Of Healthcare Innovation
Medicine has been notoriously slow to embrace the electronic medical record (EMR), but, spurred by tax incentives and the prospect of cost and outcomes accountability, the use of electronic medical records (EMRs) is finally catching on. Read More »
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Epic Systems Feeling Heat Over Interoperability
Epic Systems' August decision to retain a Washington lobbyist was widely seen as a sign that the leading electronic health-record system vendor is feeling political heat based on the perceived lack of interoperability between its EHR systems and other systems.
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Epic Systems Says Alliance Between Electronic Health Records Vendors Caught It By Surprise
In a bid to put a private sector stamp on the push for interoperability, a group of electronic health records vendors led by Cerner and McKesson formed the CommonWell Health Alliance yesterday. Read More »
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Epic Systems, Leading Defense EHR Bidder, Slammed For Lack Of Interoperability
Epic Systems, considered the front-runner for the Defense Department’s $11 billion electronic health record contract, has come under sustained criticism for lack of interoperability with other EHRs, including most recently a front-page story in The New York Times last Sunday...
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Escaping The EHR Trap — The Future Of Health IT
It is a widely accepted myth that medicine requires complex, highly specialized information-technology (IT) systems. This myth continues to justify soaring IT costs, burdensome physician workloads, and stagnation in innovation — while doctors become increasingly bound to documentation and communication products that are functionally decades behind those they use in their “civilian” life.
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Establishing Trust And Interoperability In The Post-NwHIN Governance Era
At the September meeting of the Health IT Policy Committee, National Coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari announced that the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT was dropping its plans to issue regulations setting voluntary "rules of the road" for participation in the Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN). Read More »
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Estonian Schools Piloting Open Source Software
Schools in Estonia’s capital Tallinn are piloting a new program, gradually moving to PC workstations running on free and open source software. Students, teachers, school administration and kindergartens’ staff members are using LibreOffice, Ubuntu-Linux and other open source tools, saving millions of dollars on software fees. As computers have become ubiquitous, schools are basically forced to incorporate computers in the educational process. But buying a computer for a school isn’t as easy as simply buying a computer – you have to buy useful, licensed software through public auctions, and that often costs a lot of money...
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EUPL And CeCILL Become Compatible
The French law free software licence CeCILL 2.1 is published, ready for being OSI approved and it is compatible with the EUPL. Read More »
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EUPL And CeCILL Become Compatible
The French law free software licence CeCILL 2.1 is published, ready for being OSI approved and it is compatible with the EUPL. Read More »
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Europe Pledges Support for Open Source Government Solutions
Estonia has long been the digital envy of many European Union member states. An effective and open policy approach to digital government has yielded extraordinary results—from 90%+ uptake of electronic identification (E-ID) solutions to an open source e-government platform (X-Road) to meet the ever-growing expectations of IT-savvy citizens as well as other countries wanting to pool IT across borders. Perhaps the most significant development for open source supporters is the explicit recognition of open source software (OSS) as a key driver towards achieving ambitious governmental digitisation goals by 2020. Under the declaration, European goverments will...
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