October 2009

Health Wonk Review: Killer viruses and the undead public option

This week’s Health Wonk Review (our Health Policy and IT Carnival) is available at Tinker Ready’s Boston Health Blog. It’s got lots of scary photos but don’t let that keep you from seeing what’s going on this week. Share this:EmailFacebookLinkedInSharePrintStumbleUponRedditDigg

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DeepDyve: Like iTunes for Scientific and Medical Papers & Research

John Biggs at TechCrunch says DeepDyve is like iTunes for Scientific and Papers. The DeepDyve site, launched today, offers full-text search of scientific articles along with 99 cent downloads and a subscription service that allows you to read as many papers as you’d like. Articles cost 99 cents for 24 hours and an unlimited plan [...]

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GE wants to fund your healthcare technology idea

General Electric (GE) unveiled its $250 million GE Healthymagination Fund which was created to make investments in promising healthcare technology companies. If you’ve got some good ideas and think you can get the concepts to market, start your business plan and get in line for the money. Like most VCs, they will probably be very [...]

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Is EMR Adoption on the Rise? Or is the market frozen until next year?

I got a note from the nice folks at Software Advice reminding us that this Friday marks the close of the first reporting period for Recovery Act funds. Any grants or loans awarded between February 17th (the signing of the bill) and September 30th will be reported in the survey (and subsequently show up at [...]

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101 Ways to Use Twitter in Your Hospital

The LPN to RN Blog has a nice posting on 101 Ways to Use Twitter in Your Hospital. It’s worth checking out. Share this:EmailFacebookLinkedInSharePrintStumbleUponRedditDigg

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The Looming Problem in Healthcare EDI: ICD-10 and HIPAA 5010 migration

On Jan. 15, 2009 the United States Department of Health and Human Services released the final rules for the updated X12 Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) transaction definitions, version 005010 to be used in conjunction with HIPAA and completed by January 2013. At the same time, the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) standard has been bumped [...]

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