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iEHR Redefined: DOD's Top 3 Tactics In VA Turf War Detente
While turf wars between the DOD and VA have effectively blunted efforts for a unified electronic health record system, both agencies are at least moving toward improving interoperability. On the DOD side, three initiatives are budgeted for continuing development — some seeing request increases, others flat, per the DOD’s overall budgeting trends...
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IHE Standards Come Of Age In The Age Of Interoperability
At the Radiological Society of North America’s annual conference this year, a real-world use case of Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) medical image and personal health record standards is slated for demonstration. Read More »
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Image Sharing Grows in Importance
Despite the importance of developing an enterprise medical imaging approach, the strategy requires the easy exchange of images, and achieving that interoperability is a major challenge, according to results of a recent survey. Still, more than half of 100 surveyed IT leaders in healthcare organizations say their facility has an enterprise imaging strategy—a major component supporting the move to interoperability—and 54 percent say specialists at their facility can electronically exchange images with patients, providers and referring sites...
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Imaging And Radiology Paves The Way For Industry Adoption Of Open Source
Open source software in healthcare has been instrumental for sharing common tools and increasing adoption of emerging medical information technology (IT) standards. By leading the effort to digitize health data, imaging informatics has set the precedent for the adoption of the technology industry's best practices and subsequently open source software. Read More »
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Imaging Informatics Solutions Provider ClearCanvas Debuts Vendor Neutral PACS Cleome
ClearCanvas introduces its unique new vendor neutral PACS, Cleome, to its portfolio of commercial products. This web-based breakthrough solution features fast diagnostic viewing of all medical images using zero-footprint HTML5, anytime, anywhere. Read More »
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Improved Interoperability Needed To Fulfill Health IT's Promise
Health IT has failed to live up to its promise so far, largely because it's not interconnected or easy to use, and because providers have not made changes in the way they deliver healthcare services to reap its benefits, according to Arthur Kellerman, M.D., a policy analyst with RAND Corp., who writes in this month's Health Affairs. Read More »
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IMS MAXIMS customer Taunton and Somerset FT Named as Global Digital Exemplar by UK Government
Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust (FT), customer of pioneering company IMS MAXIMS, has been named by Government as one of 12 Global Digital Exemplars in the NHS. The trust will receive up to £10 million of funding over the next two years to pioneer digital excellence and share best practice. Recognised for its digital maturity and innovative digital health initiatives, the trust, which runs Musgrove Park Hospital, will be given the financial backing and support to fast track its plans to become world class in its digital deployments; using technology to help staff achieve higher efficiencies, enable better organisational workflows and deliver better patient care...
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In Defense Industry, A Souring Mood On Acquisition Reform
When Trey Obering was deputy director of the Defense Department’s missile defense agency in 2002, he was asked to fix one of the most troubled acquisition programs in recent history. The airborne laser — a modified Boeing 747 jet that carried a megawatt laser to shoot down ballistic missiles — was handed over by the Air Force to MDA after eight years of nonachievement.
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In Healthcare, Time To Free The Data
To justify optimism about healthcare IT, we need to free the data tied up in electronic health records -- and it is happening. Read More »
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In-Depth: How Patient Generated Health Data Is Evolving Into One Of Healthcare’s Biggest Trends
What patient generated data used to be and why it is increasingly important Read More »
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India Adopts A Comprehensive Open Source Policy
The Government of India (GOI) has adopted a comprehensive and supportive open source policy. It builds on their earlier efforts to adopt open standards for procurement. As we've seen in other regions, the adoption of such policies often brings out concerns from some quarters who want to spread 'fear and doubt' about the policy. So, what are the facts about the policy, and how does it fit into India's broader economic development strategy? Read More »
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Industry Groups To HHS: Include Patient Generated Data In MU Stage 3
Eight healthcare and technology industry groups have sent a letter to the Health IT Policy Committee (HITPC), in the Department of Health and Human Services, asking that Meaningful Use Stage 3 guidelines include a requirement that electronic health records make use of patient generated data from remote monitoring devices. Read More »
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Industry Welcomes DeSalvo To ONC
Karen DeSalvo, MD, current health commissioner of New Orleans, will be taking the ONC reins Jan. 13, replacing acting national coordinator Jacob Reider. She is the first woman to serve in this role. Read More »
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Innovation: What Is It?
If it is one thing that the healthcare IT industry doesn’t lack, it is innovation – or it least innovation on the edges. A quick search on Google for health IT innovation challenges will serve you up over 23K hits. [...] Read More »
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Innovators vs. The Establishment Extends to Digital Health
Just like in the presidential campaign, a new guard is rising up against the establishment in digital health — and healthcare in general. Entrenched interests, of course, are fighting back any way they can to retain their grip on the industry. At the American Telemedicine Association annual conference in Minneapolis this week, lots of telehealth and digital health companies, as always, were showing off their wares in the exhibit hall. Presenters in the 100 or so breakout sessions discussed practical applications of their technology...
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