Health care needs a better business model. HHS reports that U.S. health care spending will surpass $10,000 per person this year, will grow almost 6% annually for the foreseeable future, and will consume over 20% of GDP by 2025. About half of our spending goes for labor costs, with health care employment remaining one of the "bright spots" in our economy. Indeed, health care jobs continued to soar even when the economy tanked in our most recent recession. Despite that steady growth, we continue to talk about a physician shortage, especially for primary care. Medical school enrollment is at new highs, yet it is not projected to dent the demand...
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5 Ways to Manage the Cost of Health IT
Michelle McNickle | Healthcare Finance News | February 1, 2012
Managing costs in today's industry has been put front and center. And although incentive funds have been helping organizations to implement health IT, easy tweaks and innovative tips are always welcome to help cut corners.
Industry experts give use five simple ways to help manage the cost of health IT. Read More »
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After Scrapping Bigger Plans, HP Says WebOS Still Has An Open-Source Future
Brandon Bailey | Mercury News | February 24, 2012
The future of webOS -- the innovative mobile software that three successive CEOs at Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) have struggled to make into a profitable product -- may lie somewhere in the windowless rooms of a Stanford Medical School radiology lab. That's where researcher Andrew B. Read More »
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Agencies Saving one-Fifth of IT Budget Through Virtualization, Survey Finds
Joseph Marks | Nextgov | February 1, 2012
More than 80 percent of federal information technology leaders say their agencies have implemented some manner of server virtualization and, overall, the government is saving nearly 20 percent of its IT budget through virtualization, according to a recent survey.
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AirStrip, Humetrix and others advise Congress on FDA, FTC, HIPAA
Jonah Comstock | Mobi Health News | July 13, 2016
At a congressional hearing on mobile medical apps today, experts from different sectors of the industry weighed in on the ways they think federal regulation needs to change to create a robust digital health industry while still protecting the safety and wellbeing of patients. The conversation spanned various regulatory bodies and federal programs including HIPAA, the FDA, the FTC, and Medicare. “The regulatory framework for most of these apps is complicated and in some cases troubling,” Nicolas Terry, a law professor at Indiana University said in his prepared testimony. “Here, the oversimplified binary of regulation versus innovation is a poor frame...
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Android in Space!
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | ZD Net | January 12, 2012
Flying robots in space .. all made possible by a Samsung Nexus S.
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App Internet and Mobile Devices to Drive Massive Technology Demands in 2012
Leo King | PC World | December 18, 2011
The rise of the "app internet" -- in which users' PCs, smartphones and tablets run the business applications - will drive completely different demands from technology next year. That is the verdict of technology industry experts, who predicted fast-shifting pressures on technology from the rise in mobile application development, cloud computing and new security threats.
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Artificial Pancreas Shows Promise in Diabetes Test
Nicholas Bakalar | New York Times | June 15, 2014
A portable artificial pancreas built with a modified iPhone successfully regulated blood sugar levels in a trial with people who have Type 1 diabetes, researchers reported Sunday.
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Avoiding a patient’s lawsuit could hinge on device interoperability
Sara Jackson | Fierce Mobile | August 31, 2011
Hospital CIOs and physicians I've talked with are clearly thinking about how the new 24/7 availability of this information on mobile devices (rather than via a desktop PC) increases a physician's liability. Read More »
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Axial Exchange Wins Health 2.0 Challenge for Its Care Transition Suite
Brian Edwards | iMedical Apps | January 17, 2012
Axial Exchange recently won the $25,000 Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Health 2.0 Challenge. Their entry was entitled “Ensuring Safe Transitions from Hospital to Home” and included its Care Transition Suite for coordinating data management among all participants, including emergency responders (EMS), physicians, and hospitals, during the transition of a patient back and for Read More »
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Canonical CEO: Ubuntu Tablet OS Will Battle Android, iOS
Paul Krill | InfoWorld | January 11, 2012
Jane Silber is on a mission to get the Ubuntu Linux distribution onto mobile devices and TVs, rather than be stuck on desktop PCs.
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China's ZTE launches 'open' Firefox phones in US & Britain
AFP Staff | AFP | August 12, 2013
Chinese telecom giant ZTE announced plans Monday to sell a low-cost smartphone using the open source Firefox operating system in the United States and Britain. Read More »
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DISA Eyes Tablets and Smartphones for Europe, Mideast and Africa
Bob Brewin | NextGov | November 10, 2011
While Apple and Google have yet to win government security certification for their operating systems that power smartphones and tablets, the Defense Information Systems Agency signaled in a notice to industry Tuesday that it wants to use commercial mobile devices in its network. Read More »
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Do We Really Need More Doctors? How About Trying to Have Healthier Folks?
By Kim Bellard | July 25, 2016
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Fun With Data
Alastair Otter | MyBroadband | January 4, 2012
Crowdmap is not just a cool tool for mapping data but also a fantastic way to collect additional data. Crowdmap can be used to track geographic reports on just about any event. It’s built on the Ushahidi platform which was originally built to monitor election violence in Kenya, but is today used for a range of mapping services. Read More »
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Humetrix to Demo Consumer-Driven Mobile Health Platforms iBlueButton, SOS QR and TENSIO at Health 2.0 Annual Fall Conference
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September 19, 2016
Humetrix will participate in the upcoming Health 2.0 Annual Fall Conference, showcasing its suite of mHealth platforms in Booth #400: iBlueButton for mobile-based health record access and exchange; TENSIO™ for managing high blood pressure; and the multi language SOS QR for emergency care and personal safety. These mobile platforms, offered worldwide to consumers, enterprises and government agencies, empower patients to manage and take control of their own healthcare by putting actionable health information at their finger tips and on their own devices...
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