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Global Alliance Formed To Create Framework For Genomic Data Sharing
More than 70 major research and healthcare organizations from 41 countries have signed a letter of intent to create a framework for sharing genomic data worldwide, posted at the Broad Institute's website... Read More »
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Google Taking Over Health Records Raises Patient Privacy Fears
Last year, the U.K. government privacy watchdog said an NHS hospital had illegally sent 1.6 million patient records to DeepMind to develop Streams, fanning public fears about data safety. In June, a group of outside experts DeepMind Health appointed to scrutinize its work urged the unit to "entrench" its separation from Alphabet. After the consolidation with Google was announced, Julia Powles, a researcher at New York University School of Law and a critic of DeepMind's work with the NHS, scorched the reversal. "DeepMind said it'd never connect Streams with Google," she wrote. "The whole Streams app is now a Google product! That is an atrocious breach of trust."...
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Green Light For £260 Million Technology Fund To Make The NHS Safer
Doctors and nurses are to get better information about patients so people get safer care thanks to a new £260 million NHS technology fund, announced by NHS England today. Read More »
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Greenway Shows The Value Of Patient Data Beyond The EHR At HIMSS14
Company accelerates interoperability of data across platforms for care coordination, clinically driven financials and optimized population health; to demonstrate in booth 2503 Read More »
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Growth Of SMART Health Care Apps May Be Slow, But Inevitable
This week has been teaming with health care conferences, particularly in Boston, and was declared by President Obama to be National Health IT Week as well. I chose to spend my time at the second ITdotHealth conference, where I enjoyed many intense conversations with some of the leaders in the health care field [...]. Read More »
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Guam Sub Tender USS Frank Cable Upgrades Medical Department
The submarine tender USS Frank Cable (AS 40) upgraded its medical department's patient care medical records system from a local-only paper medical record system to the Theater Medical Information Program (TMIP) system, March 11.
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Harris Corporation Unveils FusionFX - Advanced Healthcare Integration Platform
Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS), an international communications and information technology company, launched an advanced integration platform for healthcare providers worldwide during the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference being held February 23-27 in Orlando, Florida. Read More »
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Health Checks Via Smartphones, Tablets On The Way
A new cloud-based system could deliver real-time health monitoring and alerts to healthcare professionals. Read More »
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Health Information Errors Cited Among Top 10 Health IT Hazards
Three of the 10 top health technology hazards cited in a report from ECRI Institute deal with errors in information management. Read More »
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Health Information Technology: Putting the Patient Back into Health Care
Most government advisory committees are stocked with representatives of corporations and special interest groups who distort government policies, sometimes unconsciously and with good intentions, to fertilize their own turfs. In health information technology, we have a rare chance to ensure that the most affected members of the public actually have their own direct representative.
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Health IT Implementation And The Importance Of Data Liquidity
We’ve all heard the latest buzz words: big data, data visualization, data integrity. The prevalence of these terms in Health IT circles are evidence that Healthcare organizations are faced with immense amounts of data, and their “buzz” status is more than enough warning that facing data challenges is an imminent prospect. [...] Read More »
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Health IT Inefficiencies Hinder Coordination For DOD, VA, Audit Finds
The departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs are facing several barriers -- such as inefficiencies in health IT projects -- that are hindering their efforts to effectively coordinate care, according to a recent audit by the Government Accountability Office, Government Health IT reports (Brino, Government Health IT, 10/1). Read More »
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Health IT's Next Big Challenge: Comparative Effectiveness Research
Healthcare providers are being pushed to deliver more cost effective medical care and to improve the health of not just individual patients but large populations. One key to carrying out both mandates is finding more clinically effective treatment options. Read More »
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Healthcare Attorneys: New Business Relationships Will Create New EHR Problems
The healthcare industry already has experienced several unintended issues related to electronic health records [...]. But as implementation of EHRs begins to mature and providers step up integration in response to health reform, there will be additional unanticipated operational and business problems involving EHRs that will arise. Read More »
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Heart A-Hack
A group of clinicians and developers won NHS Hack Day Oxford with an open source electronic patient record for cardiologists. Read More »
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