The ONC, in collaboration with the CDC, has launched the EHR Innovations for Improving Hypertension Challenge to accelerate improvement on the Million Hearts® “B” strategy – Blood Pressure Control.The goal is to is to gather specific descriptions of health IT tools and approaches used by individual practices to implement an evidence-based blood pressure (BP) treatment protocol that has led to improvement in practice-wide blood pressure control (Phase 1), and identify models for quickly and
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Study: Pediatric Preventive Care Guidelines Need Retooling for EMR Systems
With the increasing use of EMRs and health information exchange, there is a growing demand for a digital version of the preventive care guidelines pediatricians use across the United States. In a new study, researchers from the Indiana University School of Medicine and the Regenstrief Institute report that substantial work lies ahead to convert the American Academy of Pediatrics' Bright Future's guidelines into computerized prompts in the EMR system for physicians, but the payoff has the
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Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Validic for Driving Health Data Interoperability for Customers
Validic, the healthcare industry's leading technology platform for health data interoperability has been recognized by Frost & Sullivan with the 2014 Global Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Award for Customer Value Leadership. This award recognizes Validic’s exemplary focus on enhancing the value its customers receive, including customer service, customer retention and customer base expansion. Validic’s platform addresses the two major challenges in the current connected health ecosystem:
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Accelerating Medical Product Development Through Agile Methods
New ebook from Pathfinder Software addresses how agile development can accelerate medical product development to shorten timelines, reduce risk, and improve quality.
The medical device and diagnostics industries are facing unprecedented challenges: regulatory and reimbursement model changes, dramatic technology changes, increasing technology interdependence, and the rising expectations of physicians and patients. Medical Devices and Diagnostics typically have long development cycles, often 3
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Motorola Unveils Pocket-Sized Barcode Scanner for Hospitals
New pocket-sized barcode scanner for hospitals helps improve patient safety and the patient experience.
Motorola Solutions, Inc. today unveiled the new disinfectant-ready Symbol CS4070-HC wireless handheld Bluetooth® scanner which provides nurses and lab technicians with the ability to scan both 1D and 2D bar codes at the patient bedside to help prevent errors in medication administration and specimen collection. The CS4070-HC bar code scanner can easily pair with in-room computers, laptops,
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Report: Top Remote Patient Management Platforms by Category
Alere Connect, Qualcomm Life, and Preventice are the top three remote patient management platforms, according to ABI Research’s latest “Remote Patient Management Platforms” Competitive Assessment. Remote patient management platforms is the essential link between the patient and the devices monitoring their condition and healthcare providers has been a market that has increasingly drawn the attention of investors and healthcare players. However, development, implimentation, and adoption remains
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Infographic: What’s in the Bag of the Quantified Clinician?
This infographic created by Quantified Care illustrates how mobile health devices are transforming the way clinicians provide care across the continuum of medicine.
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Quantified Care is committed to helping clinicians and their patients learn about and adopt evidence-based mobile medical apps and devices that have the potential to improve quality of care while lowering costs.
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Report: Top 10 Ambulatory Mobile EHRs in 2014
Black Book Rankings has released rankings of the top ambulatory mobile EHR applications in their latest “2014 Top Ranked Virtualized & Native Mobile EHR Applications,” the most recent in a series of Black Book™ strategic industry reports focused on the health technology market. Over 380,000 practice management and physician leaders and others users ranking from hospital executives, clinicians, IT specialists and front-line veterans were invited to participate in the 2014 annual Black Book
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Contract vs. Full-Time Health IT Professional: Who Is The Most Satisfied?
HIT Workforce Engagement survey reveals contract health IT consultants are more satisfied in their jobs than full-time health IT professionals.
Healthcare IT Leaders, a consulting and staff augmentation firm that connects hospitals and health systems with top healthcare IT talent, today released the results of its first HIT Workforce Engagement survey examining job satisfaction and career motivations for healthcare IT professionals.
Based on responses from 446 HIT workers, the report
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HealthUnlocked, UK’S Largest Social Network for Health, Expands to the US
HealthUnlocked, the leading social network for health related information in the UK, today announces its official launch in the U.S. The digital health company, founded in 2010 by CEO Jorge Armanet and Chief Medical Officer Dr Matt Jameson Evans, is one of the fastest growing startups in the UK health tech sector, growing exponentially since 2011 and last month received three million site visits. HealthUnlocked already provides NHS Choices’ user-generated, interactive content via the
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