by Mateusz Mucha. Mateusz is a freelance web application developer from Krakow, Poland. 31 y.o., married, enjoys rock climbing, sailing, skiing and having 6 meals a day. Contact him at muszek@gmail.com This is a short story about Blood Pressure Chart –…
Yesterday Surescripts announced their new Clinical Interoperability Services: Extended Network Connectivity – As a network of networks, Surescripts will support and enable the exchange of all types of clinical messages between EHRs, HIEs and health systems that, today, are not connected with …
The American College of Physicians (ACP) just released a well-reasoned and thorough position paper, The Patient-Centered Medical Home Neighbor: The Interface of the Patient-Centered Medical Home with Specialty/Subspecialty Practices . As I’ve written before, the Big Idea behind ACOs (Accountable Care…
The September issue of Wired magazine and an article in last Sunday’s New York Times illustrate a central debate in technology circles. The debate is not new — it’s being going on for two decades — but it has newfound vibrancy. The essence of the…
by Randy Williams, MD FACC , CEO of Pharos Innovations The results from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-sponsored Tele-HF trial are in, and the findings are worth considering . The results are counter to most of the findings of other studies examining telemonitoring for heart failure and at face…
Remember the penguin problem described by economists? No one moves unless everyone moves, so no one moves. Overcoming the penguin problem has a lot to do with creating expectations. A recent writing by Dr. James O’Connor in Physician Practice expresses a voice from the physician community that I’ve never heard before…
This post was written by Alexandra Drane and the Engage With Grace team. To learn more please go to www.engagewithgrace.org . For three years running now, many of us bloggers have participated in what we’ve called a “blog rally” to promote Engage With Grace – …
Medicare has (finally) recently released a report showing home run results for a disease/care management demonstration project! Evaluation of Medicare Care Management for High Cost Beneficiaries (CMHCB) Demonstration: Massachusetts General Hospital and Massachusetts General Physicians…
Last week PCAST (The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology) issued a major report — “ Realizing the Full Potential of Health Information Technology to …
At the December 13 meeting of the HITPC (Health IT Policy Committee), the MU (Meaningful Use) Workgroup proposed a first draft of HITECH Stage 2 and 3 objectives. A full list of objectives for Stages 1, 2 & 3 is available in the PowerPoint presented to…
Will ACO (accountable care organization) IT models be walled gardens or open platforms? i.e., will ACO IT platforms focus on exchanging information within the provider network of the ACO, or will they also be able to …
A few months ago, Hollywood and a few major record labels banded together. They did this to urge ISPs to disrupt the internet connection for anyone trying to break copyright laws. This means people illegally downloading music or movies. This coming at a time when peer-to-peer file sharing is increasing among kids, and even more [...]
A press release earlier this week announced the new CMS Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. If you went to their Twitter feed today, here’s what you’d see: This struck me as a great …
The Health IT Policy Committee has published proposed Stage 2 and 3 Meaningful Use Recommendations and they’re open for public comment until February 25. I’ll share a couple of particularly useful…
VANDALS are believed to have used a high powered air gun to smash the windows of 10 cars — leaving a family-run car sales business counting the cost. Thousands…
PM Manmohan Singh may wax eloquent that the military will be equipped with “all necessary means to meet all threats”, including those “which go beyond conventional warfare”, but no sense of urgency is being shown in the space arena.
It’s time to accept the fact that the shuttles won’t fly again, experts say.
London, Oct 14 (ANI): A leading neuroscientist has cautioned that overuse of technology, like computer games and Facebook, is extremely dangerous for kids and may lead to temporary
After months of negotiations, software giant Microsoft finally completed its $8.5-billion acquisition of videoconferencing juggernaut Skype this week.
The government plans to encourage expansion of renewable energy sources. -Yomiuri Shimbun/ANN
China has taken on General Electric Co. and Western peers that control the $70 billion wind-turbine market, striving to repeat its 2010 coup when the Asian nation sold more than half the world’s solar panels for the first time.
