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- New Healthcare.gov is Open, CMS-Free
- by David Cole, Development Seed with contributions from Chris Bernstein, Digital Communications Division, ASPA/HHS. HHS.gov Digital Strategy Blog, Wednesday, April 10, 2013. "Recently HHS CTO Bryan Sivak outlined a new vision for healthcare.gov. The site will relaunch this June with a completely rethought design and architecture. The new healthcare.gov follows a new CMS-free exit disclaimer icon philosophy. It will be a completely static website, generated by Jekyll exit disclaimer icon. This shift will allow HHS to move away from the use of a content management system for managing Heathcare.gov. .."
Added: 16 May 2013;
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- New tools secure mobile health data
- By John Pulley. NextGov, 12 December 2012. "The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services today released several online tools to help health-care providers use mobile devices such as smartphones, tablet computers and laptops without risking breaches of patient health information. The tools are part of an HHS education initiative to help providers and other health-care organizations better secure protected health information on mobile devices. The multipronged initiative also includes a variety of videos, fact sheets, FAQs and posters..."
Added: 13 December 2012;
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- Where ER Doctors Work Entirely Via Webcam
- By Lindsay Abrams. The Atlantic, December 11 2012. "In South Dakota, long-distance doctoring is bringing health care to rural communities. Every day -- and through the night -- in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, doctors report to work in a hospital where there are no patients. And in over 70 rural communities in four states, patients stricken by heart attacks, or injured in car accidents, or facing other urgent health issues are rushed to an E.R. where there are no doctors. Or, more precisely, there's one doctor. More often than not, he or she is trained in family practice, not emergency care. And if the call's coming in the middle of the night, he legally has a half-hour to get out of bed and report in..."
Added: 13 December 2012;
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- DHS tries monitoring social media for signs of biological attacks
- By Aliya Sternstein. NextGov, November 9, 2012. "The Homeland Security Department has commissioned Accenture to test technology that mines open social networks for indications of pandemics, according to the vendor. The $3 million, yearlong 'biosurveillance' program will try to instantaneously spot public health trends among the massive amount of data that citizens share online daily, company officials said in announcing the deal Thursday..."
Added: 12 November 2012;
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- Open health data in practice: Increase your access to lab results
- Voice your support for a proposed federal rule that expands patients' access to test results, by Tim O'Reilly. O'Reilly Radar, 16 October 2012. "I'm convinced that there's a wave of innovation coming in healthcare, driven by new kinds of data, new ways of extracting meaning from that data, and new business models that data can enable. That's one of the reasons why we launched our StrataRx Conference, which focuses on the importance of data science to the future of health care. Unfortunately, much of the data that will enable an entrepreneurial explosion is still locked up — in paper records, in proprietary data formats, and by well-intentioned but conflicting privacy regulations..."
Added: 18 October 2012;
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- iTriage
- By Healthagen LLC. iTunes, Updated: Jun 15, 2012. Version: 3.8 - Created by two ER docs, iTriage helps you answer the questions: 'What medical condition could I have?' and 'Where should I go for treatment?' Save, easily access, and share the healthcare information most important to you.
Added: 22 June 2012;
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- Data in use from public health to personal fitness
- HHS leadership should cause other organizations to open data, by Andy Oram. Read Write Web, 12 June 2012. "Back in 2010, the first health data initiative forum by the Dept. of Health and Human Services introduced the public to the idea of an agency releasing internal data in forms easy for both casual viewers and programmers to use. The third such forum, which took place last week in Washington, DC, was so enormous (1,400 participants) that it had to be held in a major convention center. Todd Park, who as CTO made HHS a leader in the open data movement, has moved up to take a corresponding role for the entire federal government. Open data is a world movement, and the developer challenges that the HDI forum likes to highlight are standard strategies for linking governments with app programmers... Recently, HHS has intensified its efforts by creating a simple Web interface where its staff can enter data about new data sets. Data can be uploaded automatically from spreadsheets. And a new Data Access and Use Committee identifies data sets to release..."
