Publication: HealthCareIT News

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated 17 hours ago - 1 reports

Threat matrix: Malware and hacking pose dangers to medical devices

The scene from the Showtime series Homeland is tough to watch: The Vice President of the United States, dying slowly as his heart beats faster. His pacemaker – a delicate implanted device, accessed and altered from some distant computer by a terrorist ... [Published HealthCareIT News - May 24 2013]

Entities: Computer Hacking, Medical Devices, Malware

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

Voice IT could improve diabetes safety

A new study, funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality , suggests that follow-up calls to diabetes patients using interactive voice recognition technology could show promise in identifying safety triggers.Big data: Noneread more ... [Published HealthCareIT News - May 24 2013]

Entities: Diabetes, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Voice Recognition

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

US Department of Health

Medicaid IT problems plague N.C.

The North Carolina State Auditor has found several problems with the state Department of Health and Human Services’ implementation of a new Medicaid information management system, such as security and testing verifications.Big data: Noneread more ... [Published HealthCareIT News - May 24 2013]

Entities: Medicaid, US Department of Health, Big Data

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

Office of Management and Budget

Rural health IT grants get look over

An information collection request for the Rural Health Information Technology Network Development Program, which aims to financially support health IT adoption in rural or underserved areas, has been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget for ... [Published HealthCareIT News - May 24 2013]

Entities: Office of Management and Budget, Big Data, Information Technology

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

Grants aim to boost Massachusetts HIE

The Massachusetts eHealth Institute at the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative has launched a $1.5 million Mass HIway Vendor Interface Grant Program . The gants will fund projects that advance the interoperability of electronic health records in the ... [Published HealthCareIT News - May 24 2013]

Entities: Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, e-health, Interoperability

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

Google Inc

Is the End of Search the Beginning of Personalized Prevention?

This past week, Google had its annual developers conference, Google I/O. One of the more provocative talks, called “The End of Search as We Know It,” was by Amit Singhal, who is in charge of search for Google.Big data: Noneread more ... [Published HealthCareIT News - May 24 2013]

Entities: Google Inc, Amit Singhal, Know IT AB

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

Canadian clinic makes personal health data available to patients

The Amari Medical Clinic and Integrated Health Centre in Surrey, B.C. has tapped Cloud Practice Inc., to make test results, appointments, and healthcare states available to patients. Patients will be able to integrate their health data with their mobile ... [Published HealthCareIT News - May 23 2013]

Entities: Patient, Big Data, Appointment

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

Mobile Pharma BizTech Conference 2013

This June 25-26, 2013, learn from leading mobile experts, from both pharma and outside industries, who are committed to making mobile a driving force for customer acquisition and consumer engagement in pharma. Join hundreds of top mobile pharma leaders ... [Published HealthCareIT News - May 24 2013]

Entities: Acquisition

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Flow management boosts patient care

City Health Care Partnership CIC (CHCP CIC) has implemented a patient flow management solution by Cayder to enable healthcare providers to manage patient care more effectively. Providers at CHCP CIC will be able to spend less time on administrative tasks ... [Published HealthCareIT News - May 23 2013]

Entities: Health Care, Big Data, Patient

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Intermountain measures total radiation

Intermountain Heathcare has launched a program that measures cumulative radiation doses patients receive over their liferime for medical treatment. Intermountain hospitals and clinics are first in the country to compile the cumulative radiation patients ... [Published HealthCareIT News - May 23 2013]

Entities: Radiation, Patient, Big Data

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

9 'Cs,' part 2: The 'back-end'

Much of healthcare reform involves changing the relationship between providers and patients. But for providers, efforts to deliver more accountable care necessarily involves changing the way they manage their practices and keep abreast of near-constant ... [Published HealthCareIT News - May 23 2013]

Entities: Big Data, Health Care, Patient

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Mostashari: Beacons 'taught us'

The Beacon Communities proved that organizations can advocate changes to how healthcare is paid for by working with payers and providers, while improving quality and safety at the same time — lessons learned locally but applicable to the entire nation, ... [Published HealthCareIT News - May 23 2013]

Entities: Communities, Big Data, Advocate

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...was the case made in a Tuesday afternoon session at the American Telemedicine Association's 18 th Annual International Meeting & Trade Show titled "The Tele-ICU: How to Communicate, Compare and Evaluate Models of Care, Technology and Value?"

Tele-ICU comes of age [Published HealthCareIT News - May 09 2013]

The mission, should we choose to accept it: "We've got to figure out how to do more for less."

ATA keynote: 'Not a technology problem' [Published HealthCareIT News - May 07 2013]

"This is an incredible time for healthcare, and we need to look at it from within a specific framework in terms of the dollars and cents of it."

ATA explores business of telemedicine [Published HealthCareIT News - May 06 2013]

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Grants aim to boost Massachusetts HIE [Published HealthCareIT News - May 24 2013]
Medicaid IT problems plague N.C. [Published HealthCareIT News - May 24 2013]
Threat matrix: Malware and hacking pose dangers... [Published HealthCareIT News - May 24 2013]
Rural health IT grants get look over [Published HealthCareIT News - May 24 2013]
Voice IT could improve diabetes safety [Published HealthCareIT News - May 24 2013]
Is the End of Search the Beginning of Personali... [Published HealthCareIT News - May 24 2013]
Mobile Pharma BizTech Conference 2013 [Published HealthCareIT News - May 24 2013]
Canadian clinic makes personal health data avai... [Published HealthCareIT News - May 23 2013]
Flow management boosts patient care [Published HealthCareIT News - May 23 2013]
9 'Cs,' part 2: The 'back-end' [Published HealthCareIT News - May 23 2013]
Mostashari: Beacons 'taught us' [Published HealthCareIT News - May 23 2013]
Intermountain measures total radiation [Published HealthCareIT News - May 23 2013]
DoD to go to market for its EHR [Published HealthCareIT News - May 22 2013]
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