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• MIT Media Lab Director Aims to Transform Healthcare—By Bringing Patients Front and Center

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 658
  X Factor , Healthcare IT , MIT Robert Buderi wrote: An avalanche of new technology promises to transforming healthcare. You’ve heard a lot about it: Electronic medical records. New ways to mine genomic data to match patients with the right medicines. Everything from iPhone apps and robots to help you ...
  11 hours ago

• You have our attention, from beginning, middle and end

  
  Advertising, Marketing and Design — Authority: 148
  My 2-year old loves trains. He also love big trucks, fire trucks, and buses. So, yesterday we packed up the kids and after attending a birthday party, we set off for Jim Thorpe to hop aboard the Lehigh Valley Gorge Scenic train ride featuring a special guest, you know who! It was freezing cold so we gladly boarded the ...
  23 hours ago

• Top 10 issues impacting healthcare in 2010

  
  Action For Better Healthcare — Authority: 120
  Wondering what healthcare will look like in 2010?Every year PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Health Research Institute publishes a report outlining the key issues facing the health industry for the coming year. 2010 will be a year of opportunity if done right.The report called, “Squeezing the juice out of healthcare,” ...
  3 days ago

• SourceMedical Announces Partnership with Encircle Healthcare to Offer Insurance Verification

  
  Cataract Outsourcing — Authority: 142
  SourceMedical and Encircle Healthcare have announced the formation of a new partnership to offer an automated insurance verification solution to ASCs called SourcePlus Eligibility, according to a SourceMedical news release. SourceMedical’s SourcePlus Eligibility automates the processes used to verify coverage and ...
  3 days ago

• Arguments for Maintaining the Health IT Status Quo on Defects Nondisclosure Clauses

  
  Health Care Renewal — Authority: 526
  As I wrote at Healthcare Renewal here , I recently posted a web petition " Transparency and Openness in Electronic Patient Records and Other Healthcare Information Technology Systems " at http://www.webpetitions.com/cgi-bin/print_petition.cgi?99504454 , calling for an end to Nondisclosure Clauses [of defects, ...
  4 days ago

• Aveo Aims for $86M Debut, Exagrid Snags $16M, PatientKeeper Adds $13M, & More Boston-Area Deals News

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 658
  Roundup , deals , VC Rebecca Zacks wrote: In honor of the eighth day of Hanukah, here are the top eight deals of the last week. —Lexington, MA-based Cubist Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: CBST ) i nked a deal to acquire San Diego-based Calixa Therapeutics for $92.5 million upfront, with as much as $310 ...
  4 days ago

• Why Michael Porter Makes So Much Sense

  
  eHealth — Authority: 106
  Last night I heard Michael Porter speak at the Cleveland Clinic. Author of Redefining Healthcare , among other books, he drove home his approach to value-based competition in health care. He has many quotable, provocative statements on health care: fee for service model is toxic to improving health outcomes ...
  4 days ago

• Assay Depot Founders Morphed Their Biotech Startup Into e-Commerce Provider of Drug Discovery Services

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 658
  Internet , e-commerce , Biotech Bruce V. Bigelow wrote: The three co-founders of San Diego’s Assay Depot started the company in 2006 as a for-hire cancer research outfit, with the big idea of creating a Web-based system that would make it super easy for biomedical researchers to order assays, ...
  4 days ago

• Does Subliminal Advertising Really Work?

  
  Advertising, Marketing and Design — Authority: 148
  
  5 days ago

• Web Petition: Transparency and Openness in Electronic Patient Records and Other Healthcare Information Technology Systems

  
  Health Care Renewal — Authority: 526
  I have created a new Web petition "Transparency and Openness in Electronic Patient Records and Other Healthcare Information Technology Systems." It is at WEBPETITIONS.COM at this link: http://www.webpetitions.com/cgi-bin/print_petition.cgi?99504454 The petition states: We, the undersigned, believe in ...
  6 days ago

• Microsoft Buys Opalis and Sentillion, Swype and Widevine Raise Cash, Dendreon Rakes In $409M, & More Seattle-Area Deals News

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 658
  Roundup , deals , VC Gregory T. Huang wrote: It was a busy week for Northwest deals, as companies tried to beat the holiday rush. Lots of action in software, mobile, and biotech. —Seattle-based Swype, maker of text-input software for touch screens, raised $5.6 million in a Series B round led by ...
  6 days ago

• Tensions and Paradoxes in Electronic Patient Record Research: Healthcare IT as Cybernetic Miracle Takes Another Hit

  
  Health Care Renewal — Authority: 526
  In " 2009 a Pivotal Year In Healthcare IT " I wrote that: 2009 is proving to be a pivotal year in healthcare IT. Recent authoritative articles and reports on health IT problems largely validate the issues presented at this blog and others focusing on health IT issues, and at my academic website on HIT ...
  6 days ago

• PatientKeeper Collects $13M Funding, Puts VC Chip Hazard on Board

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 658
  VC , deals , Healthcare IT Ryan McBride wrote: PatientKeeper is developing software for physicians that will help them comply with planned federal guidelines for the use of electronic medical records. And the Newton, MA-based firm says today that it’s raised $13 million in debt and equity funds to ...
  6 days ago

• EMR Features with the Most Potential

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 422
  “Physician order entry and decision support I believe offer the most chance of improving healthcare delivery. There are a lot of information systems with bells and whistles that don’t focus on physicians’ real needs.” – Neil R. Powe, MD, MPH, MBA, Chief of Medical Services, San Francisco General Hospital ...
  1 week ago

• So Transparent

  
  Advertising, Marketing and Design — Authority: 148
  I think it’s important to live up to your word. Keeping promises and treating others with respect should just be common practice. It’s not always easy, but we can try everyday to make it happen. At DDA, transparency is a big part of what we do. We try to be as open and honest as possible and sometimes we say ...
  1 week ago

• EMR Stimulus, Selection and Implementation Conference

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 422
  I’ve started talking with some people about putting together an EMR conference. The main focus of the conference would be practical knowledge and skills to be able to understand the EMR stimulus and to deal with the EMR selection and implementation process. Here’s a short list of the types of sessions I’m ...
  1 week ago

• Iowa Health System Launches First Statewide Electronic Prescribing System

  
  Cataract Outsourcing — Authority: 142
  Iowa Health System , the largest integrated health system in the state, and Allscripts have launched a program to convert a majority of Iowa’s physicians from paper prescriptions to electronic ones in order to cut down on costly medical errors, according to an Iowa Health System news release. The program, ...
  1 week ago

• 2009: A Year of Surprises and Change for the EHR Technology Market

  
  Cataract Outsourcing — Authority: 142
  2009 began with a bang for legacy Electronic Health Record (EHR) vendors, promising strong sales and windfall profits on the heels of stimulus package incentive bonuses initially worth more than $19 billion to doctors and hospitals. But things changed dramatically along the way. Here are some surprises and notable ...
  1 week ago

• My EMR is DOWN!!!

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 422
  2 real life stories from users of an EMR (sent to me by a reader of the site). In each case the users started figuratively shouting, “My EMR is DOWN!!!” 1. One of my clients, a pediatric group, went down yesterday. Their firewall box choked which resulted in their internal network being useless. Each computer ...
  1 week ago

• Microsoft to Buy Sentillion, Looks to Strengthen Efforts in Electronic Medical Records

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 658
  deals , acquisitions , Healthcare IT Gregory T. Huang wrote: Let the healthcare-IT acquisitions begin. Microsoft announced today it plans to buy Sentillion, a healthcare software company based in Andover, MA. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The acquisition is expected to close early ...
  1 week ago

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