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Could more young people be helped if mental health services were brought to them? | health IT caucus
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Could more young people be helped if mental health services were brought. Could more young people be helped if mental health services were brought to them? May 20, 2015. VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) A push to make mental health services available to more young people in Ontario is getting a big thumbs-up from a counsellor here in Vancouver. A new idea is being tried out there that features a clinic in an RV. Jones adds the fact the RV is simply labelled as a clinic as opposed to a mental health clinic could mean...
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THE AFTERMATH OF THE OPM HACK | health IT caucus
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THE AFTERMATH OF THE OPM HACK. THE AFTERMATH OF THE OPM HACK. August 14, 2015. When news first broke of the OPM hack back in June. Few understood the massive scale of the attack. Originally thought to have affected 4 million federal employees, estimates quickly rose to over 22 million. Titled Handing Over the Keys to the Castle: OPM Demonstrated that Antiquated Security Practices Harm National Security, which analyzes what cybersecurity practices are most harmful to the federal government. Eftekhari outl...
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Louisiana Health Cooperative founders held lucrative deals before pulling plug. August 18, 2015. Louisiana Health Cooperative was among the 24 not-for-profit companies nationally to accept loans from the federal government to provide insurance coverage called for in. What Personalizing Health Care Might Mean for You. August 17, 2015. The idea that viruses derived from an insect and the common cold can be used to fight cancer may sound like science fiction, but. August 17, 2015. August 17, 2015. Children&...
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What Not To Do In The NICU | health IT caucus
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What Not To Do In The NICU. What Not To Do In The NICU. July 21, 2015. If you’ve got a baby in the neonatal intensive care unit, your first thought is probably not, “Does my child really need that antireflux medication? But antireflux meds in for newborns topped the list of five overused tests or treatments released Monday as part of the “Choosing Wisely” program. About one-third of health care spending in the United States is overuse and waste, costing about $2.7 trillion a year. That’s not to say...
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3 Critical Fixes for the US Health Care System (Op-Ed) | health IT caucus
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3 Critical Fixes for the US Health Care System (Op-Ed). 3 Critical Fixes for the US Health Care System (Op-Ed). August 15, 2015. HHS unwraps new platform and tools for disaster preparedness. Possibly the most complex system that health-technology developers face today has nothing to do with hardware, software or even human behavior rather, it’s the U.S. health care system. To build a better solution for the future. We are fortunate enough to live in a time. Of great technological advancement. This ha...
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Top Health IT Purchases of the Week | health IT caucus
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Top Health IT Purchases of the Week. Top Health IT Purchases of the Week. August 14, 2015. Here are new contract signings for health information systems that providers or payers have announced in recent days:. Providence Health and Services in the Pacific Northwest will use quality and registry reporting software from QPID Health at its facility in Everett, Washington. Providence has 34 hospitals and 5,000 physicians. Beaufort Memorial Hospital in Beaufort, S.C., is upgrading its Meditech system ...Two-h...
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Michael Sam walks away from football, cites mental health | health IT caucus
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Michael Sam walks away from football, cites mental health. Michael Sam walks away from football, cites mental health. August 15, 2015. Michael Sam, who in 2014 became the first openly gay player to be drafted by an NFL team, announced on Twitter Friday evening that he is walking away from football for mental health reasons. Sam was not signed for the remainder of the 2014 season, so he applied to participate in the NFL’s first-ever veteran combine held at the Cardinals’ team facility in March...FactCheck...
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01 | August | 2015 | health IT caucus
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Daily Archives: August 1, 2015. Health IT ripe for IPOs. August 1, 2015. New regulatory policies and digital transformation are growing the health IT market in 2015, which is making IPOs a more attractive option. As investments in healthcare technology mature, and as investors look for ways to liquidate or gain late-stage capital, IPOs are growing at record levels, according to mid-yearmarket review by Healthcare Growth Partners. 8220;The confluence of regulatory change, digital transformation, and capit...
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How Solutions Providers Can Help Their Health IT Clients Fix The Clinical Workflow Problem | health IT caucus
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How Solutions Providers Can Help Their Health IT Clients Fix The Clinical. How Solutions Providers Can Help Their Health IT Clients Fix The Clinical Workflow Problem. August 13, 2015. Your clients have a few specific issues that will perk their ears and clinical workflow is one of them. Improving workflow efficiency and effectiveness is so important to speeding time to treatment in healthcare process that it is a central concern for organizations looking tomeet Meaningful Use standards. You’ve got to be ...
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What Healthcare Can Learn from the OPM Data Breach | health IT caucus
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What Healthcare Can Learn from the OPM Data Breach. What Healthcare Can Learn from the OPM Data Breach. August 18, 2015. The US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced earlier this summer that it had fallen victim to a large-scale cybersecurity attack. The OPM data breach further proved that regardless of size, all organizations need to ensure they have comprehensive data security measures in place. One of the main issues with the OPM data breach, according to Eftekhari, was that it did not have a...
