OK, you use your smartphone all the time: you use the latest and greatest apps, you can text or tweet with the best of them, you have the knack for selfies, and so on. You probably also have a computer, tablet, and a gaming system, each of which you are also very proficient with. No question: you are a whiz with electronic devices. But, if you're like most of us, you don't really know how or why they work. Maybe that's OK. Most of us don't know how our cars work either, couldn't explain how heavier-than-air flight is possible, have no idea what the periodic table means to our daily lives, and would be in trouble if our lives depending on us making, say, bricks or glass...
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CommonWell Is A Shame And A Missed Opportunity
Adrian Gropper | The Health Care Blog | March 6, 2013
The big news at HIMSS13 was the unveiling of CommonWell (Cerner, McKesson, Allscripts, athenahealth, Greenway and RelayHealth) to “get the ball rolling” on data exchange across disparate technologies. The shame is that another program with opaque governance by the largest incumbents in health IT is being passed off as progress. Read More »
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CommonWell Plans EHR Pilot; Denies Data Will Be For Sale
Scott Mace | HealthLeaders Media | June 4, 2013
A joint effort to provide interoperability among the electronic health records systems of competing vendors is proceeding without a great deal of transparency and openness outside of the participating members. Read More »
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CommonWell: Healthcare Interoperability Or Bust
Mark Braunstein | Information Week | January 8, 2015
Peter Bernhardt of CommonWell Health Alliance, a group of clinical and health IT organizations, talks about its goal of better data exchange and application integration...
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Complicated, Confusing EHRs Pose Serious Patient Safety Threats
Sabriya Rice | Modern Healthcare | June 20, 2014
Confusing displays, improperly configured software, upgrade glitches and systems failing to speak to one another—those are just a few electronic health record-related events that put patients in danger, according to a new study.
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Composable Software, Collaborative Development, and the CareWeb Framework
By Douglas K. Martin, MD | November 10, 2014
The CareWeb Framework (CWF) enables the software developer to build complex, richly interactive, web-based applications in a modular fashion...The CWF has been used as the basis for a complete EHR and CPOE system and has been ported to several open source EHRs, including OpenMRS, VistA, and RPMS. The CWF is open source software built upon open source software. Read More »
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Computational Thinking in Healthcare
By Kim Bellard | April 5, 2017
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Congressman Promotes Western NY Tech Economy
Anthony Brino | Government Health IT | December 20, 2012
While most of Washington D.C. is engulfed in fiscal cliff negotiations, Congressman Brian Higgins, a Democrat from western New York, is urging lawmakers to support wider use of electronic health records and is also touting his home region’s somewhat bustling health IT economy. Read More »
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Connect for Care
Karen B. DeSalvo, | Health IT Buzz | December 11, 2015
On Tuesday, I spoke at the Bipartisan Policy Center about our vision for the near future where electronic health information is unlocked and securely accessible to achieve better care, smarter spending, and healthier people.It was inspiring to see so many of our partners in the health IT community come together to talk about a future where we have a learning, connected health care system that leverages technology just as well and just as easily as the latest apps we all have on our phones for hailing a ride or paying our bills...
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Connectathon To Focus On Certification Testing For HIT Security And Interoperability
Patty Enrado | Government Health IT | January 11, 2013
When participants of the 2013 North American Connectathon gather at the Hyatt Regency Chicago from January 28 through February 4, they will have the opportunity to test their products under a new certification program that ensures their wares are secure and interoperable with other health IT solutions. Read More »
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Connecting Patient Data Solving Healthcare Interoperability and the ONC Blockchain Challenge
Peter B. Nichol | CIO | August 24, 2016
Interoperability is an old concept dating back to the eighth century BC. Society has been struggling for centuries with the idea of combining individual parts or components to create a whole unit. However, interoperability with healthcare only came about in published works 23 years ago, in 1993. More recently, in 2013, HIMSS defined of healthcare interoperability as “the ability of different information technology systems and software applications to communicate, exchange data and use the information that has been exchanged”...
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Considering An Epic Journey In 2013? Think Twice
Edmund Billings | Medsphere | December 6, 2012
Faced with healthcare reform and any number of other enduring challenges, hospitals shouldn’t expect next year to be any easier than the one that’s currently winding down. Yes, that’s my grand prognostication for 2013—things will still be difficult. Read More »
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Consumer Health IT Summit - Government As Catalyst
Brian Ahier | Government Health IT | September 13, 2012
Kicking off National Health IT Week the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in conjunction with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) hosted the second Consumer Health IT Summit on Monday, September 10, 2012. Read More »
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Consumer-Driven Health Plan Members More Likely To Use Health Apps
Jonah Comstock | Mobi Health News | January 2, 2013
A new report from the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) suggests that not only are people who are enrolled in consumer-driven health plans more cost conscious, but they’re also more engaged with mobile health and digital health tools. Read More »
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Continua Developer Tools Now Available
Press Release |
Continua Health Alliance |
June 4, 2013
Continua Health Alliance today announced it has published four primary components on Open Health Tools, the Open Source clearinghouse for health IT projects. Continua has also created a Developer Resources area on its website to promote public access... Read More »
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Continua Health Alliance Announces Changes To Board Of Directors
Press Release |
Continua Health Alliance |
October 25, 2012
Continua Health Alliance today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed two new members, effective August 2012, to serve a one year term. [...] Continua is the international industry organization dedicated to advancing personal connected health by promoting end-to-end, plug-and-play connectivity of personal health devices and establishing industry standards for interoperability. Read More »
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