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TouchPad gets shot at new life with MRI treatment
The HP TouchPad tablet may have been declared dead by HP itself recently, but it seems resurrection is possible. And that's thanks to--of all things--changes in MRI technology. What's the connection?
UCLA/UCSF look to build research database from health app data
Healthcare researchers should be rubbing their hands together with glee over the Open mHealth Project's latest initiative. The University of California Los Angeles and UC San Francisco-developed
Custodial agent for updating VA's VistA to launch in August
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has selected The Informatics Applications Group to design and establish the custodial agent that will act as the open-source community's central governing body
VA begins route to create an open-source EHR
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has taken the next step with its VistA (Veterans Integrated System Technology Architecture) electronic health record (EHR) system by drafting a request for
HIE, mobility, open platforms start to knock down 'walled gardens' of proprietary EMRs
On the cover of its September issue, Wired magazine declared the web "dead" but also proclaimed, "Long live the Internet." Instead of searching through a browser, people are increasingly turning to
Continua Health Alliance to offer library of interoperable connectivity code for smartphones
The Continua Health Alliance is building a library of source code to connect interoperable personal health devices and health records via smartphones, Healthcare IT News reports. This mobile Continua
NCI developing 'ultra-light record' for cancer care, data exchange
It won't qualify you for Medicare and Medicaid EMR incentive payments, but a an "ultra-light record" based on standards of the National Cancer Institute's Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG)
Medsphere, Axeo join list of vendors offering guarantees on meaningful use
More and more EMR vendors are offering financial guarantees that their products will help customers achieve meaningful use of health IT, and thus qualify for federal subsidies under the American
Text messaging promises cheap, effective delivery of health information--in Africa
If you want to see the true potential of mobile healthcare, look east. Not as far as high-tech countries like Japan or South Korea, and further south than post-industrial Europe. Yes, once again, I'm
Sensors in mobile phones offer new public-health opportunities
California-based not-for-profit InSTEDD (Innovative Support to Emergencies, Diseases and Disasters) is testing open-source software to share, aggregate and analyze data sent via text message from
