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IT Pros Call Out Healthcare.gov For Lack Of Cloud Computing Prowess
IT industry experts said the launch of Healthcare.gov this month was hobbled by a byzantine, "old-school" infrastructure. Could cloud computing have solved the site's performance problems? Read More »
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IT Spending Up 2.1 Percent In President's Budget
The Obama administration budget for fiscal year 2014 includes a modest increase in overall IT spending. Total outlays are just under $82 billion, with $42.3 billion in civilian-agency IT spending, and $39.5 going to defense IT. Read More »
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Joyent Partners With Canonical On Customized Ubuntu As A Cloud Service
Joyent, well-known on the cloud computing scene and a growing player in Big Data analytics, announced a partnership with Canonical today to provide customers with optimized and supported Ubuntu server images in the Joyent Cloud. Effectively, users will be able to leverage a Canonical-customized Ubuntu in the cloud. [...] Read More »
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Keeping Bread Fresh With POWERLINK And Linux
De la Ballina specializes in packaging industrially produced baked goods. When developing its latest generation of machines, the French company decided to implement an integrated automation solution. POWERLINK was the only network protocol that was up to the task. [...] Read More »
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Key Lawmaker Wants To Ban VA Bonuses For Five Years
The chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee proposed legislation that would ban all bonuses for senior executives in the Veterans Affairs Department for the next five years. The move by Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., is in response to VA’s disability claims backlog and patient deaths in VA hospitals. Read More »
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McDonald's McResource Problem: Even Good Advice Can't Make Up For Low Wages
Yesterday McDonald’s (MCD) closed its McResource website, a well-meaning effort that had become a font of bad press for the fast food chain. The site suffered for two opposite but equally embarrassing problems. Some of its advice [...] clearly did not apply to McDonald’s workers. But some addressed the potential desperation of low-wage employees. [...] Read More »
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Meaningful Use Dropout Rate At A Staggering 17%
Here’s an alarming fact: the meaningful use dropout rate is already 17%. Read More »
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MedeAnalytics Study Shows How U.K. Healthcare System Could Save $2 Billion Annually — Findings Could Hold Important Lessons For U.S. System
Groundbreaking study identifies eight key metrics that could bend cost curve in U.S., U.K. Read More »
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Medicare, Medicaid EHR Meaningful Use Payments Surpass $8B In October
Medicare and Medicaid electronic health record payments have surpassed $8 billion since its inception, with $8.36 billion paid out to 165,800 eligible physicians and hospitals in total program estimates through the end of October. Read More »
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Meet CGI Federal, The Company Behind The Botched Launch Of HealthCare.gov
Over the past few weeks, if you've been paying attention at all to the unfolding disaster of people trying and failing to sign up for Obamacare online, one name keeps coming up: CGI Federal, the IT contractor that has orchestrated most of the Healthcare.gov Web site. By most accounts, it's been a complete train wreck, for reasons both technical and bureaucratic. Here's what you need to know about the company at the center of it all. Read More »
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Meet OwnCloud 5, The Open Source Dropbox
ownCloud is a free software suite, written in PHP, that provides file storage, synchronization, and sharing. It provides the same basic features of Dropbox or Box.net. It also provides a whole lot more. Read More »
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MGMA Survey: Physician Practices Report Increased Information Technology Costs
Information technology costs are on the rise, as physician practices adopt and optimize electronic health records (EHRs). Since 2008, medical practices' annual expenditures per full-time-equivalent (FTE) physician for information technology costs have climbed 27.8 percent, from a median of $15,211 in 2008 to a reported $19,439 in 2012 [...]. Read More »
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mHMtaani: US-Supported Program Empowers Community Health Workers Through Mobile Technology
In places like the Deep Sea Slum of Nairobi, Kenya, the dangers associated with pregnancy and child birth are not to be taken lightly. Read More »
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Microsoft Veteran Assumes HealthCare.gov Helm
HealthCare.gov has a new czar to replace fix-it guy Jeff Zients: Microsoft veteran Kurt DelBene. As Zients leaves to lead President Obama’s economic council, DelBene will take over management of the federal insurance marketplace Wednesday December 18, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced in a blog post. Read More »
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Miller: President Obama Must Help Stop Patient Deaths
On May 21, 2013, Chairman Jeff Miller wrote President Obama to request his assistance in addressing a rash of suicides, deaths and other serious patient-care issues at Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers across the country. Read More »
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