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Electronic Health Records and Electronic Medical Records are all over the news with recent focus on Health Care Information Technology. Over the next few years, the world of medical information tech is changing as Health Care is getting a major information technology overhaul as the world moves towards a digital age in health care. Get the latest health care news, insight, analysis, blogs and product reviews from eWeek Health Care IT and Medical IT news articles. Follow the latest growth areas such as automated practice management, electronic health records (EHR), electronic medical records (EMR), computerized physician entry (CPE) and peer intelligence.
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The Apple iPad already has the medical community intrigued, says a new study, which reports that nearly 20 percent of surveyed clinicians expressed interest in the iPad, while 9 percent plan to scoop one up asap.
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There is good and bad news on the job front: The bad news is that layoffs are still happening; the good news is that they are a lot smaller than last January, and workers who were laid off in the last year are getting back to some form of work in larger numbers.
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IBM has announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire Initiate Systems, a maker of data integrity software for information sharing among health care and government organizations.
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Microsoft has focused on making a number of Bing features more robust over the past few months, offering more information and charts in specific categories such as nutrition. By incorporating data from computational engine Wolfram Alpha, Bing now offers detailed nutritional information on a wide variety of foods; in addition, the search engine now offers a “Recipes” tab that gives the ingredients, directions and nutrition for dozens of consumables.
Microsoft evidently hopes that features such as increased nutritional information will help distinguish Bing from Google, its primary competition and the current search-engine market dominator. Bing-related nutrition and recipes also help augment Microsoft’s forays into health care IT. The following images show just what Bing has to offer with regard to what’s on your plate.
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The British Department of Health recommends that its National Health Service staff stop using Internet Explorer 6 without a necessary security patch. The British move is part of a general concern in Europe about Internet Explorer security following a wave of attacks against Google and other companies carried out by exploiting an invalid pointer reference. Germany and France have also advised their citizens to stop using unpatched versions of Internet Explorer. Windows 7 includes IE 8, the latest version of the Web browser.
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AIS’ new Semi-Rugged Touchscreen Tablet PC features a 10.4-inch durable color touch screen, a 1.6GHz Atom processor and Windows XP. Made for outdoor enterprise applications, it can hold its own against rain, dust and butterfingered users.
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The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act was enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The HITECH Act imposes certain requirements on vendors of personal health records (and other related entities) in the event of certain security breaches relating to protected health information. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Gretchen Hellman explains the new HITECH Act compliance requirements, their implications and some best practices for meeting HITECH Act compliance.
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Bill and Melinda Gates announced at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, that their foundation would pledge about $10 billion over the next decade to help research and deliver vaccines to children in the developing world. The Gates Foundation estimated that the money could save as many as 8.7 million children over the next decade, at least based on a model developed in conjunction with Johns Hopkins. In addition to vaccination development, the foundation is focusing its attention on education and agricultural initiatives.
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While small and midsize hospitals plan to increase spending on data centers as they anticipate the flood of electronic health records, a host of challenges threaten to undermine the effectiveness of that spending.
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Combining advanced analytics technology developed by the Mayo Clinic and IBM's WebSphere Process Server to model and orchestrate the automated workflow, aneurysm detection is dramatically improving.
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Rude, gross and inappropriate behavior by co-workers and managers is not the exception in the workplace, research suggests. A similar study on the effects of rudeness finds that when teams witness incivility, negative thoughts dominate and diminish productivity for the larger group.
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Acting too quickly after a data breach can cost companies even more money, the Ponemon Institute reports.
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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates makes an appearance on ABC to talk about the U.S. economy and his charitable works, telling viewers that the economy needs several years to recover and that taxpayers can expect to pay more in the coming months.
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Job cuts in technology were fierce in 2009, but 2010 is expected to see modest growth in a number of subsectors. The last time layoffs were this bad was in 2005, according to a report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
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National averages for technology salaries are pretty stagnant, a recent Dice report shows, and there are high levels of job dissatisfaction. However, there is more growth in wages regionally, with high technology demand in Washington, New York, Silicon Valley and Austin, Texas.
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