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50 Open Source Replacements For Health Care Software

Cynthia Harvey | Datamation | April 26, 2013

According to a recent PricewaterhouseCoopers Study, 79 percent of health care executives anticipate an increase on their technology spending this year. With "Meaningful Use" considerations weighing heavily on the industry, many will be investing in or upgrading their electronic health record (EHR) capabilities. [...] Read More »

About Half of Doctors Say They’re Burned Out by Workload

Shannon Pettypiece | Bloomberg | August 20, 2012

About 1 in 2 doctors are burned out, showing signs of emotional exhaustion and little interest in work as patient loads increase, U.S. researchers found. Read More »

Call For Participation: State And Local Government Study On Open Source Adoption

Deborah Bryant | Bryant Group | October 17, 2013

If you’re a U.S. State or Local technology professional with experience in open source software for your organization, your participation is being sought for a national study. Read More »

Clinovo Case Study: Open Source EDC Unmatched Cost-Efficiency

Staff Writer | Clinovo | August 28, 2012

A worldwide leading technology medical device company was expanding the use of their number one medical device to new therapeutic areas...The sponsor was looking for a way to efficiently manage such large amounts of data while staying on time and on budget... Read More »

Computerization In Health Care Demands High Data Standards

Thomas C. Redman and Donald Nielsen | Harvard Business Review | February 25, 2013

Recent reports bookend the promise and peril of computerization and the electronic medical record in health care. On the truly positive side, the Mayo Clinic and UnitedHealth Group have teamed up to form Optum Labs, a research group aimed at mining (initially) claims records for over 100 million people and 5 million clinical records... Read More »

Continued Growth Challenges Ambulatory EMR Vendor Capacity

Press Release | KLAS | July 18, 2012

Half of purchases in the ambulatory EMR market will come from providers replacing their current vendor; many feel the honeymoon period is over
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Cost Reminders Via CPOE Lead To Fewer Test Orders

Susan D. Hall | FierceHealthIT | April 17, 2013

Displaying the cost of a test via computerized provider order entry systems prompted a 9 percent reduction in the number of tests ordered, according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine. Read More »

Data Points And Dogma

Ed Kilgore | Washington Monthly | May 2, 2013

By now, if you read MSM or conservative web sites, you’ve probably heard that a new randomized study of Medicaid in Oregon (published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine) shows the program has no impact on the health of people receiving it, which, some say, means the program is a worthless waste of money, or that its expansion via Obamacare should be resisted. Read More »

Doctor Burnout: Nearly Half of Physicians Report Symptoms

Janice Lloyd | USA Today | August 20, 2012

A national survey of physicians finds the prevalence of burnout at an "alarming" level, says a study out Monday. Read More »

Doctors Love The iPhone And iPad Even Though Many Electronic Records Systems Don’t

Ryan Faas | Cult of Mac | August 20, 2012

The iPhone is the most popular device among medical professionals, followed by the iPad and then Android smartphones. That’s one of the key findings in a new study that examines the relationship between electronic health records (EHR) systems, mobile technology, and how doctors, nurses, and other healthcare providers use both mobile devices and EHR systems. Read More »

Doctors-In-Training Spend Very Little Time At Patient Bedside, Study Finds

Press Release | Johns Hopkins Medicine | April 23, 2013

Medical interns spend just 12 percent of their time examining and talking with patients, and more than 40 percent of their time behind a computer, according to a new Johns Hopkins study that closely followed first-year residents at Baltimore’s two large academic medical centers. Read More »

Dr. Dustin Ballard: Do Open Doctor Notes Work?

Dustin Ballard | Marin Independent Journal | November 5, 2012

YOUR DOCTOR gives you a measured assessment of your physical condition. The language is just technical enough to be hard to follow, and the recommendations just oblique enough to seem unconvincing. But you wonder, what if my doctor told me what she really thought — that you were sedentary and overweight, for example. Would that improve your health? Is there any way a doc would want to share such an opinion? Read More »

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