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ETC Combines With WHINN
- IT
- 06/10/2015
The European Telemedicine Conference (ETC) 2015 takes place in Odense, Denmark later this month with a new development: this year, it is running alongside WHINN – Week of Health and Innovation, combi
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Demand for Digital Connection
- IT
- 06/10/2015
Americans prefer doctors who are digitally savvy and demand a connected healthcare experience, a new Surescripts survey finds. Sixty-eight percent of the more than 1,000 respondents to the nationwide...
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Hospital Chaplains and Telemedicine
- IT
- 05/10/2015
Use of telemedicine has expanded to meet the growing spiritual needs of patients, with hospital chaplains now offering spiritual support increasingly through Skype, FaceTime and other high-tech connec
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Study: mHealth Apps Have Poor Data Privacy Protection
- IT
- 02/10/2015
According to researchers, mobile health applications accredited by the UK National Health Service do not adequately protect the privacy of users' personal health information. The accreditation process
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Goals of Federal Health IT Strategic Plan
- IT
- 26/09/2015
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has finalised its strategy for the next five years. The Federal Health IT Strategic Plan 2015-2020 aims to promote "effective use of informat
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Connecting Healthcare Data - Interoperability
- IT
- 22/09/2015
While people often take for granted the convenience of being able to withdraw money from an ATM hundreds of miles from home or call someone in another cellphone network, that same sort of universal...
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HIMSS Stage 6 and 7 Hospitals in Summit Focus
- IT
- 22/09/2015
The HIMSS Europe CIO Summit will be celebrating its 6th year next month in Spain. This annual event which brings together leading European IT Directors and Senior Healthcare IT Executives focuses...
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IOM Report: IT Can Support Better Diagnosis
- IT
- 22/09/2015
“A well-designed health IT system can facilitate timely access to information, communication among health care professionals, patients, and their families, clinical reasoning and decision
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Innovation for Hospital IT Solutions
- IT
- 21/09/2015
Innovative ideas in healthcare lead to more efficiency and better delivery of care, and hopefully improved outcomes. Many healthcare innovations have come from the work of scientists and researchers....
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Bespoke Software Program Cuts Costs
- IT
- 20/09/2015
With increasing emphasis on value-based care, hospitals are coming under pressure to find ways to optimise staff and resource utilisation that leads to improved care quality and cost reduction. To...
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