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    EXPAND: Key EU Project Presents Findings on Interoperability

    • IT
    • 27/11/2015

    An exciting event about the future of interoperability in the European Healthcare sector takes place in Lisbon next week with a focus on assets’ collection and usability plus actions needed...

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    Payment Barriers Deter Telehealth Adoption

    • IT
    • 22/11/2015

    A national survey found that 9 out of 10 physicians in the U.S. would use telehealth, provided they were properly reimbursed. The majority of physicians surveyed cite administrative issues and a lack...

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    Flexible Robotic Worm Optimises Surgery

    • IT
    • 17/11/2015

    Surgeons may one day be able to remove tumours from within the inner ear in a less invasive fashion — ie, without removing the entire mastoid bone. All they will need to do is cut a tunnel of 5 mm...

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    Wireless Devices Manage Pain Signals

    • IT
    • 17/11/2015

    New implantable wireless devices can be used to trigger — and, in theory, block — pain signals in the body and spinal cord before those signals reach the brain, according to a new study published...

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    Big Data Cuts Readmissions

    • IT
    • 16/11/2015

    Use of big data has helped University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), the second largest integrated payer-provider network in the USA, reduce readmissions. The key was to combine data from both...

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    Health Exams Alter With New Device

    • IT
    • 16/11/2015

    A new smartphone-based device known as HeartBuds is just as effective as traditional stethoscopes and better than a disposable model in identifying heart murmurs and other vital sounds during patient...

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    Top 10 List of Health Tech Hazards

    • IT
    • 16/11/2015

    Infections from flexible endoscopes, missed alarms, and opioid-related deaths are the top health technology hazards that hospitals and clinicians have to deal with in 2016, according to a new report...

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    Health Apps Downloaded But Not Used Effectively

    • IT
    • 11/11/2015

    Findings of an online survey show that while fitness and other health-related smartphone apps are acquired in large numbers by Americans, most are left unused after being downloaded. The study w

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    Patients Prefer Portals for Test Results

    • IT
    • 03/11/2015

    According to findings from a new study, patients prefer to receive the results of medical tests through password-protected patient portal websites. The survey is published in the Journal of the

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    Are EHRs Letting Patients Down?

    • IT
    • 02/11/2015

    Use of electronics health records (EHRs) is important in achieving coordinated care that leads to a better patient experience. While U.S. government initiatives have helped widen EHR adoption — the...

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