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mHealth Webinar: How to maximise the impact of mHealth services for maternal and child health
This is a recording of the GSMA mHealth webinar “How to maximise the impact of mHealth services for maternal and child health” which ran on 13 November 2012…. Video Rating: 0 / 5
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What is EMR?
http://FreeEMRbook.com Video 1 in our EMR Simply Put series. We discuss what an electronic medical record is and the two main kinds of EMR systems, server-ba… Video Rating: 4 / 5
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Medicare: Docs not leaving program; Sen. Baldwin pushes to protect rural hospital funds
In Medicare news, doctors may not be leaving the Medicare program in droves as some think. Sen. Tammy Baldwin is pushing back against Medicare cuts to rural hospital reimbursement, and some hospitals are making follow-up care changes to lower readmission rates. From: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20130827/Medicare-Docs-not-leaving-program3b-Sen-Baldwin-pushes-to-protect-rural-hospital-funds.aspx
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From freshman through senior year, college football players achieve increases in strength and size
From freshman through senior year, college football players achieve significant increases in strength and size, reports a study in the September issue of The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, official research journal of the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA). Source: From freshman through senior year, college football players achieve increases in strength and…
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IBM Hosts “Data In Our Lives” Event
Recently IBM hosted an influential event at the WW Research HQ in Yorktown Heights, NY to discuss how IBM is helping clients in a wide variety of industries …
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Readers Write: Natural Language Processing: Putting Big Data to Work to Drive Efficiencies and Improve Patient Outcomes
Natural Language Processing: Putting Big Data to Work to Drive Efficiencies and Improve Patient Outcomes By Dan Riskin, MD Natural language processing (NLP) is increasingly discussed in healthcare, but often in reference to different technologies such as speech recognition, computer-assisted coding (CAC), and analytics. NLP is an enabling technology that allows computers to derive meaning…
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Research: Readmission Rates Don’t Measure Pediatric Care Quality
According to research from UC San Francisco (UCSF), hospital 30-day readmissions rates for children do not accurately measure the quality of their care. Researchers say readmission rates are not useful to families trying to find a good hospital, nor to the hospitals trying to improve their pediatric care. According to research from UC San Francisco…
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Consumer coalition plan tackles health disparities for MU Stage 3
The Consumer Partnership for eHealth, a coalition of patient, consumer and labor organizations, this month published its plan to address health disparities in Meaningful Use Stage 3 and beyond. read more Source: Consumer coalition plan tackles health disparities for MU Stage 3
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RemoteID: Collecting mhealth data accurately and securely
Brooke Wurst, the executive director of Triad Trust, discusses RemoteID, a cost-effective, electricity independent remote information tracking and testing te… Video Rating: 5 / 5
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S.C. BlueCross Opens Access to Specialty Care Through Telemedicine
BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina and BlueChoice HealthPlan of South Carolina are increasing access to specialty care for members in underserved areas with the launch of a telemedicine program. BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina and BlueChoice HealthPlan of South Carolina are increasing access to specialty care for members in underserved areas with the launch of…