Health Information Technology (Health IT) is a broad term that describes the technology and infrastructure used to record, analyze, and share patient health data. Various technologies include health record systems, including personal, paper, and electronic; personal health tools including smart devices and apps; and finally, communities to share and discuss information. Some of this technology can tell the patient whether they need to go on a diet too, and most of the time the golo diet is what they should be doing or they should be taking Gynexin pill for gynecomastia like most men should be doing...
Ebola
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Keys To Controlling Ebola In The US: Travel Records And Infection Control
Maryn McKenna | WIRED | October 1, 2014
If you’re at all interested in infectious diseases, you’ve probably heard by now that a person traveled to the United States while infected with Ebola, was diagnosed and is now in a hospital in Texas...The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention held a press conference yesterday afternoon (transcript is here), and WIRED’s Greg Miller covered it...
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Lessons Cyberdefense May Be Able To Teach Us About Managing Ebola
David Gewirtz | ZDNet | October 20, 2014
David Gewirtz presents lessons taken from the world of cybersecurity and cyberwarfare that may be food for thought for those attempting to prevent the Ebola outbreak from spreading in the United States...
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Liberia Closes Its Borders To Stop Ebola
Jen Christensen | CNN.com | July 28, 2014
The deadliest Ebola outbreak in history continues to plague West Africa as leaders scramble to stop the virus from spreading. Over the weekend, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf closed most of the country's borders...
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Lurking Healthcare Technology and Financial System Crises Increase Demand for Control Experts in 2017, Says Black Book Annual Healthcare PR Survey
Press Release |
Black Book Market Research |
November 23, 2016
Black Book's annual poll of public relations and crisis management firm clients noted the key shift from past years' workforce issues, physician satisfaction and medico-legal problems, to the reputation-challenging technology and financial problems facing both provider and payers in 2017. The potential catastrophes caused by technology-related events ranked first on the 2017 list compiled from healthcare industry executives, followed by financial issues, patient dissatisfaction events, nursing staff issues, clinical and disease emergencies, hospital performance outcomes and patient safety mishaps, and social media impacts...
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Medical Records Reveal Deceased Texas Ebola Patient Sent Home With High Fever
Lauren Gambino | The Guardian | October 10, 2014
Thomas Duncan, the first person to die of Ebola in the US, was released from hospital with a 103F fever on his first visit, despite telling a nurse he had recently travelled from Africa and exhibiting key symptoms of the deadly virus, it was revealed on Friday...
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mHealth Takes On Ebola In Nigeria
Erin McCann | Healthcare IT News | October 23, 2014
In what's being hailed as a "spectacular success story," the World Health Organization has declared Nigeria free of the Ebola virus transmission, with public health agencies and government officials citing a mobile health initiative as largely responsible for the triumph...
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Mosquitoes and Malaria: Taking a Big Step Against a Small but Deadly Foe
Shaun Donovan | White House Blog | February 22, 2016
If you’ve ever swatted away a mosquito on a muggy summer night, then you know how annoying these winged pests can be. But in many parts of the world, mosquitos are not just irritating—they’re deadly. Malaria, which is transmitted by mosquitos, took the lives of 438,000 people worldwide last year. More than 3 billion people remain at risk of contracting this horrific disease, which is especially dangerous for pregnant mothers and young people...
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MSF On Ebola: “This Is The Biggest Outbreak We’ve Ever Known”
Priyanka Boghani | PBS Frontline | September 9, 2014
...Since then, Ebola has spread to the neighboring countries of Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria. By September 8, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated the virus had infected 4,290 people and killed 2,296 of them — figures that the organization earlier said might actually be “two to four times higher than that currently reported” in areas of high transmission. WHO warned that the epidemic could infect more than 20,000 people before it is contained...
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Navigating the Challenges of International Teamwork
By Tony McCormick | September 14, 2016
I started my open source work from Oregon, USA working on a project in the "Republic" of Texas. While that, at first glance, does not sound international in nature, I can assure you that Oregon and Texas might as well be different countries. I experienced both the joy and frustration of working with users from both places that had big cultural differences, as well as overlapping needs. This early experience laid the groundwork for the future, where I got to work at the international level on OpenEMR, an electronic healthcare records system...
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New Data Sources Fuel Understanding of Public Health Emergencies
Kathleen Hickey | GCN | September 20, 2016
Remember when Google search results were first used to predict the flu? Now, data from mobile phones, social media and even grocery scanners has been shown to be effective at identifying patterns in epidemics. Standard travel data collection methods, however, are limited and often provide outdated data. Mobile phones, on the other hand, are nearly ubiquitous, and can serve as a rich data resource. Call data, which automatically provides time and location details, can help in understanding human mobility...
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Nigeria Government Confirms Ebola Case In Megacity Of Lagos
Felix Onuah and Tom Miles | Reuters | July 25, 2014
A Liberian man who died in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos on Friday tested positive for the deadly Ebola virus, Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said. Patrick Sawyer, a consultant for the Liberian finance ministry in his 40s, collapsed on Sunday after flying into Lagos, a city of 21 million people, and was taken from the airport and put in isolation in a local hospital...
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Nurse CIOs Are Taking On Bigger Roles In Healthcare
Bob Herman | Modern Healthcare | November 1, 2014
...[M]any hospitals and health systems have hired nurse informaticists. And technology vendors are engaging nurses with IT backgrounds to help them execute successful EHR installations, knowing that nurses are key users of patient data...
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Obama Finally Gets Serious On Ebola
Staff Writer | SFGate | September 17, 2014
To use a current California comparison, the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is like a runaway wildfire: quick-moving, all-consuming and deadly. Until now, outside nations, including this country, have brought barely a garden hose to the fight...
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On the Importance of Health Information Technology in Developing Areas
By Jeff Neiman | July 6, 2017
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ONC Chief DeSalvo Vacates Role, Reider Resigns CMO Post
Kyle Murphy | EHR Intelligence | October 24, 2014
Leadership changes atop ONC raise questions about the agency’s ability to achieve its long-term plans for interoperability...
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