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Athenahealth CEO's Book: 'Where Does It Hurt?'
To fix US healthcare, we must embrace the free market messiness of the Internet economy, argues Athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush.
As Research Data Balloons, How To Share?
Exchanging research data worldwide gets more complex in the big data age. But the Research Data Alliance seeks innovative solutions.
Cloud, Analytics Improve Breast Cancer Screening Education
MammaCare training company teams with CapGemini on cloud system that gets examination expertise into the hands of doctors and nurses who perform manual breast exams.
Firefox 29 Debuts, With Mozilla In Turmoil
Mozilla has delivered a solid, customizable Firefox update, but the company must now restore its relevance.
TIBCO Shakes Up BI Market With Jaspersoft Buy
Pairing open source Jaspersoft with top-selling Spotfire, TIBCO hopes to disrupt the business intelligence and embedded analytics market.
Nurse Retention Rate Improvement Secret: Analytics
Predictive talent analytics and big data software help Tenet Healthcare reduce nurse turnover by 44%.
First Hospitals Achieve Meaningful Use Stage 2
Penn Highlands CIO Tom Johnson says going far beyond minimum requirements is the key to qualifying for EHR incentives.
HCSC Security Chief's Secret To Longevity
Ray Biondo has served as chief information security officer for nine years at insurance giant Health Care Service Corp., something of a record. He credits users and execs willing to collaborate on risk management.
Healthcare Social Networks: New Choices For Doctors, Patients
Check out healthcare-focused social networks, where healthcare pros can collaborate and share resources online, and patients can access more than information.
Google Self-Driving Cars Get Smarter
Google admits it still has many problems to solve before self-driving cars become commonplace on our streets.
Microsoft: No IE Patch For Windows XP
Hackers are already exploiting a new Internet Explorer flaw. Microsoft promises a fix -- but not for Windows XP.
Marathon Bombing Lessons: Boston Hospital Revamps Information Systems
Brigham & Women's emergency department leaders describe how they corrected system deficiencies revealed by the 2013 crisis.
Oregon Dumps Failed Health Insurance Exchange
Oregon's troubled health insurance exchange votes to close down state website and send customers to the federal HealthCare.gov website.
ICD-10 Remains High Priority Despite Delay
Healthcare organizations steam ahead with ICD-10 preparations, including hiring, despite delay of the new diagnosis and billing codes for at least a year.
Adobe, Apple, Google, Intel Settle No-Poaching Lawsuit
More than 64,000 tech workers can look forward to token compensation for claims that major tech vendors conspired to suppress employee pay by agreeing not to recruit workers from one another.
Physicians Find Security In The Cloud
Healthcare practices are increasingly partnering with trusted cloud service providers to provide enhanced data security along with improved efficiency of IT operations.
Healthcare IT: Public Sector Gains Momentum
Government health IT leaders are working more closely with the private sector and making greater use of commercial off-the-shelf technology to improve the quality, delivery, and interoperability of services.
Data Governance Required For Healthcare Data Warehouse
Before implementing its ambitious data warehouse, OhioHealth focused on data governance to ensure data is accurate, clean, and usable.
Genomics Startup Learns From 23andme's Troubles
BaseHealth's Genophen service wants to reach consumers (through their doctors) with strategies for "modifiable risks" -- a more FDA-friendly approach.
EHR Jobs Boom: 8 Hot Health IT Roles
Electronic health records have fueled a growing career specialty. Consider these in-demand health IT jobs.
Health Systems First To Combine Radiology, EHR
The shared pediatric diagnostic imaging system that Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and New Jersey's Virtua have created goes beyond conventional health information exchange.
Doctors Doping: What Can Tech Do?
It's estimated 100,000 healthcare professionals abuse prescription drugs, endangering patients and hospitals. Video, bar coding, and even robots could bring the number down.
No-Poaching Settlement Could Spur Tech Talent War
Adobe, Apple, Google, and Intel reportedly close to settling a lawsuit over agreements not to recruit each other's employees. Tech pros could benefit from more open market.
Self-Service Tech Support Answers Health Insurer's Call
Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Kansas City added customer engagement software to answer members' questions without hiring more call center staff.
ICD-10 Delay: What's Next For Healthcare Organizations?
