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After A Year Of Medical School, IBM's Watson Passes First Milestone
IBM's year-long residency at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Wellpoint is finally producing cognitive computing breakthroughs (and two new products). Read More »
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After Sexual Trauma, Soldiers Search For Better Care, Peace
At least one in five female veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has screened positive for military sexual trauma (MST) once back home, Department of Veterans Affairs records show. And this may understate the crisis, experts say, because this number only counts women who go to the VA for help. Read More »
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Agency Works To Draw Down Costs, Maintain Top Medical Care
The Defense Department’s goal to save medical dollars and deliver the best health care possible has made strides in its first 100 days, the director of the new Defense Health Agency said. Read More »
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Agency Works to Draw Down Costs, Maintain Top Medical Care
The Defense Department’s goal to save medical dollars and deliver the best health care possible has made strides in its first 100 days, the director of the new Defense Health Agency said. Read More »
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Agriculture Department Cultivates Rural Health IT
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced another round of funding earlier this week to develop telemedicine networks across rural America. Read More »
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AHRQ Eyes Quality Improvement Project
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has requested that the Office of Management and Budget approve funding for a new information collecting project aimed at bolstering efficiency and value in hospitals and medical offices. Read More »
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AHRQ's 10 Tips For Creating Consumer HIT
More and more, health IT is expanding from the clinical into the commercial realm. With patient engagement so crucial to the transformation of care delivery, that's a good thing. But some consumer technologies are better than others. Read More »
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AIO Technology To Offer OpenEMRCloud
AIO Technology is now offering OpenEMR as a Cloud service out of its Minneapolis based data center. OpenEMR is an open-source system that is a medical practice management, electronic medical records, prescription writing, and medical billing solution... Read More »
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Aligning EHR Pateint Safety With Meaningful Use
It’s one of the abiding ironies of policymaking that, once the policies are set, things arise that probably should have been thought of before. According to a new article in the New England Journal of Medicine, one of those things, when it comes to EHRs, is patient safety. Read More »
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All Eyes On Jeff Zients, Healthcare.gov's ER Surgeon
To lead a sort of tech worker surge and software code purge for Healthcare.gov, the Obama Administration has brought in a turnaround guy, Jeffrey Zients. Read More »
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Allscripts Sues Epic and New York City’s Public Hospital System
One of the country’s largest providers of electronic medical records has lodged a complaint against New York City’s public hospital system for awarding a $303 million contract to a rival. Read More »
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AMA Applauds Senators' Efforts To Fix EHR Meaningful Use
Physicians are eager to implement EHRs, but overly aggressive timeline could have harmful, unintended consequences Read More »
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AMA Says EHRs Create 'Appalling Catch-22' For Docs - And Just How Many Experts Does It Take To Screw In A Light Bulb, Anyway?
At some point, so-called EHR "experts" and pundits need to stop being accommodated for their having ignored years of warnings, complaints, "anecdotes" -a particularly egregious term that comes from those who don't understand risk management, especially academics of the echo chamber-egghead subspecies (link) - and other signs that health IT is not a beneficent, omniscient gift from the Lords of Kobol. Read More »
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AMA: ICD-10 Costs More Expensive Than Prior Estimates
ICD-10 implementation costs will be more expensive--in some cases more than three times previous cost estimates--for physician practices, according to updated research published Wednesday by the American Medical Association. Read More »
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America Must Improve Its Care For Veterans, Says CNAS Expert
After more than a decade of war, several years of constrained national budgets and a changing veteran population, the second Obama administration must confront how best to uphold its promises to the nation's men and women who serve or have served in uniform. Read More »
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