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Doctors And Tech: Who Serves Whom?
Giving physicians more say in how to incorporate technology into their work is good for patients, and the field. If you want to discourage a worker, subject them to policies and procedures that don’t make sense.
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Doctors Should Give Patients Their Damn Data
There are plenty of books out there to teach us how to boldly and proudly advocate for ourselves in the doctor’s office. Doctors have held the reins too long, goes the story, and ignored what patients want and need. [...] Read More »
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Doctors Using Electronic Health Records Provide Higher Quality Healthcare
The use of electronic health records is linked to significantly higher quality care, according to a new study by Lisa Kern and her team, from the Health Information Technology Evaluation Collaborative in the US. Their work appears online in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, published by Springer. Read More »
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DoD and VA Interagency Program Office Awards iEHR System Integration Contract To Systems Made Simple
Systems Made Simple, Inc. (SMS), a leading provider of IT systems and services to support critical architecture, data, and application challenges in the healthcare industry, today announces its contract award to provide management and technical support services for the Integrated Electronic Health Record (iEHR) initiative. Read More »
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DoD Awards Contract For Vendor Neutral Patient Image Archive
The Department of Defense is contracting with the Bloomington, Minnesota-based software and data management firm Acuo Technologies to manage a vendor-neutral patient image archive, in a deal worth $40 million over nine years. Read More »
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DOD Electronic Health Records Help VA Disability Claims
The Defense Department has made troops’ health records electronically available to the Veterans Affairs Department to speed up the adjudication of disability claims, a DOD health information technology official said. Read More »
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DoD Loses Control Of Health IT Budget After Fumbling iEHR
The Pentagon has taken away the Military Health System’s toys after MHS leaders failed to play nice with billions of dollars allotted to developing an integrated EHR with the Department of Veterans Affairs... Read More »
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DoD, VA Reassure Congress Of Continued Growth Of Health Data Sharing
Defense and Veterans Affairs department officials are reassuring House lawmakers that just because they are developing separate electronic health systems, it doesn't mean the two departments aren't sharing electronic health records today and will share even more in the future. Read More »
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DoD/VA iEHR Award Winners Announced
Defense Strategies Institute is pleased to announce the 2013 award winners at the DoD/VA iEHR Summit which took place September 30-October 1 in Washington, DC at the Carnegie Library at Mount Vernon Square. Read More »
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Does Healthcare Need a More Modern Way to Define and Measure EHR Interoperability?
Industry experts and the federal government are divided on the best way to assess the state of the nation’s health IT interoperability. The Office for the National Coordinator for Health IT, for instance, has proposed using CIO surveys to gauge the status of interoperability among and between healthcare organizations. To that end, ONC posted a Request for Information (RFI) on how to best assess interoperability that closed last month — just not before drawing some sharp comments from across the industry...
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Does Healthcare Need a More Modern Way to Define and Measure EHR Interoperability?
KLAS executive vice president Taylor Davis said that measuring interoperability can get messy because the EHR market is currently immature. Industry experts and the federal government are divided on the best way to assess the state of the nation’s health IT interoperability. The Office for the National Coordinator for Health IT, for instance, has proposed using CIO surveys to gauge the status of interoperability among and between healthcare organizations...
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Don’t Expect Defense And VA Health Records To Share Data Anytime Soon
Veterans Affairs Department Chief Information Officer Roger Baker told reporters in a press call on Thursday that officials halted the effort to develop an integrated electronic health record after cost estimates doubled to about $12 billion. He said officials now expect to acquire 50 joint and shared applications, which he estimated will cost between $4 billion and $6 billion. Read More »
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Dorenfest Institute Updates Health IT Data For Government Researchers
The Dorenfest Institute for Health Information Technology, Research and Education, managed by the HIMSS Foundation, the philanthropic arm of HIMSS, has released updated 2010 data from the HIMSS Analytics Database. Read More »
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Dr Kogelnik Wins Award For Business Model With Open Medicine Institute!
As part of Global Entrepreneurship Week, Santa Clara County StartUp Cup held their event finals. From a pool of more than 50 applicants, three were recognized for their businesses models. The first place winner was Open Medicine Institute. Read More »
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Dr. Eric Topol Joins The Wide Open Road Of mHealth As AT&T As Chief Medical Advisor
Last fall Verizon announced FDA approval for their Converged Health Management System, a remote patient monitoring platform to connect doctors with patient vitals using HIPPA level security. Now AT&T is upping the ante, announcing the appointment of Eric Topol, MD as Chief Medical Advisor, in charge of design, development and delivery of the company’s healthcare IT solutions. Read More »
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