Tag: Health IT
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The Iowa Clinic installs Aquilion PRIME 80 CT system, upgrades Aquilion 64 with VeloCT from Toshiba
Lowering radiation dose and ensuring patient safety in an outpatient setting, The Iowa Clinic installed an Aquilion PRIME 80 CT system and upgraded its Aquilion 64 with VeloCT from Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. As a result, The Iowa Clinic has significantly lowered dose while maintaining the image quality needed for accurate diagnoses. Source: The…
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First Edition: August 5, 2013
Kaiser Health News staff writer Jordan Rau reports: “Medicare will levy $227 million in fines against hospitals in every state but one for the second round of the government’s campaign to reduce the number of patients readmitted within a month, according to federal records released Friday” (Rau, 8/2). From: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20130805/First-Edition-August-5-2013.aspx
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Medicare Meaningful Use Incentive Payouts
Timeline and details on how Medicare will be paying out incentives for providers who qualify for the Meaningful Use program. Southern California Regional Extension Center, Director of Meaningful Use, Mary Mitchell presents at the Institute for Health Technology Transformation (iHT2… Video Rating: 5 / 5
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Colombia’s Mobile Health Clinics
CCTV’s Michelle Begue brings us to the slums of Bogota, Columbia, where drug users search the filth for recyclables they can sell to support their drug habit…
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Blocksworld
This is http://www.blocksworld.com. Build anything with drag, drop, and snap. Cute animals, working machines, your own games, characters, movies, vehicles wi… Video Rating: 4 / 5 Regional Medicare Fraud Prevention Summit – Miami, FL. July 16, 2010 – -Constantinos Miskis, Administration on Aging Region 4 Administrator, Moderator -Kathy…
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Healthcare Pricing, Wiki Style EMR Editing, and Quantified Self Data – @nickdawson Edition
It’s time again for my roundup of interesting EMR, EHR, and Healthcare IT tweets. Today’s tweets all come from Nick Dawson. I don’t know Nick really well, but see him online quite a bit. Plus, I did a Google Plus hangout with him after TEDMED. He’s a very interesting guy and these tweets illustrate some…
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Republicans’ Obamacare twofer: 40th repeal-type vote, Sen. Collins blasts employer provision
News outlets covered Friday’s vote in the House of Representatives to keep the IRS from enforcing parts of the Affordable Care Act and today’s weekly GOP address by Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine. …read more Source: Republicans' Obamacare twofer: 40th repeal-type vote, Sen. Collins blasts employer provision
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Morning Headlines 8/5/13
Maine hospitals disband remote ICU program, citing costs MaineHealth announces that it will stop offering its tele-ICU service in October after several participating hospitals drop out. The program connected nine rural hospitals across the state with a 24-hour-a-day ICU command center at Maine Medical Center in Portland. Whistleblower suit: Hospitals defrauded Medicaid A whisleblower lawsuit…
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IBM Watson in medicine
IBM’s commercial for Watson being used in medicine. Video Rating: 5 / 5 A discussion of the latest #HITsm chat on Healthcare Interoperability and Telemedicine with Nathan DiNiro (@unclenate) and John Lynn (@ehrandhit).
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CEO offers unique perspective in mHealth regulatory debate
It's not often that you find mHealth vendors who are asking the FDA for more regulations. However, Alan Portela, CEO of San Antonio-based AirStrip is a rare breed of company executive in that… read more Source: CEO offers unique perspective in mHealth regulatory debate