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Google Glass links to EHR 150 150 Biomedical & Health Informatics (BHI)

Google Glass links to EHR

Look, Ma, no hands! EHR company drchrono is incorporating Google Glass in its platform. The idea is to create the first wearable health record — one that is always mobile.…

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Hacker calls health security ‘Wild West’ 150 150 Biomedical & Health Informatics (BHI)

Hacker calls health security ‘Wild West’

Kevin Johnson is a professional hacker — albeit a self-described ethical one. As head of the security consulting firm Secure Ideas, his job involves probing into organizations’ networks and applications…

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Apple’s new release features Mayo app 150 150 Biomedical & Health Informatics (BHI)

Apple’s new release features Mayo app

Apple on Monday touted its working with the Mayo Clinic as it rolled out an app that would piece together healthcare information from many third-party apps – including one from…

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Nurses left out of mobile initiatives 150 150 Biomedical & Health Informatics (BHI)

Nurses left out of mobile initiatives

Nurses may face “explosive growth” ahead in the use of mobile communications solutions – primarily because they’ve been ignored for so long. Indeed, 42 percent of hospitals still rely on…

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Clinical Challenge: Lilly’s Design Challenges Take on Patient User Experience 150 150 Biomedical & Health Informatics (BHI)

Clinical Challenge: Lilly’s Design Challenges Take on Patient User Experience

In its continuing effort to make clinical trials more patient-centric and to improve the time, cost, and efficiency of developing new treatments, Eli Lilly and Company announced the winners of…

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ATA: Telemedicine meant to supplement, not ‘totally replace’ in-person care 150 150 Biomedical & Health Informatics (BHI)

ATA: Telemedicine meant to supplement, not ‘totally replace’ in-person care

While telemedicine can serve as a viable and convenient alternative to face-to-face primary and urgent care, particularly for rural patients, it’s not meant to totally replace such care, according to…

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Community Health Centers Show Little Bias in EHR Adoption 150 150 Biomedical & Health Informatics (BHI)

Community Health Centers Show Little Bias in EHR Adoption

In contrast to other types of care providers, which have disproportionately adopted electronic health records (EHRs) in areas serving white, middle class urban and suburban populations, federally-funded community health centers…

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DrugDev Acquires TrialNetworks as ‘Tech Glue’ 150 150 Biomedical & Health Informatics (BHI)

DrugDev Acquires TrialNetworks as ‘Tech Glue’

DrugDev announced this morning that it has acquired TrialNetworks. Financial terms were not disclosed, but the transaction was supported by investment from Invesco Perpetual. TrialNetworks hosts what it calls the…

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Define your health system through data, not buildings 150 150 Biomedical & Health Informatics (BHI)

Define your health system through data, not buildings

Investing in interoperability is well worth it so a health system can be demarcated by its data, and not its individual buildings, according to John Bosco, CIO of Great Neck,…

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