A day after breaking an almost year-long silence on a medical condition that had affected the way he speaks, Google co-founder Larry Page said Wednesday that people should be more open about their medical histories. "I just disclosed ...
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Australia shoppers chasing bargains have a new tool - each other. Shopping aggregation site Lasoo has updated its app so that consumers can crowdsource the best price, location and availability by sharing barcode data scanned by their ...
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It's not a Star Trek tricorder, but by hooking a variety of gadgets onto a smartphone you can almost get a complete physical - without the paper gown or even a visit to the doctor's office. Blood pressure? Just plug the arm cuff into the ...
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The U.S. healthcare industry is facing an even more significant IT worker shortage than previously thought, and that shortage is slowing efforts to roll out electronic health systems. A new analysis by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Health ...
While electronic medical records (EMR) may contain your health information, most physicians think you should only be able to add information to them, not get access to all of their contents. A survey released this week at the HIMSS ...
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Under pressure from federal regulators to implement electronic health systems, healthcare providers are struggling to find and keep a technology staff in what is the fastest growing IT sector in the U.S. A Healthcare Information and ...
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The likes of Samsung, Apple, Nokia and RIM should be wary of firms that hold patents on technologies designed to exploit the use of 4G speeds, a lawyer has warned. John-Paul Rooney (pictured), partner and patent attorney at intellectual ...
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The agency responsible for administering the federal program for electronic health records (EHRs) said it plans to address the complaints healthcare providers are making about the implementation process. Additionally, an important ...
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Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has declared that "the NHS cannot be the last man standing as the rest of the economy embraces the technology revolution". Expert predicts government NHS data-sharing plans spell end for patient privacy NHS ...
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Major physician and healthcare IT management groups are concerned about the U.S. government's timeline and process for rolling out the final phase of electronic health records (EHRs). The American Medical Association (AMA) and the College ...
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The Office of the National Coordinator for Healthcare IT has published the final set of criteria that healthcare providers must meet in order to demonstrate that they have reached Stage 2 of "meaningful use" of electronic health records ...
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Computerworld - The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has dispensed more than $7.7B in reimbursement payments to more than 307,000 healthcare professionals and 4,000 hospitals deploying electronic health records (EHRs). ...
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Based in Singapore, Vish Iyer is president, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)-Asia Pacific, where he is responsible for managing TCS operations across five geographies and 13 countries in the region. Recently, he had a freewheeling ...
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Klinikum Wels-Grieskirchen hospital in Austria has shortened application log-in and log-out times,as well as securing password management,after deploying Imprivata in its VMware environment. Klinikum Wels-Grieskirchen is the fifth-largest ...
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Verizon's Enterprise Solutions group today unveiled a cloud services portfolio for the healthcare industry that it said can meet federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requirements for safeguarding electronic ...
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