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E-Book Ruling Gives Amazon An Advantage

David Streitfeld | New York Times | July 10, 2013

Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, loves disrupting markets. In that regard, he must be having a delightful summer. The book business, once so mired in the past it seemed part of the antiques trade, is up for grabs. Read More »

EHR Transition Causes Its Own Headaches

Pamela Lewis Dolan | amednews.com | August 5, 2013

Technology contracts often favor the vendor. Medical practices should negotiate the most agreeable terms possible, especially regarding termination, to make for a clean break. Read More »

EHR Users Ditching Systems, Trading Up

Erin McCann | Healthcare IT News | July 23, 2013

Dissatisfaction with current EHR systems have many providers turning to new vendors Read More »

EHR Vendors Brace For The Impact Of Lost Customers, New Black Book Survey Focuses On Replacement Marketplace

Press Release | Black Book Market Research | July 17, 2013

With EHR brand loyalty is at its lowest, usability flaws are driving users to switch vendors despite additional expenses and productivity losses. The defection rate is predicted to hit 20% within twelve months and replacement EHRs now account for 70% of all EHR purchases. Read More »

EHRs And Health IT Projects: Are They Battering Hospitals' Financial Profiles?

Bob Herman | Becker's Hospital Review | January 6, 2014

This past November, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services downgraded the credit rating of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C., from "AA-" to "A+". Read More »

Electronic Records Conversion Loss of 55.1 Million For Wake Forest Baptist

Richard Craver | Winston-Salem Journal | August 30, 2013

The rollout of the Epic electronic health records system contributed to a $55.1 million operational loss in fiscal 2012-13 for Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, according to a financial report released Thursday. Read More »

EMRs Can Boost Your Practice Productivity

Mike Jenkins | BuildYourEMR | August 26, 2013

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 »

Escaping The EHR Trap — The Future Of Health IT

Kenneth D. Mandl and Isaac S. Kohane | The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) | June 14, 2012

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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Europe Aims To Regulate The Cloud

Danny Hakim | New York Times | October 6, 2013

In a recent speech, Cameron F. Kerry, the general counsel of the United States Commerce Department, said: “It would be a sad outcome of the surveillance disclosures if they led to an approach to Internet policy-making and governance in which countries became a series of walled gardens with governments holding the keys to locked gates.” ... Read More »

Ex-Nokia Engineers Launch A Linux Smartphone That Runs Android Apps

Serdar Yegulalp | InfoWorld | November 27, 2013

Jolla smartphone uses an OS based on the Nokia's former MeeGo project and will be sold in 135 countries Read More »

External Pressures Force Community Hospitals To Reconsider EMR Systems

Press Release | KLAS Enterprises LLC | December 17, 2012

Dissatisfaction with EMR performance and economic challenges cause community hospitals to question EMR selection Read More »

FDA Wants To Leverage Electronic Medical Records To Probe For Adverse Events

Alexander Gaffney | Regulatory Focus (RF) | January 6, 2014

Keeping track of adverse events is a tricky task, even for regulators. Even when a drug has undergone a rigorous premarket assessment process, some risks may not become evident until a product is used by millions. And for other drugs, a particularly rare but serious side effect may take months, if not years, to be identified. Read More »

Firefox OS Is Now on Smartphones

Michael Blain | Las Vegas Guardian Express | October 23, 2013

Firefox has been the longstanding preference of tech savvy users for web browsing for the better part of a decade now.  Created by Mozilla, the Firefox OS is a natural extension of their mobile desktop and browsing interfaces, and now, thanks to LG, will be the gears and bolts now powering their new line of smartphones. Read More »

Firefox OS Smartphone, New Tablets Star At MWC 2014

Pablo Valerio | EE Times | February 26, 2014

While tradeshows are no longer the place to announce new products -- manufacturers tend to release them at their convenience -- the annual Mobile World Congress in Barcelona sometimes proves the outlier, with a number of different mobile and other announcements that set the stage for the rest of the year. Read More »

Firefox OS-based ZTE One Coming To US, UK Through eBay

Barry Levine | CIO Today | August 12, 2013

For developers, a key selling point for Firefox OS devices is their emphasis on HTML5 apps, which can be readily adapted from Web apps and run on a variety of mobile platforms. [...] Read More »