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health information technology
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Poll shows most older adults use assistive tech to age in place
A new U.S. News survey finds that more seniors are adopting apps, wearables and services to help remain at home.
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Moore Foundation awards $500,000-plus grant to AHCJ
The Center for Excellence in Health Care Journalism, the educational arm of the Association of Health Care Journalists, has been…
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Is the ‘medical virtualist’ specialty coming to a health system near you?
The Journal of the American Medical Association not long ago published an online editorial by two physicians at NewYork-Presbyterian that called…
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Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation supports health IT training for journalists
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has awarded a three-year $230,000 grant to the Center for Excellence in Health Care…
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Why we still need human relationships in an era of digital medicine
Is computerized medicine all it’s cracked up to be? Or has it so dramatically eliminated the human factor that we…
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How close are we to meeting the promise of electronic health records?
Yes, technology is transforming health care. No, we haven’t come anywhere close to realizing the vision. Smooth patient handoffs, data-driven…
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Electronic records raise privacy concerns
On Bloomberg’s Tech Blog, Jordan Peterson has been regularly hammering away and exposing, piece by piece, the privacy concerns that…
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CPI investigation details health information technology sector’s lobbying efforts
Writing for The Center for Public Integrity’s iWatch News, Josh Israel reports that, with billions of stimulus dollars still at…
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Report explains doctors’ reluctance to adopt EMRs
Writing for the Center for Public Integrity’s iWatch News, Susan Jaffe spent time in the trenches to better understand how…
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Baby’s death illustrates how health IT can introduce complexity, error to system
Chicago Tribune reporters Judith Graham and Cynthia Dizikes explore the pitfalls of health information technology through the story of an…