Author: trident50
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Mobile app uses voice analysis to detect mood changes in bipolar patients
An experimental smartphone application devised by a University of Michigan research team monitors subtle changes in the voices patients diagnosed with bipolar disorder and identifies mood changes. read more …read more
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Protecting Patient Data: Are Healthcare Providers Prepared?
0 At a time of some highly publicized security breaches that have been reported in the media, it’s fair to ask how well prepared are healthcare provider organizations that store vast amounts of personal health information. If the answer is that there is room for improvement, how can cloud service providers improve the picture? A…
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HHS, VA urged to boost incremental IT development efforts
Amid the push to more quickly get the results from federal IT projects, five federal agencies–including U.S. Department of Health & Human Services and the Department Veterans Affairs–have not fully met requirements for incremental development, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO). read more …read more
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Telemedicine Regulation Tucked Away in Medicare Reform
Tucked away in a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) final rule that aims to cut down on “unnecessary, obsolete, or excessively burdensome” Medicare regulations on hospitals and other healthcare providers was regulation on telemedicine. Tucked away in a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) final rule that aims to cut down on…
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Do patients with chronic diseases want telehealth solutions?
Several recent studies addressed the link between mobile health and individuals with chronic conditions, such as asthma, arthritis, cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, depression, diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, clinically diagnosed obesity, osteoporosis and stroke. read more …read more
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Tech helps hospital contain MERS virus
An Indiana hospital relied on best practices and technology to avoid spreading the deadly MERS virus while treating the first reported case in the United States. read more …read more
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Longer looks: Understanding downsides of saturated fat, sugar; will innovation save U.S. health care system?
The streetlights in Buenos Aires are considerably dimmer than they are in New York, one of the many things I learned during my family’s six-month stay in Argentina. The front windshield of the rental car, aged and covered in the city’s grime, further obscured what little light came through. When we stopped at the first…
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Recycling patients’ red blood cells during heart surgery better than banked blood transfusion
Patients whose own red blood cells are recycled and given back to them during heart surgery have healthier blood cells better able to carry oxygen where it is most needed compared to those who get transfusions of blood stored in a blood bank, according to results of a small study at Johns Hopkins. …read more
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State highlights: Missouri Medicaid benefits; telepsychiatry in rural states; Conn. for-profit hospital bill
A selection of health policy stories from Missouri, North Carolina, Connecticut, Georgia, Minnesota, Michigan and Alaska. …read more
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Leveraging EHRs To Attest For Meaningful Use Stage 2
The following is a guest post by Wendy Grafius Carson Tahoe Health (CTH) of Carson City, NV, has attested for Meaningful Use Stage 2 through its use of Allscripts Sunrise. The provider network is one of the nation’s first inpatient healthcare facilities to reach this milestone. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) specified…