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The Department of Veterans Affairs is encouraging veterans to participate in the Million Veterans Program, a research warehouse bringing together electronic health records with data from genomics and molecular biology.
November 26, 2012
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The Colorado Telehealth Network announced Wednesday it will enable hospitals, imaging centers and other providers throughout the state to safely store and share medical images through a private cloud hosted by Atlanta-based GNAX Health.
November 21, 2012
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has awarded a 10-year contract valued at up to $15 billion to eight vendors to compete to build various aspects of a virtual data center, which will provide the agency's IT infrastructure and services that operate its business systems and better safeguard its healthcare information.
November 21, 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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Marking a bridge's beginning, ONC has made it official: eHealth Exchange is standing on its own as a non-federal, nonprofit entity. ONC announced the new status on Oct. 11.
November 6, 2012
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The vendor-neutral archive (VNA) market is set to nearly double, to $210 million by 2018, according to a new report from Frost & Sullivan. Likewise, the market for picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) is set to more than double over the same period as providers scramble to manage exploding volumes of radiology data.
November 1, 2012
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A new project by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) aims to examine the relationship between health information technology and ambulatory workflows, according to the agency's Oct. 31 Federal Register notice.
October 31, 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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Responding to disasters is something every healthcare institution needs to be ready for. From hurricanes to snowstorms to wildfires, having a plan in place and technology to back it up is critical to an effective response.
October 29, 2012
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Deloitte Consulting announced Monday it has closed on a deal to acquire Recombinant Data Corporation, a Newton, Mass.-based healthcare data warehousing and analytics firm. The move signals the growing momentum toward using clinical data to transform healthcare, say Deloitte officials.
October 29, 2012
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Speaking via Skype at the first annual "WIRED Health Conference: Living By Numbers," on Tuesday, former Intel Chairman and CEO Andy Grove issued a call to arms to free healthcare data, making his case for radical price transparency in medicine.
October 17, 2012
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A $1 million grant awarded to Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality will fund research to address some of the challenges connected to EHRs and create smarter EHR systems.
October 12, 2012
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Hospitals require methods for storing, archiving and backing up massive amounts of data. Data warehousing is an especially important priority for healthcare providers who have seen an increase in data as they move from paper to digital records.