Healthcare organizations have at least four options for dealing with the delayed implementation of new diagnostic codes.
Wearables, Drones Scare Americans
Google has some public relations to do. People remain wary of tech breakthroughs including care-giving robots and drones, Pew research finds.
Can Crowdsourcing Beat Dr. House?
Startup CrowdMed uses a mix of prediction market software, crowdsourcing, and gamification to help patients gain insight from hundreds of medical detectives.
Nuance Adds Radiology Image Sharing To Healthcare Cloud
Medical image-sharing service aims to tap Nuance's customer base for voice-powered medical documentation technology.
Telehealth Gains Momentum In Obamacare Era
The Affordable Care Act's focus on population health and cost-cutting is encouraging providers and insurers to invest in remote healthcare technologies.
Analytics Enhance Community Health Reporting
Partnership between Premier and University of North Carolina Charlotte improves nonprofit hospitals community health needs assessment process.
Zebra Buys Motorola's Enterprise Business, Eyes Healthcare IoT
Acquisition underscores Zebra's expectation of strong demand for Internet of Things technologies from healthcare, retail, manufacturing, and other industries.
Accountable Care Success Requires Strong Health IT
The accountable care organization model has produced mixed results to date. In ACO success stories, technologies such as analytics play a big role.
ICD-10 Delay: Politics Trump Health Data Quality
With a fresh delay for ICD-10 compliance, US healthcare providers and patients remain trapped in debate. Is higher quality clinical data worth the cost of more detailed data collection?
Top 10 Upsides To Healthcare.gov Debacle
You didn't know there was a bright side to the botched rollout of the Obamacare website? Get your snark on.
Could Insurance Cover Your Next Fitness Band?
Consumers will sport almost 112 million wearables by 2018 -- most of them gadgets that track health-related metrics. Insurers have incentives to help the trend along.
Doctors Learn To Give Up Faxes
Here's how one accountable care organization improved patient follow-up rates by saying goodbye to faxing and hello to a smartphone app for doctors.
Amazon Plans 3D Phone: Report
Amazon phone capable of displaying images in three dimensions could ship this fall.
Google Glass Goes Public
Google Glass Explorer Program will be open to US-based adults on tax day.
Kathleen Sebelius: Failed IT Project Manager?
Sebelius didn't write the code for HealthCare.gov, but she is paying the price for failing to oversee those who did.
MapR Brings Spark In-Memory Analysis To Hadoop
MapR adds Apache Spark to its Hadoop distribution to power machine learning plus ad hoc, graph, and streaming analysis. Databricks partners on support.
Quest Opens Direct Access To Lab Results
Quest Diagnostics capitalizes on regulatory change and gives patients access to their own lab results on the web and mobile devices, boosting its own EHR software in the process.
Senior Living Community Goes Wireless
Brookdale Senior Living makes mobile technologies central to how it delivers medical and assisted living services to its residents.
Explorys Cloud Services Power Accountable Care Organizations
Explorys uses combination of big data and specific patient data to improve care, lower costs.
Google Glass For Parkinson's: 10 Findings
Google Glass offers more health benefits than awkwardness, Parkinson's patients in UK study find.
Internet Of Things Demands Open Standards
IoT will shift the focus from technology to ideas -- if we get integration right. Heterogeneous System Architecture is a step in that direction.
ICD-10 Delay Makes Healthcare Leaders Juggle
Healthcare organizations scramble to revise projects and maintain momentum after ICD-10 delay to 2015, says Deloitte's healthcare practice expert Christine Armstrong.
iOS Brings Better Control To Hearing Aids
Starkey Hearing Technologies turns an iPhone into a remote control for its wireless hearing aids.
Healthcare In 2014: Innovate Or Be Left Behind
Alongside serious disruption to healthcare business models in 2014, four significant trends will emerge for healthcare leaders.
Google Glass Gets Down To Business
Google's new Glass at Work program aims to capitalize on the enterprise's interest in Google Glass, even if consumers are still skeptical.
Nurses Say Pagers Must Go; Hospitals Drag Feet
Nurses and other healthcare workers who communicate vital patient information say they need an alternative to outdated pagers and insecure smartphones.
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