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Glaser: Healthcare is amid fifth IT revolution

 Tom Sullivan June 12, 2013
The wave of connected microprocessors cresting in many industries is among the factors changing healthcare. John Glaser envisions an industry that looks different from the way it does today.
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New HIE wares tackle coordinated care, population health

 Tom Sullivan March 28, 2013
Corepoint offers a new iteration of its Integration Engine in the same week that Caradigm aligned with Orion to bolsters its health information exchange roster.
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Q&A: On health data 'we can't dream big enough'

 Tom Sullivan March 25, 2013
Pulse8 CEO John Criswell sees plenty of opportunity to harness the information that HIXs and HIEs will have as a means for both bending the cost curve and bettering care quality.
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Exclusive Q&A: The pair behind #EHRbacklash and the Cure Project

 Tom Sullivan March 18, 2013
Bob Brown and Steven Waldren, MD, outline the goals and the need for their joint effort, the Cure Project. The gist: Harness the healthcare community to define what IT functions various care settings need to the benefit of both providers and vendors. Just don't get hung up on what the technologies are called.
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5 findings in ONC HIE research

 Mary Mosquera January 28, 2013
HIE research aims to help with technical and business skills for query-based exchange, push notification and subscription services, provider directories, master data management and consumer engagement.
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VA Blue Button adds patient summary document tool

 Mary Mosquera January 23, 2013
The VA Continuity of Care Document (CCD) uses recognized standards that support patient data exchange between healthcare systems and providers.
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Q&A: Privacy activism in the age of Big Data

 Anthony Brino January 03, 2013
Google knows more about you than your mom, privacy needs to be redefined and HIPAA is a weak baseline, said Deborah Peel, MD, founder of the group Patient Privacy Rights, in an interview on all things privacy and Big Data.
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Windows 8 Could be a Winner in Healthcare

 Brian Ahier December 27, 2012
At the recent Dell World conference I had the opportunity to try out a slew of new Windows 8 devices. I was struck by how many potential healthcare applications this new platform and the mobile devices it has spawned will be available.
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Q&A: Smaller practices reap cost savings from the cloud

 Frank Irving November 29, 2012
PhysBizTech Editor Frank Irving discusses the benefits and challenges of cloud computing for small physician practices with CDW's Jon Karl.
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Five Things You Should Look for in a Cloud Productivity Solution

 Government Health IT Staff November 07, 2012
Adopting the cloud in health is not so much a question of “if” anymore as it is a question of “when”. With all the confusion over the many cloud productivity solutions in the market, how do you align your decision around what matters most to your healthcare organization? The five things you need to know when moving to cloud productivity checklist provides five key considerations health organizations should look for in a cloud solutions provider.
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Northern Ireland health minister touting home projects, pitching to IT firms during Boston visit

 Anthony Brino October 22, 2012
Northern Ireland's health minister will be in Boston with dozens of other European health leaders this week, and he's hoping to build the province's tech reputation and talking of some of his agency's IT and mobile health initiatives.
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Northrop Grumman steering big data analytics toward health agencies

 Tom Sullivan October 08, 2012
The iHAP platform, currently in development, will enable agencies to glean insights from disparate data sources and use scientific and technical metrics with the goal of improving care and lowering costs.
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Checklist for health orgs facing the cloud imperative

 By Dennis Schmuland, MD October 01, 2012
Microsoft's chief health strategy offices outlines the 5 things to look for in a cloud provider, and recommends questions to ask about each.
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PA Beacon enables HIE sans EHR

 Erin McCann August 09, 2012
New data-sharing capability at the Keystone Beacon Community allows clinicians to share information across facilities.
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Orion Health extends reach of North Carolina HIE with direct secure messaging

Industry News Release July 30, 2012
-Orion Health, the leader in health information exchange (HIE) and healthcare integration solutions, and the North Carolina Health Information Exchange (NC HIE), today announced that NC HIE has expanded the reach and capabilities of the statewide HIE with the implementation of Orion Health Direct Secure Messaging, a secure communications network that will provide healthcare organizations throughout the state with an additional means of safely sharing health data between physicians and facilities. The success marks the latest milestone for NC HIE’s development of a robust exchange that connects providers, hospitals and public health departments throughout North Carolina. NC HIE already relies on Orion Health HIE, powered by Orion Health Rhapsody Integration Engine, Clinical Data Repository and Clinical Portal, as the technology backbone for the statewide exchange.
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Top 12 reasons health providers pay too much for IT

 Tom Sullivan July 17, 2012
Despite having so very much to gain, health organizations typically overpay but under-produce when it comes to information technology. Here are a dozen reasons why that is, according to one consultancy paper.
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Kansas Health Information Network launches direct capabilities with more than 2,000 users

 Industry News Release July 17, 2012
Kansas Health Information Network (KHIN) and ICA, a leading provider of interoperability technology that enables care coordination and health information exchange (HIE), announced today that KHIN has launched Direct messaging capabilities for providers in the state of Kansas through Health Information Service Protocol (HISP) transactions.
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PatientOrderSets.com EntryPoint software module achieves significant U.S. "Meaningful Use" certification

Industry News Release June 07, 2012
PatientOrderSets.com is pleased to announce that its EntryPoint software module was certified on May 30th, 2012 under ICSA Labs' ONC-ATCB Electronic Health Record program. The program ensures EntryPoint is compliant in accordance with the criteria adopted by the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services.
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The Challenge of Encrypting BYOD Devices

 John Halamka, MD May 23, 2012
As we continue the journey to protect corporate data that is accessed from personal mobile devices, we're developing increasingly rigorous policies that rebalance individual preferences with corporate compliance requirements.
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Consumer Innovation Challenge

Brian Ahier March 22, 2012
I am privileged to work with the ONC and six different states that are responding to the Consumer Innovation Challenge. The goal of the Challenge is to rapidly create a project that will provide patients with access to their health information within six months.
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