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Tue, Feb 5 2013
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Filed under: news, Public Health, Patient Engagement, Business, wellness, Innovation/innovative companies, Patient experience, Joan Justice, HealthWorks Collective, ePatient, Person-Centered HealthCare
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Practice Fusion and our partner Kaggle – a company that hosts data prediction competitions – are pleased to announce the winner of the Analyze This! 2012 – Open Challenge: Datalanche, Inc. The competition required participants to mash up public...
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At Practice Fusion, we’re always looking to team up with companies that are disrupted the health or technology sectors. One of those companies, Prebacked, will be hosting a hackathon later this month with the goal of finding solutions to health related...
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Councillors' discomfort around issues such as sexual health sparks fear that services could be reduced Local government efforts to improve public health could be undermined by councillors who refuse to promote important but 'difficult' messages, such as talking about condoms and safe sex...
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Start your filming, get editing, and submit! Practice Fusion has teamed up with the Disposable Film Festival again for our 2nd annual health film festival competition. Enter your film for a chance to win a grand prize of $3000, 2nd place of $1000 or 3rd...
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Achieving health equity requires more data, more research, and more resources to understand and fight the health disparities that affect gay and transgender people. Collecting confidential sexual orientation and gender identity data from patients through...
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Staying in hospital can be a difficult experience for a child, so tailoring their mealtimes through Greenacre Garden can make all the difference Staying in hospital can be a difficult experience for a child – being in unfamiliar surroundings, sleeping in a strange bed and eating different food. For this...
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Early yesterday morning, we at Practice Fusion released the exciting news that we secured a Series C round of financing, raising $34M from top investors and securing our role as a health leader in Silicon Valley. On the other side of the country, the...
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From live tweeting brain surgeries to the best EHR implementations, health technology news moves between consumer to enterprise and everything in between. Here are a few health sector news highlights from the past week: • US News & World Report featured...
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Health and health technology focused news has really picked up in recent weeks and it can be a challenge to stay on top of what’s happening in the sector. At Practice Fusion, we want to keep you informed, so here are a few recent news highlights: On April...
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If community skills are to be conveyed to carers and volunteers, then care and health practitioners will benefit from skills development in adult education, leadership and business planning Sponsor's feature A recent joint project between Skills for Care and the Association of Directors of Adult...
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Conference hears councils will inherit historic difficulties when staff are transferred from the NHS to the town hall Councils taking on the burden of responsibility for public health will face a major cultural barrier when making the transition to town hall control, local government leaders have heard...
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Wed, Feb 29 2012
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Filed under: news, Public Health, Healthcare Network, Guardian Professional, Policy, finance, Local government network, Commissioning, Professional development, Localism
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British Medical Association urges health secretary to slow down implementation of non-emergency number to allow for proper assessment The British Medical Association (BMA) has written to health secretary Andrew Lansley over concerns about the implementation of the NHS 111 24-hour non-emergency phone...
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Health secretary Andrew Lansley reveals first estimates for local government funding, but confusion over future responsibilities remains The Department of Health has announced the first estimates for public health funding under the new NHS structure, promising that at least £2.2bn will be paid directly...
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Thu, Feb 9 2012
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Filed under: news, Public Health, Healthcare Network, Social care, guardian.co.uk, Policy, finance, Local government network, Local economies, Localism