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HIMSS takes over mHealth Summit
February 16, 2012 | Eric Wicklund
With HIMSS12 next week, the organization announced on Thursday that it is subsuming the budding mHealth Summit.
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ONC kicks off app contest to give disabled patients access to EHRs
February 14, 2012 | Bernie Monegain
As HIT is not always as accessible for people with disabilities as it is for others, ONC is offering $60,000 grand prize for the best mobile application to address that problem.
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Sen. Udall drafting bill to kill telemedicine barriers
February 2, 2012 | Mary Mosquera
Legislation is needed to streamline medical license portability among states to accelerate telemedicine in the absence of market changes.
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Minnesota: A shining star for health IT
February 2, 2012 | Mike Miliard
Often considered the healthiest state, Minnesota began harnessing HIT to bridge private and public health years before the HITECH Act. It's building on that EHR foundation for health information exchange, and is also currently cultivating a new crop of HIT professionals: informaticians.
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3 Beacon communities to kick off Txt4health
January 27, 2012 | Eric Wicklund
Text-messaging program to help participants assess diabetes risk, manage health, connect with care resources.
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ONC reveals mobile data best practice initiative
January 26, 2012 | Eric Wicklund
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT announced Privacy & Security Mobile Device Project, and said it intends to "bring awareness and understanding" of mobile security issues to the clinical sector.
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IOM, NEA kick off health crowdsourcing contest
January 25, 2012 | Bernie Monegain
"Go Viral to Improve Health" challenge aims to tap students with $18,000 in prizes for creating mobile apps based on health data.
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Wish list 2012: Top 10 HIT changes for the year ahead
January 24, 2012 | Michelle McNickle
Wendy Whittington, CMO of Anthelio Healthcare kicks off her wish list with the hope for a great emphasis, among the private sector and government alike, on ONCs Federal Health IT Plan.
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OHN's 12 health IT best practices, part 3: Stategic checklist for connectivity
January 9, 2012 |
Brian Ahier
Kim Lamb
Reliable, high-speed bandwidth is a foundation of health information exchange. The Oregon Health Network, an FCC Rural Healthcare Pilot Program, shares five how-tos of building connectivity needs into an overall HIT strategy.
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A word about healthcare in Iowa: Rural
January 3, 2012 | Tom Sullivan
Half of all Iowans live in areas considered rural and that presents a handful of care delivery challenges.
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The telehealth year in review
December 29, 2011 | Government Health IT Staff
Even just five years into the future, 2011 might be considered the watershed year for telehealth technologies and practices, thanks largely to a fistful of developments, federally-funded and otherwise.
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Blues back ONC patient engagement HIT efforts
December 27, 2011 | Diana Manos
Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association offers new proposal to fundamentally transform the healthcare system.
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Best Practices to Deploy ECM Technologies: Ensure Decisions are Made Based on all the Information, not a Portion of it
October 11, 2011 | On Demand Webinars
In this Web seminar, learn firsthand from five healthcare organizations how, after integrating Perceptive Software enterprise content management (ECM) products, they are realizing cost and time-saving benefits enterprise-wide. The customer panel will share lessons learned and best practices for deploying ECM technology with their business and health information systems.
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Best Practices for the Implementation of Telepresence in a Telehealth Solution
June 29, 2011 | On Demand Webinars
Join Michael Young, director of Telemedicine at the University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, as he shares best practices in implementing telepresence as part of the telehealth solution.
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Editor's Desk: This Week in Government Health IT
December 30, 2011 | Tom Sullivan
No rest this season in the federal hit realm as CMS and OIG talk ACOs, fraud. A flurry of reflections, predictions, reasons EHRs need to mature, and the top mobile searches of 2011.
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Editor's Desk: This Week in Government Health IT
December 8, 2011 | Tom Sullivan
Would you trust Costco and Wal-Mart with your medical records? Why mhealth is a financially-fertile good place to be right now, a bit of welcome relief in the MLR, and the potential for a health 'data spill' that would be worse than what BP did in the Gulf.
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Who moved my cheese ... err ... MC4?
December 6, 2011 | Lt. Col. William E. Geesey
A look at the Army's Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care unit's role in the hand-off taking place in Afghanistan and Kuwait.
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The Military Medical Technologies Month that was
December 1, 2011 | Lt. Col. William E. Geesey
A look at what MC4 and some of its partners are undertaking to bring the best of science and technology to medics and soldiers in theater.
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EMRs gone in 60 seconds
October 18, 2011 | Lt. Col. William E. Geesey
Recounting an exercise in which medics tested handhelds against tablets for documenting patient care downrange. Hint: Android devices were popular, but posed some problems.
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MU stakeholders push quality over process
October 14, 2011 | Jeff Rowe
Yesterday we highlighted testimony from a recent meeting of ONC’s Meaningful Use working group in which stakeholders described the difficulties some providers are having meeting the MU requirements.
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Editor's Desk: This Week in Government Health IT
October 13, 2011 | Tom Sullivan
Occupy Wall Street and healthcare, sustainable HIEs, beginning your EMR journey, telesurgery, SOA, ICD-10. It's all in here.
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MC4: Shout out for voice recognition software
September 28, 2011 | Lt. Col. William E. Geesey
Encouraging deployed medical staff to use voice recognition tools, the Army's MC4 unit makes new training and support resources available.
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Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes
September 21, 2011 | Tom Sullivan
ICD-10’s confusing cost estimates, EHRs to become more ‘patient consent’ friendly, the first of 12 best practices for HIT, and more.
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Ready for NIE round 2
September 19, 2011 | Lt. Col. William E. Geesey
MC4 is planning a telehealth demonstration at the upcoming Network Integration Evaluation evaluation to show how information can arrive before patients at the next level of care.
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Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes
September 8, 2011 | Tom Sullivan
This Week in Government Health IT: The imminent anniversary of 9/11 is raising a lot of questions. Are they the right ones to be asking?
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Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes
June 16, 2011 | Tom Sullivan
This Week in Government Health IT
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