Added: 20 June 2012;
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- mHealth apps are just the beginning of the disruption in healthcare from open health data
- Rockstars from music, government and industry convened around healthcare at the 2012 Health Datapalooza, by Alex Howard. O'Reilly Radar, 8 June 2012. "Two years ago, the potential of government making health information as useful as weather data felt like an abstraction. Healthcare data could give citizens the same "blue dot" for navigating health and illness akin to the one GPS data fuels on the glowing map of geolocated mobile devices that are in more and more hands..."
Added: 20 June 2012;
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- Health 2.0 Code-a-thon Creates Mobile and Web Health Apps With Open Data
- by Alex Howard, Gov20.Govfresh, June 3, 2012. "This weekend, there was a code-a-thon at the Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health in Washington, DC. Half a dozen or so teams competed for thousands of dollars in prize money. The overall winner was "School Fit," which compares the fitness levels of children in an online mashup of maps & data..."
Added: 13 June 2012;
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- VA launches a healthcare data mapping project
- By Bob Brewin. NextGov, May 14, 2012. "The Veterans Affairs Department has kicked off a pilot project to map the data in its Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA) to a new open healthcare data dictionary developed by 3M Company..."
Added: 16 May 2012;
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- Senators Give the Nod to a New Maternal Health App
- by Joseph Marks, NextGov, May 15, 2012. "Did you miss Mother's Day? You're not alone. A bipartisan group of senators announced Tuesday they'll be honoring Mother’s Day Thursday with a briefing on the text4baby app, which texts prenatal tips to expectant mothers based on the stage of their pregnancy..."
Added: 16 May 2012;
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- Open source test results service adopted by renal patients
- UK-wide online system letting patients see results within hours of a test may be used by other specialities, by SA Mathieson. Guardian Professional, Friday 4 May 2012. "Patients of 53 renal units across the UK are accessing results and clinical letters through a secure online system, often meaning they get the information faster than their GPs. Renal PatientView is used by 19,000 patients who have opted-in to accessing their results online. The system also lets patients add their own data - such blood pressure - access online information about their condition and is being adapted to allow them to pass comments on their care back to hospital units..."
Added: 10 May 2012;
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- HHS readies for Facebook organ donation initiative
- By Alice Lipowicz. Federal Computer Week, May 1, 2012. "The Health and Human Services Department is preparing for a surge of interest in organ donation due to a new initiative announced May 1 by Facebook. Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company would begin allowing users to publish their organ donor status on their Timeline profiles. The social network also plans to help its 160 million users in the United States locate and sign up with state donor registries..."
Added: 3 May 2012;
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- Social media 'likes' healthcare: From marketing to social business
- PriceWaterhouse Coopers, Health Research Institute, April 2012. "Social media is changing the nature and speed of health care interaction between consumers and health organizations. This in-depth HRI report dives into what some of the largest health care companies are doing in and with social media. The report's findings are based on a survey of more than 1,000 consumers and 124 health care executives... According to PwC’s consumer survey of 1,060 U.S. adults, about one-third of consumers are using the social space as a natural habitat for health discussions. Social media typically consists of four characteristics that have changed the nature of interactions among people and organizations: user generated content, community, rapid distribution, and open, two-way dialogue. This report dives into the social world of the health industry and provides insights into new and emerging relationships between consumers and the biggest health companies that serve them. It examines how individuals think about and use the social channel; how some providers, insurers, medical device, and pharmaceutical companies are responding; and discusses specific implications for organizations to take advantage of with this new view into the 21st century patient..."
Added: 27 April 2012;
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- Health Care Orgs Lag in Social Media
- by Erik Sass, The Social Graf, April 17, 2012. "Health care organizations, including hospitals, health insurers and pharmaceutical companies, lag far behind consumers in social media adoption, according to a new Pricewaterhouse Coopers report titled “Social media likes healthcare: From marketing to social business,” based on a social media survey of over 1,000 U.S. consumers and 124 members of the eHealth Initiative (eHI) -- a national association of industry organizations focusing on health information and technology. While that finding isn’t particularly surprising, given institutional inertia and the volume of regulation they have to deal with, PwC points out that health care orgs are neglecting a major channel for patient acquisition and retention..."
Added: 27 April 2012;
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