The PCAST Report on Health IT has become a political piñata. Early Feedback on PCAST Like many of my colleagues, I was taken aback by the release of the Report in early December 2010 — I didn’t know…
Deven McGraw is the Director of the Health Privacy Project at the Center for Democracy & Technology . The Health 2.0 movement has seen incredible growth recently, with new tools and services continuously being…
Webinar Title : An Impending Marriage: Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and Care Management Software The presentation will be geared at practicing clinical case managers in health plans, hospitals, disease management companies, and similar organizations: Describe market forces driving integration of EHRs and care …
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Many Physicians and Clinical Service Providers Will Not Be In Your ACO Contracting Network. Expect Significant Patient Leakage (Migration) Out of Your ACO Network Expect Patient Demands for Sharing Records. Minimize Anti-Trust Concerns. Expect Continuing Government Pressure…
Following the Money: Factors Associated with the Cost of Treating High-Cost Medicare Beneficiaries . Health Services Research; February 9, 2011 Access to the full online article is …
A new ultra-sensitive technology which can monitor leaks from underwater gas pipelines has been developed by scientists in the UK.
Supercomputer specialist Cray has been given $97m to upgrade the US’s most powerful supercomputer, Jaguar, to a new petascale system named Titan that could take the
Scientists and engineers from around the world will gather in the heart of Silicon Valley next week to discuss some of the latest breakthroughs in lasers and optics and their applications to cutting-edge science
ORLANDO – IBM next week plans to unveil software that will allow data to be automatically migrated between storage tiers on an array and between arrays — no matter where they are in
In their article “Exploratory Experimentation and Computation”, to appear in the November 2011 issue of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society, David H. Bailey and
HP increases its share of global PC shipments in the third quarter, while Lenovo surges into the No. 2 spot for the first time–at Dell’s expense.
WASHINGTON — The computer virus that hit the Pentagon’s drone program last month was not directed at the military systems but was common malware used to steal log-ins and passwords used in online gaming, military officials said Wednesday.
COMMENTARY | Apple is set to release the latest version of its operating system for its iPad, iPod Touch and iPhones — iOS 5. With more than 200 new features, Apple’s iOS 5 …
An innovative project aimed at steering more people in Northern Ireland towards electric cars has been unveiled.
BY CAROL SEIFFERLEIN features editor The first of Exelon Wind’s turbines are generating electricity. The company is starting to test the turbines in Michigan Wind 2, which are located in Minden, Delaware and Marion townships, this week. However, Exelon …
BP’s plan for a controversial deep-water oil well off Shetland should be halted by the Government, four of Britain’s biggest green groups said last night.
By Rich Elmore and Arien Malec. Rich Elmore is the Direct Project Communication Workgroup leader and Vice President, Strategic Initiatives at Allscripts. Arien Malec is ONC’s Coordinator, Direct Project and Coordinator, S&I …
Is economic credentialing — the use of economic factors such as loyalty and utilization rates in the physician credentialing process — a potential tool for primary care physicians to lead…
Last May Fred Trotter wrote a brilliant blog post entitled The Power of Push . His essay described the latent power of the Direct Project (known then as NHIN-Direct). At that time, the Direct Project was still…
After attending the largest annual health IT conference of the year — HIMSS 11 – John Moore reported that “nearly every EHR vendor has an iPad App for the EHR [electronic health record], or…
iMedicalApps recently published its list of Top 20 Free iPhone Medical Apps for Healthcare Professionals . What struck me about the list is that the state-of-the-art is stand alone applications — I didn’t see any …
“If banks can exchange funds electronically through the ATM system, why can’t my doctor and hospital exchange information electronically?” Keith Boone’s concise article “A Doctor is Not a Bank ” explains why …
NASA Contractor Shows New Technology
Ithaca — Inside a plastic bottle set on his front counter, Jim Pirko keeps a sprig of hydrilla… – 7:40 pm
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announcedthat Rakon (NZX: RAK) has selected the IBM Storwize V7000 SAN as part of a strategic storage upgrade to meet the needs of its rapidly expanding international quartz crystal manufacturing business. The storage upgrade …
Los Angeles: A stubborn computer virus has reportedly hit the U.S. Nevada control station that remotely pilot U.S. military drone aircraft on missions in Afghanistan and other war zones, Xinhua reported.
WASHINGTON | U.S. President Barack Obama issued an executive order today that strengthens the government’s information and computer security policies and practices to prevent breaches such as the…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. government obtained secret court orders to force Google Inc and a small Internet provider to hand over information from email accounts of a
