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• FREE HL7 Software – HL7 Browser

  Here is some great open source HL7 software at NULE.ORG.  The software is free and it lets your read, validate and send HL7 messages. The software runs on JAVA...

  • Posted June 28, 2012
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• EMRs/EHRs Linked to Fewer Malpractice Claims

  According to an article posted in the USNews, malpractice claims dipped dramatically among Massachusetts physicians after they began using electronic medical records, according to new research, although it’s not...

  • Posted June 27, 2012
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• Failed EMR Project – Vendor Walks Away

  Girard Medical Center, a rural hospital in Kansas which services mainly uninsured patients and the elderly, wanted an electronic medical record system to better share information with its clinic...

  • Posted June 27, 2012
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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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Posted June 21, 2012
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