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Say “Yes” to Innovation

Staff | Healthcare Financial Management Association | March 1, 2012

Tablets and smartphones hold great potential to improve veterans’ care, believes VA CIO Roger Baker. “As IT head, my job is to make sure we can support mobile platforms.”

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The Connected Consumer—She Loves Her iPad, and She'll Be Able to Connect for Health

Jane Sarasohn-Kahn | Health Populi | January 26, 2012

The adoption and enchantment with these devices can enable people to not only ‘shop’ for health services, but to receive these services in real-time at a distance. Traditionally “telehealth” has been thought to be delivered in a B2B sense, between health providers — say urban centered medical experts consulting remotely with physicians in the hinterlands.

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Under The Surface, Microsoft's ARM Tablet Is A Terrible Mistake

A.T. Faust III | AppAdvice.com | July 3, 2012

Unhappy with Microsoft’s intended release of a direct hardware competitor, HP has reportedly withdrawn its support for the Windows on ARM RT (or “WART”) platform. The sages at SemiAccurate acerbically explain the whole ugly affair: "…Microsoft just unveiled one of the largest and most unethical industrial espionage campaigns of the last few decades, so it is no surprise that everyone is jumping ship."...

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VA Taps DSHI to Develop App for Tablets

Brian Dolan | MobiHealthNews | January 31, 2012

The Veterans Health Administration (VA) has tapped DSHI Systems to create a tablet-based mobile triage system for the emergency room that determines how urgently a patients needs to be seen by a physician. The application, called ER Mobile, will help emergency room nurses better identify the sickest patients so that they can be cared for first.

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Veterans Affairs CIO Eyes Budget Increase

J. Nicholas Hoover | Information Week | February 21, 2012

While IT spending across most of the federal government would be flat next year under President Obama's budget released last week, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) would see a 6.9% increase, with much of the uptick going to improved electronic health records (EHRs).

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WebOS Gets Surprise Second Life in Healthcare

Janet Maragioglio | Mobiledia | January 4, 2012

Hewlett-Packard's WebOS is making unexpected inroads in healthcare as medical researchers develop applications for the newly open-source platform. Andrew B. Read More »