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mHealth Apps: Evidence-Based Analysis at the Point of Care

Gabriel Perna
In part two of a four-part interview series with mobile health (mHealth) app developers, Healthcare Informatics Associate Editor Gabriel Perna speaks with Jack Olexy, co-founder and vice president of information technology of eDoc4u. The app provides evidence-based clinical analysis at the point-of-care for both patients and physicians, through the automation of health risk assessments.

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A Pair of Providers Announce Breaches

May 14, 2013     Gabriel Perna
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The healthcare world continues to be plagued by data breaches. Two providers, Indiana University Health Arnett, Inc. in Lafayette, Ind. and the Regional Medical Center in Memphis, Tenn., both announced incidents, separately, this past week.

Scalability and the Growing Hospital Network

May 14, 2013     Gabriel Perna
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In a recent report, researchers from HIMSS Analytics explored the network demands hospital IT leaders are facing with the increasing digitization of healthcare data. In an exclusive interview with Healthcare Informatics’ Associate Editor Gabriel Perna, Jennifer Horowitz, the senior director of research at HIMSS Analytics talks about the findings from this report and how mobile devices will cost hospitals in more ways than one.

NYeC Announces Statewide Patient Portal Design Challenge Winners

May 14, 2013     Rajiv Leventhal
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The New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) has made known the winners of its Design Challenge for the Patient Portal for New Yorkers, announcing that Mana Health placed first, iHealthNY second, and MyHealth Profile third, and will be awarded $15,000, $7,500, and $2,500 respectively.

2013 Up-and-Comer: peerVue, Inc.

May 13, 2013     David Raths
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As PACS [picture archiving and communications systems] systems were becoming digital, Kyle Lawton, along with peerVue Inc. co-founder Eric Heath, saw an opening to develop a new software development methodology that was configurable and not based on specific requirements.

UPMC Announces Wind Power Data Center Initiative

May 13, 2013     Gabriel Perna
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The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) is going green with a new initiative that will see the use of wind energy to power the health system’s data centers, the organization recently announced.

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Picture Perfect

May 10, 2013     Richard R. Rogoski
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Now that most diagnostic images are digital, the storage and retrieval of those images have become a crucial part of hospitals’ disaster recovery plans. At Memorial Medical Center in Springfield, Ill., the imaging department developed a new disaster recovery strategy after a power outage in 2010 revealed that the redundancy built into its existing disaster recovery plan was inadequate.

2013 Up-and-Comer: Health Catalyst, LLC

May 10, 2013     David Raths
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A team that spent years fine-tuning the development of data warehousing in the 1990s at Intermountain Healthcare has started making a big impact in the industry by replicating the success they had at Intermountain. The company that grew out of their work, Salt Lake City-based Health Catalyst, has formed partnerships with several large integrated health networks.

2013 Up-and-Comer: Explorys

May 10, 2013     David Raths
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There’s a lot of talk about the potential for leveraging “big data” in healthcare, but so far, most of it remains just that: talk. But one Cleveland-based company is leading the way. Spun out of Cleveland Clinic in 2009, Explorys’ goal is to allow providers to meld data sets from multiple providers, payers and plans, care settings, and electronic medical systems to do various types of analysis.

Vendor Scam Results in Data Breach Involving 17k Patients

May 10, 2013     Rajiv Leventhal
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North Carolina-based Raleigh Orthopaedic Clinic has notified approximately 17,300 patients that x-ray films belonging to them and taken prior to 2008 may have been provided to a third-party vendor, which sold the films to an Ohio-based recycling company that harvested the silver from the X-rays.

Research: Data Collection in Hospitals Could Help Prevent Workplace Injuries

May 9, 2013     Gabriel Perna
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Researchers at the Drexel University School of Public Health say if occupational information was included in a hospital’s data collection it could go a long way in preventing workplace health and safety hazards.

mHealth Apps: An Attempt to Simplify Data Capturing and Analysis

May 9, 2013     Gabriel Perna
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In part three of a four-part interview series with mobile health (mHealth) app developers, Healthcare Informatics Associate Editor Gabriel Perna speaks with Stephen Hau, CEO of Shareable Ink, a Nashville-based software company that has developed a cloud-based clinical documentation platform for the iPad.

Framework Created for Using mHealth to Address Gender Issues in Developing Countries

May 9, 2013     Gabriel Perna
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The mHealth Alliance, a Washington D.C.-based non-profit organization, has announced a framework that aims to use mobile health (mHealth) technologies as a way to better understand better understand gender inequity in low-and-middle-income countries. The Gender Analytical Framework, as it is being called, aims to help people better understand the nuances of gender issues, as well as gaps related to gender.
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