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One week after unveiling its Patient Engagement Framework, the National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) has launched an online tool meant to help health organizations track their progress on involving patients in their care.
January 1, 2013
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Healthcare IT News has selected six up-and-coming health IT gurus who have made a name for themselves in the industry -- all before their 30th birthday. These best and brightest show that in health IT, wisdom has little to do with age.
December 18, 2012
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Catholic Health Initiatives is joining forces with Houston-based Encore Health Resources to develop a set of tools to transform data generated by its electronic health records to measure quality and cost and manage patient populations.
December 7, 2012
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IBM has announced plans to establish a new analytics center, dedicated to advancing research, development and skills training in the areas of analytics, big data and cognitive computing. The center could create 500 jobs in Columbus, Ohio over the next three years, officials say.
November 30, 2012
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Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) can be hazardous to your company's health, business experts often warn. In the realm of health IT, this maxim is no less true.
November 21, 2012
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The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) announced Nov. 16 it will spend $12 million to support research that addresses methodological gaps in outcomes research.
November 19, 2012
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Companies and their employees have a lot to gain from on-site health clinics, but fear over health information privacy still remains a hurdle, according to speakers at the 17th Annual National Business Coalition on Health, held Nov. 12-14.
November 15, 2012
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Target's employee well-being program, which includes a website for employees, has proven to boost sales in the two years since it was launched, according to Dawne Carlson, director of Organizational Effectiveness, Target Corporation.
November 14, 2012
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Targeting chronic conditions such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease and osteoporosis, the Regenstrief Institute and Merck have signed a five-year agreement that will see them collaborating on novel ways to use clinical data to inform personalized delivery of healthcare.
November 8, 2012
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Farzad Mostashari, MD, the national health IT coordinator, said that data and analytics played a critical role in the campaign and re-election of President Barack Obama -- mirroring the growing importance of data in healthcare.
November 8, 2012
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A new global study by the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics shows that the use of healthcare IT to increase medication adherence could be a key factor in saving some $500 billion in healthcare spending worldwide.
November 1, 2012
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Cleveland Clinic and IBM are partnering to increase the use of the Watson supercomputer in medical training. IBM researchers will work with Cleveland Clinic faculty and students to enhance Watson's Deep Question Answering technology for medicine.
October 30, 2012
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Healthcare providers are utilizing business intelligence solutions to analyze data such as revenue, staff performance and efficiency of operations. BI solutions, often manifested as informational dashboards, are increasingly included in hospital information systems and integrated with enterprise electronic health records. 
