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• Open Source EHR – VA Awards $4.9M Contract

  The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded Ray Group International of Tampa, Fla., a $4.9 million contract to support the open source community that is contributing software code to the VA and Defense Department integrated electronic health record system. RGI, a...

  • Posted June 26, 2012
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• Watch – Syncing Healthcare Database To Mobile Phone

  Watch an interesting video demonstration that shows how live medical data can be collected on a medical device, stored in a local database, synchronized to a master database and furthermore propagated to a mobile phone (Android) application....

  • Posted June 26, 2012
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• NHS Launches Patient Reminder Service

  While I was reviewing daily healthcare news, I came across this article about a patient reminder service in Scotland.  I assumed this reminder service was an automated solution integrating some Healthcare or Medical IT System with SMS...

  • Posted June 25, 2012
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• Legacy Apps 60% Cheaper To Run In The Cloud

  Virtustream wants to move mission-critical legacy apps to the cloud where they’ll be 60% cheaper to run on-demand especially since they won’t have to be rewritten. As far as cloud computing in healthcare, I would imagine this...

  • Posted June 24, 2012
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• “Mobile Will Revolutionize Healthcare”…Really?

  I’ve been reading a lot of articles lately about how mobile will ‘revolutionize’ healthcare.  Mobile has been around for quite some time, so it seems to me the revolution has come and gone.  There is so much...

  • Posted June 24, 2012
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• PACS Needs To Get Smart

  PACS Needs To Get Smart is the title of the a DOTmed article.  The article focuses on a discussion with Dr. Eliot Siegel, who’s an early pioneer of digital image technology and the implementation of PACS at the VA Medical...

  • Posted June 23, 2012
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• Cloud Failures Cost Millions Of Dollars

  As of late many pundits have been professing the benefits of cloud computing such as; reduced capital equipment purchase, scale ability, reduced management costs and having fixed costs. The International Working Group on Cloud Computing Resiliency has reported, total...

  • Posted June 21, 2012
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• Why Healthcare IT Systems Integrate Poorly

  Here is a great article from O’Reilly.  He makes several points and explains several reasons why there are so many issues in healthcare IT system integrations. There seems to be a perception that has been perpetuated by...

  • Posted June 20, 2012
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• Remote Monitoring May Save Up To $197 Billion

  A HealthTech article mentioned that remote monitoring devices have been around for several years, though for the most part they’ve only been used at home by those with chronic illnesses to keep them safe and out of...

  • Posted June 20, 2012
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• Podcast – Cloud Computing and Healthcare

  Interesting podcast sponsored by Intel.  The podcast was presented by GroupWare and they discussed the differences between Public and Private clouds and well as discussing the future of cloud computing.  The idea of a ‘Community Cloud’ is...

  • Posted June 19, 2012
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