While the overall economy may well continue to sputter, the health IT market should be hitting on all cylinders over the next five years, a new industry report predicts. One slice of the market, federal spending on health IT, is expected to grow from $4.5 billion in 2011 to $6.5...
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A new bill introduced in Congress would give Medicare and Medicaid providers limited liability protection for electronic health record errors. Rep. Tom Marino, R-Pa., says the bill "would create a system for reporting potential errors that occur when using electronic records without the threat of...
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This is probably a very good strategic location and being not too far from Washington, perhaps those in government leadership positions may get a better picture of the importance of the cloud which the Senate chose not to budget. Microsoft Government Cloud Application Center Created To Assist State and...
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This is pretty nice as all the Microsoft Partners who sell and support Government Cloud services from Microsoft are all listed in one convenient area. Additional information on cloud computing can also be found here. The feds though have to wait as they are out of luck for funding here as...
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Is greed creating anger? Is ignorance allowing greed to grow? Those are just a couple questions popping around in my mind today. When one is in a very public position, and especially those that make decisions that impact the well being of the rest of the nation, well this is what happens...
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Do you want safety or a lane to get a product to market rapidly? This is what the FDA is looking at. Not too long ago it was in the news that the NIH and others were looking to improve upon the “fast track” time to get products approved faster. You can’t have it both ways! It...
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Mon, Mar 15 2010
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Imaging and diagnosis processes save many lives each year and is a part of healthcare imaging today, no matter where you are. The safety comes as suggested here with better training, but more importantly better and revised software is the key. The reason I say this is you can have the absolutely...
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New Scientist came out with a story about how they wanted to see if they could in fact, get some stolen DNA information sequenced and analyzed. If you are interested in how the actual scenario took place, read it all through, very interesting and the fact that they were able to run the DNA through ...
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