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Humetrix’s ICEBlueButton Wins The Public Vote For Best App And Second Place Award Overall In The Blue Button Co-Design Challenge

Press Release | Humetrix | September 17, 2013

Humetrix, a provider of consumer-centric mobile healthcare applications, and the developer of the multi-award-winning iBlueButton app, today announced that its ICEBlueButton (In Case of Emergency) app has been recognized as the second place winner in the Blue Button Co-Design Challenge. [...] Read More »

Hybrid Clouds Fuel Choices For Health IT

Maureen Kaplan | Healthcare IT News | July 24, 2013

Many healthcare companies are using a range of infrastructure services to meet their changing IT needs. This usually begins with storing data in an in-house data center then moving to collocation in an outsourced data center. Read More »

i2b2 Open Source Software Boosts HIE, Biomedical Research

Anthony Brino | Government Health IT | November 16, 2012

The health informatics software i2b2 — Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside — was started in 2006, and has become something of a building block for several health information networks and research projects in genomics, pharmaceuticals and population health. Read More »

ICSA Labs Is Set To Begin Testing And Certifying Electronic Health Records To Ensure They Comply With Latest Federal Requirements

Press Release | ICSA Labs, Verizon | January 16, 2013

ICSA Labs, an independent division of Verizon, is now officially authorized and accredited to begin certifying electronic health records for the next stage of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Meaningful Use requirements. Read More »

iEHR Time Frame 'Optimistic And Uncertain'

David Perera | FierceGovernmentIT | September 30, 2012

The 4 to 6 years Veterans Affairs Department officials have projected as the time necessary to build out a nationwide integrated electronic health record with the Defense Department is "both optimistic and uncertain," the Government Accountability Office says iEHR officials told them. Read More »

Ignoring the Obvious: Major Health IT Organizations Put Aside Patients

Andy Oram | EMR & HIPAA | November 18, 2016

Frustrated stories from patients as well as health care providers repeatedly underline the importance of making a seismic shift in the storage and control of patient data. The current system leads to inaccessible records, patients who reach nursing homes or other treatment centers without information crucial to their care, excess radiation from repeated tests, massive data breaches that compromise thousands of patients at a time, and–most notably for quality–patients excluded from planning their own care.

A simple solution became available over the past 25 years with the widespread adoption of the Web, and has been rendered even easier by modern Software as a Service (SaaS): storing the entire record over the patient’s lifetime with the patient....

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In Healthcare, Time To Free The Data

Mark Braunstein | InformationWeek Healthcare | November 27, 2013

To justify optimism about healthcare IT, we need to free the data tied up in electronic health records -- and it is happening. Read More »

InterchangeSM By Kaiser Permanente Unleashes The Power Of Digital Health Through Open API

Press Release | Kaiser Permanente | June 3, 2013

Kaiser Permanente announced today the launch of its first application programming interface program, InterchangeSM by Kaiser Permanente. Read More »

Interoperability Inches Ahead For EHRs

Erin McCann | Healthcare IT News | July 10, 2013

A new data liquidity initiative between a Pennsylvania women’s hospital and a nearby obstetrics and gynecology practice have resulted in the interoperability between the groups’ different electronic health record systems, officials announced Tuesday. Read More »

Is HIT Interoperability In The Nature Of Healthcare?

Edmund Billings | Medsphere | February 12, 2013

The proprietary business model makes the vendor the single source of HIT for hospital clients. Complexity and dependence are baked into both solutions and client relationships, creating a “vendor lock” scenario in which changing systems seems almost inconceivable.
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Kaiser Permanente Invites Software Developers To Build Apps

Zina Moukheiber | Forbes | June 3, 2013

Health care giant Kaiser Permanente took small steps today allowing developers to access code to public information residing on its website, through an application programming interface (API). Read More »

King's Rolls Out Wardware

Rebecca Todd | eHealth Insider | March 11, 2013

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has rolled-out an open source nursing observations system, Wardware, to 12 wards. Read More »

Launch Of Connect 4.0 – An HIE Advancement Driven By Federal Collaboration

Lauren Thompson | Health IT Buzz | February 11, 2013

I am excited to announce that today, February 11, 2012, we are releasing CONNECT version 4.0, which supports the current federal IT standards and Meaningful Use Stage 2 core objectives related to the secure electronic exchange of information. Read More »

Markle Foundation Releases Blue Button Video To Show Promise And Potential Of Consumers Access To Their Own Health Information

Press Release | Markle Foundation | September 11, 2012

To help consumers, providers, insurers and other health data holders see how providing the ability for people to download their health records can improve health and health care, the Markle Foundation today released a new video showing the power of blue button technology. Read More »

McMaster Gets $5.8 Million To Improve Electronic Health Records

Joanna Frketich | TheSpec.com | September 13, 2012

McMaster University is getting $5.8 million from the federal government to create a personal health record that will let patients take control of their information and communicate with doctors online — including making appointments. Read More »