by medicaltechont | Apr 12, 2014 | Cloud, Healthcare, Software, Technology
The vast majority of those taking advantage of free, open-source software such as OpenSSL do nothing to contribute to its development—and that’s part of the problem.
Every day brings new reports of the threats posed by the Heartbleed bug. But the discovery of Heartbleed has also unearthed a scandal that’s plagued the open-source community for years. The scandal is that giant enterprises are doing nothing to contribute to the development, testing and validation of the free software on which they depend. They are takers, pure and simple. Nothing makes this more obvious than the details revealed by the German developer who was responsible for the bug in the first place, Dr. Robin Seggelmann. Dr. Seggelmann, it appears, was spending his end-of-the-year holiday working to fix bugs in the first version of OpenSSL, the encryption software that was becoming a standard on the Internet. While he was at it, Seggelmann developed a way to create a heartbeat function that could keep encrypted sessions open rather than timing out over time.
Read more at http://www.eweek.com/security/heartbleed-openssl-bug-reveals-the-true-cost-of-open-source-software.html
by medicaltechont | Apr 12, 2014 | Technology
(PRWEB) March 31, 2014
Presenting the top 3 reasons why all hospices need to fully automate workflow to meet demanding regulatory compliance requirements in 2014, Greene Health Care Inc. discusses the various updates being made in to their vendor’s hospice software, including the new Medication Management Solution to satisfy the constantly changing requirements for hospice care in 2014.
Streamlining the various processes involved in hospice care while ensuring that the ever-changing compliance standards are met requires smartly designed, intelligent, and more importantly user-centric EMR software. Greene Health Care clients have moved to an EMR software to automate their workflow while providing a robust reporting system, certifications, admissions, referrals, visit logs, level of care tracking, census tracking, A/R, revenue, medications management, among others. The hospice software also supports clinical charting for all disciplines, provides comprehensive assessments, customizable care plans, staff communications, certification tracking, claims/billing services, customizable alerts, IDG reporting, and a lot more.
Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/1820264#ixzz2y1g8cdXy
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by medicaltechont | Apr 10, 2014 | Technology
The mobile and tech industries continue to expand at an unprecedented rate, and over the last ten years, these we’ve seen these advances making headway into healthcare. A combination of telehealth, ehealth, and mobile health (mhealth) mean patients are increasingly engaged with their own healthcare, and doctors have ever-better tools to make healthcare faster, easier, and more efficient. We’ve profiled 6 mhealth projects, and looked forward to where digital healthcare is going.
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by medicaltechont | Apr 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
A comparison between the results of the 2007 and the 2010 National Physician Survey (NPS) shows that exclusive use of electronic medical records (EMRs) by family physicians, general physicians, and other specialists across Canada has increased from 10% to 16%. The province of Alberta leads the way with 28% of physicians exclusively using EMRs, followed by Ontario (20%) and British Columbia (19%).
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by medicaltechont | Apr 9, 2014 | Cloud, e-Health, EHR, Healthcare
New Brunswick has moved “from almost the worst in the country to near the front of the pack” for electronic medical record adoption, says the president of the New Brunswick Medical Society.
Dr. Lynn Hansen says 357 doctors out of the eligible 950 enrolled in the provincial program by this week’s deadline for federal funds.
Hundreds of thousands of New Brunswick patients will soon have digitized records, improving the efficiency and productivity of physician offices, she said in a statement on Thursday.
The e-record program will save the health care system money through better referral processes, fewer missed appointments and faster access to test results, said Hansen.
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The vast majority of those taking advantage of free, open-source software such as OpenSSL do nothing to contribute to its development—and that’s part of the problem.