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Trove Of Medical Devices Found To Have Password Problems

John Fontana | ZDNet | June 17, 2013

Surgical devices, ventilators, defibrillators, and monitors are among the equipment at risk. Read More »

Use of iPad & Mobile EHR Apps Skyrocket According to Black Book Survey

Jennifer Bresnick | EHR Intelligence | May 30, 2013

2013 isn’t just the year of EHR replacement: it’s the year of anywhere, anytime access to EHRs through iPads, smartphones, and other mobile devices, according to new survey data released by Black Book Market Research. Read More »

Vendor Tapped without Competition for Key Parts of Defense-VA Pharmacy System

Bob Brewin | Nextgov | June 5, 2012

Buried deep in an ostensibly competitive new procurement for the pharmacy information system to serve the Veterans Affairs and Defense departments’ integrated electronic health record is the fact that VA already has selected a vendor to provide key components of what will become the largest pharmacy management system in the world.

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Walgreen, UnitedHealth, Epic Form Carequality To Share Patient Data

Zina Moukheiber | Forbes | February 24, 2014

How many organizations do we need to facilitate the electronic transfer of patient information from one health care provider to another? A few, it seems. Read More »

Watson Now Open For App Development

Mike Miliard | Healthcare IT News | November 14, 2013

IBM has made its Watson cognitive computing technology available as a cloud-based app development platform, and healthcare vendors are already getting in on the act. Read More »

WEDI's Latest ICD-10 Survey: It's Not Getting Any Prettier

Tom Sullivan | Government Health IT | December 17, 2013

Don't look now but the thought-leading report on ICD-10 readiness determined a digression, at least among survey participants. Read More »

Welcome Xen As A Linux Foundation Collaborative Project

Jim Zemlin | The Linux Foundation | April 14, 2013

Today we’d like to welcome Xen as the newest Linux Foundation Collaborative Project. Read More »

What DThe CommonWell Launch Mean To A Healthcare CIO?

Kyle Murphy | EHR Intelligence | December 12, 2013

Since its initial launch at HIMSS13, the CommonWell Health Alliance has had many in the healthcare industry wondering when its next step toward true interoperability would take place. Speculation came to an end yesterday when the collaboration of health IT vendors announced the first provider sites to go live with its interoperability service. Read More »

What EHR Vendors Need To Know About Applying For Upcoming DoD Demos

Tom Sullivan | Government Health IT | October 8, 2013

Nothing like a tight turnaround on a massive tech and consulting project: The DoD on Friday published a notice — albeit neither solicitation nor RFP — revealing that during the week after next it will hold demonstrations essentially courting the EHR to replace its AHLTA. Oh, yes, and applications are due end of October 9, as in tomorrow. Read More »

What Should Your Replacement EHR, Vendor Have On Offer?

Blair Butterfield | EHR Intelligence | April 24, 2013

If you are a small practice, you may or may not have already tried out an EHR vendor in order to qualify for the meaningful use of certified EHR technology in the EHR Incentive Programs. [...] Now that some time has gone by, you may either be happy with your choice or realizing that your choice did not meet your needs in the way you thought it would. Read More »

What Will Stop The Amazon Cloud Juggernaut?

Jason Bloomberg | Cloud Computing Journal | June 7, 2013

A lethal combination of market forces positions AWS to grow ever larger as they squash competitors like bugs under their sandals Read More »

Where Are Usability Standards For EMRs?

Anne Zieger | EMR & EHR | December 7, 2012

The other day, I was talking with a physician about ambulatory EMRs. ”None of them are any good,” said the doctor, who’s studied EMRs for several years but never invested in one. “I can’t find a single one that I can use.” Read More »

Whose Data Is It Anyway?

John Moore and Rob Tholemeier | The Health Care Blog | November 20, 2013

A common and somewhat unique aspect to EHR vendor contracts is that the EHR vendor lays claim to the data entered into their system. Rob and I, who co-authored this post, have worked in many industries as analysts. Nowhere, in our collective experience, have we seen such a thing. Read More »

Why Apple And Google Can't Sync Right—And Don't Care If You Suffer

Matt Asay | Say Media Inc. | August 30, 2013

There's a mobile ecosystem battle raging, with Apple and Google racing to build end-to-end mobile monopolies. According to VisionMobile, "The triumph of iOS and Android is a testament to the superiority of ecosystems economics over legacy business models." Sadly, this triumph has a casualty, and that casualty is you.