Category: eHealth

While the information posted to online health discussion boards might be useful for researchers, even those who post can't agree on the level of consent required to use that information. In… read more …read more Source: Discussion board users disagree on their place in research

More than 70 major research and healthcare organizations from 41 countries have signed a letter of intent to create a framework for sharing genomic data worldwide, posted at the Broad Institute's… read more …read more Source: Global alliance formed to create framework for genomic data sharing

To meet the industry's goals of providing high quality, safe and affordable healthcare, quality measures need to transition from “setting specific narrow snapshots” to a more broad based, meaningful and patient center based assessments “centered in the continuum of time in which care is delivered,” according to an article published in the Journal of the…

Easing clinician processes often is a high priority when purchasing new IT tools, but it's not always one that comes to fruition, according to several healthcare technology executives who participated in a panel discussion Monday at Health Datapalooza in Washington, D.C. read more …read more Source: Healthcare execs: We don't want to build software

Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital launched the first of six virtual communities on Monday as part of its Global Health Delivery Project. read more …read more Source: Brigham and Women's launches first of six virtual provider communities

On Monday, at the Health Datapalooza IV conference, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that it is co-sponsoring a national competition–called “code-a-palooza“–to… read more …read more Source: Health Datapalooza IV conference a flurry of app challenge activity