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• Unintended Safety Problems With EHRs

  A recent article from amednews.com discussed how during a nine week period there were 171 health information technology related problems reported to the ECRI Institute PSO. It was reported...

  • Posted March 19, 2013
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• WARNING: How effective is mHealth?

  mHealth has the potential to reach great masses of people and increase collaboration and the flow of information between patients and healthcare providers.  There have been hundreds of Mobile Health Technology...

  • Posted March 18, 2013
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• A Half Billion Dollars in PACS…Really?

  I found an interesting news release concerning the allocation of some government contracts.  The most notable was for Agfa Healthcare Corp.  Agfa was issued a modification exercising the first option...

  • Posted March 13, 2013
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• FREE Healthcare I.T. Tech Tools

  Hi there. There are lots of great Free Healthcare IT Tools out on the internet, however there are a few essential tools that Healthcare IT professionals need access to....

  • Posted March 9, 2013
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• New Healthcare Data Mining Tool

  A new electronic health record “intelligence platform” used for data mining and developed at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and its parent organization, Partners Healthcare, is being touted as a solution...

  • Posted February 20, 2013
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• Are EMRs Helping or Hurting?

  Since the Meaningful Use incentives kicked off, there has been a flurry of implementations to take advantage of the available government funding.  As of December 2012 approximately 10.3 billion...

  • Posted February 6, 2013
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• Free DICOM Hex Viewer From Sante

  I’m sure a lot of you will be chomping at the bit to download this viewer as soon as possible.  This free DICOM Hex Viewing software from Sante will...

  • Posted January 29, 2013
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• AnyBots Robots For Healthcare

  AnyBots Robots for Healthcare was founded in 2001 and does research and development in the healthcare space.  The AnyBot Robot  has several different sensors for observations, listening, recording and movement....

  • Posted January 21, 2013
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• Over 2.8 Million Patients Remotely Monitored

  According to research analyst firm Berg Insight, in 2012 over 2.8 million people world wide are being monitored remotely.  This is up from 2.2 million a year ago. Berg...

  • Posted January 17, 2013
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• Class Action Lawsuit Targets Allscripts

  A lawsuit filed in Miami-Dade County Circuit Court seeks class action status for doctors who use the MyWay electronic health records (EHR) from Allscripts Healthcare Solutions. Panama City-based Pain...

  • Posted January 15, 2013
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