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• Fitbit accelerometer to track postsurgical patients

  A $100 wireless accelerometer from Fitbit — normally used by healthy people to measure their daily exercise progress — could revolutionize hospital care and perhaps post-acute care as well. In a paper published in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, researchers at...

  • Posted September 19, 2013
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• There’s mHealth in the new iPhone 5 S

  Lost in all the ho-hum reviews of the new iPhone 5S this week is an addition that could boost its value as an mHealth device. The new version of the iPhone includes a M7 “motion coprocessor,” a second processor that gathers...

  • Posted September 18, 2013
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• Verizon Report: Top Spots For Criminal Healthcare Data Breaches

  Verizon is back with another of their amazing Data Breach Investigation Reports. Each year, Verizon studies the scope of data breaches in a variety of industries and summarizes the results in one of their Data Breach Investigation Reports....

  • Posted September 10, 2013
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• Why Home Grown EHRs May Be The Way To Go

  Cloud computing and some of the larger EHR systems dominate a lot of discussions in Healthcare IT.  However bigger and well know doesn’t always mean better. Some hospitals are opting to develop their own in-house systems and...

  • Posted September 9, 2013
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• Healthcare IT Market Overview

  Healthcare IT Market by (Application, Delivery Mode & Component) Worth $56.7 Billion by 2017 – New Report by MarketsandMarkets  The “Healthcare IT Market By Application Provider IT (EMR, PACS, CPOE, RIS, CDSS, RCM, Claims Management, Payroll), Payer...

  • Posted September 2, 2013
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• Healthcare vendor’s security issue allowed Google to index patient data

  The protected health information of some 32,000 patients across 48 states has been compromised after a health IT vendor’s firewall was down for more than a month, allowing, in some cases, for patient data to be indexed...

  • Posted August 9, 2013
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• Obamacare months behind in testing IT data security

  The federal government is months behind in testing data security for the main pillar of Obamacare: allowing Americans to buy health insurance on state exchanges due to open by October 1 The missed deadlines have pushed the government’s decision...

  • Posted August 8, 2013
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• Medical Devices Can Be Hacked FDA Warns

  Hackers gaining access to medical devices is a real threat.  In the television series Homeland some of you may have seen how a terrorist hacker gained access to the Vice President’s pace maker. As outrageous as that...

  • Posted August 7, 2013
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• Napier partners with Microsoft to launchCloud-Based Hospital Management Solutions

  Partnership will help hospitals attain excellence in operations whilst embracing cloud computing that provides flexibility and enables quicker adoption of Hospital Information System (HIS). INGAPORE, July 31, 2013 – Napier Healthcare Solutions (www.napierhealthcare.com), a leading healthcare software provider, today...

  • Posted July 31, 2013
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• mHealth and Apple Products Making a Difference

  I don’t usually plug individual products, however I think Apple does a great job showing the impact of mHealth and mobile applications.  Although this is an Apple video, it very well could have been a video by...

  • Posted June 16, 2013
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