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One in three hospitals has social media plan

ATLANTA – According to a new study, as many as 90 percent of hospitals and health systems use social media, but just one in three has a formal social media plan in place – something researchers say is key to using such media successfully.



The survey, which was conducted by Atlanta-based Greystone.Net, a provider of Web-related services for hospitals and healthcare organizations, finds that nine in ten hospital or health system of those surveyed are currently involved in social media to some degree.

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Government to test ease of use for health IT systems

WASHINGTON – The Commerce Department’s National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) plans to develop standards to help evaluate the ease-of-use of healthcare IT systems.

In a notice on a federal contracting Web site, NIST announced it was looking for companies to create a “usability framework” for health IT systems. The job would require “development, refinement and harmonization of HIT usability standards and certification processes.”

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Chicago health system offers its employees a PHR

CHICAGO – Vanguard Health Systems will soon offer a personal health record to its employees.

Officials at the Chicago-based health system said the PHR, developed by Dossia, will only be offered to a select group of employees. The system plans to make it available to all employees by the end of the year, and officials also announced plans to offer the PHR to patients of Vanguard’s 15 acute care hospitals and complementary facilities in Chicago, Phoenix, Ariz., San Antonio, Texas and Massachusetts.

“I am very pleased that Vanguard is able to offer the Dossia Personal Health Record to our employees,” said Brad Perkins, MD, Vanguard’s executive vice president of strategy and innovation and chief transformation officer. “We see Dossia as an integral component of our efforts to innovate and change healthcare for the better. Real change will only come once individuals have access to and control over their information.”

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Grassley inquires about hospitals’ IT experiences

WASHINGTON – Close on the heels of a letter sent to several IT infrastructure companies this past fall, in which he investigated “complaints and/or concerns” he’d received about electronic medical records, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) has issued another missive to 31 American hospitals.

In his letter, Grassley asks those providers 11 detailed questions about their experiences so far with the purchasing and implementation of healthcare IT.

With $19 billion from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act earmarked for medical information technology, Grassley writes that he has “a special responsibility to protect the health of the [IT] programs’ more than 100 million beneficiaries as well as the congressionally authorized tax dollars used to fund” them.

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Tech Boom: Intel’s Earnings Up an Astounding 875%

We thought Zillow’s 2011 IPO was a good sign for the tech and Internet market. Intel has not only just confirmed that notion, but blown everybody’s expectations right out of the water.

The world’s largest chipmaker just wowed Wall Street and the tech world with its latest earnings report. The publicly-traded company reported a net income of $2.3 billion in the fourth quarter of 2009, up an amazing 875% from its $234 million earnings in the fourth quarter of 2008. This more than beat Wall Street expectations.

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Mac and iPhone Devs Donate App Proceeds to Haiti

The Mac and iPhone development community is doing something pretty special to raise money and awareness for the victims of Tuesday’s devastating earthquake in Haiti: donating the proceeds of app sales to Haitian aid organizations.

Yesterday, Mac developer Mike Piatek-Jimenez did something really cool: He announced that through the end of January, 100 percent of the sales proceeds (minus the $3 processing fee) from his Mac OS X weather app, Seasonality, would be donated to Partners in Health for earthquake relief. Not only is the sentiment stellar, but the weather association adds a really neat twist.

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Glitch strands Microsoft business customers

Microsoft’s efforts to revamp a Web site that handles software licensing for businesses have resulted in hours of frustration for some of the company’s most loyal customers.

Problems arose early last month when Microsoft aimed to consolidate three separate Web sites into a single, more secure site. Almost immediately, Microsoft could tell something was wrong as customers were unable to sign into the site.

While unable to log in, business customers and the partners that manage software for businesses can’t do things like download software, obtain necessary license keys, and manage volume licenses.

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Near-final Firefox 3.6 out for testing

Mozilla has released its first release candidate, RC1, for Firefox 3.6.

The new version includes Personas, which lets people customize the browser’s appearance; blocks third-party software from encroaching on its file system turf to increase stability; and perhaps most significantly given the competitive threat from Google Chrome, shortens start-up time and improves responsiveness and JavaScript performance.

Firefox 3.6 RC1 is available from Mozilla’s download site.

People can notice skins and better performance, but there also are changes deeper under the hood that developers should know about. One is support for the File interface, which can help with tasks like uploading multiple photos and is part of the draft HTML5 standard effort. Another deeper change is running scripts asynchronously, which can help load a Web page faster by putting off some work until the high-priority chores are complete.

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VA, Kaiser link electronic health record systems

WASHINGTON – The Veterans Affairs Department and healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente have begun to share electronic health record information of patients who receive care services from both providers in the San Diego area.

The project represents an important milestone in large institutional electronic health record sharing and advances a presidential priority to create a lifelong virtual record for military families, VA and Kaiser officials said at a press teleconference.

Physicians in both healthcare systems began sharing patient problem lists, medications and allergies records last month. Until this pilot, the VA was unable to share patient information electronically with commercial hospitals and specialists to which veterans were outside the VA healthcare system.

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CHIME voices concerns about meaningful use, standards regulations

ANN ARBOR, MI – The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives says questions on reporting, product certification and implementation deadlines could hinder efforts to implement electronic health records under recently proposed federal regulations.

CHIME is reviewing the recently released regulations to implement healthcare information technology provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). Officials said several provisions in the regulations merit closer scrutiny and could pose significant challenges for providers hoping to implement electronic health records.

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What brought AT&T to its knees?

A rash of online fraud in New York may have done what Operation Chokehold couldn’t. Why did AT&T Wireless (T) halt online sales of Apple (AAPL) iPhones in New York City the weekend after Christmas? None of the answers AT&T has given so far make much sense.

The new policy was first reported to The Consumerist’s Laura Northrup by a reader in Brooklyn. In a blog entry posted Sunday afternoon, Northrup suggested that AT&T had found a novel solution to the city’s data congestion problems: it had simply stopped selling iPhones to online customers in the metropolitan area. “The phone is not offered to you,” a sales rep told Northrup, “because New York is not ready for the iPhone.”

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Ford brings Wi-Fi to the highway

Ford is making its cars into mobile Wi-Fi hot spots.

The next generation of the Sync in-car entertainment and information system will use a USB mobile broadband modem to establish a secure wireless connection capable of supporting several devices simultaneously.

The system will be available next year on selected models — no word yet which ones — and you won’t need a subscription or hardware beyond the modem.

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Microsoft exec: Mac OS inspired Windows 7

Intel and Advanced Micro Devices on Thursday announced a comprehensive agreement to end all outstanding legal disputes between the two chipmakers.

The pact covers both antitrust litigation and patent cross-license disputes, which have been churning since 2004.

Under terms of the agreement, the two companies will obtain patent rights from a new five-year cross-license agreement and will give up any claims of breach from the previous license agreement.

In addition, Intel will pay AMD $1.25 billion and has agreed to “abide by a set of business practice provisions.”

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After 5 years, Firefox faces new challenges

Five years ago, Mozilla made it clear that the browser wars weren’t over after all.

In the 1990s, Netscape had lost its dominance in the browser market to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, and the Netscape-spawned open-source project called Mozilla had sunk into obscurity. Even a federal antitrust suit accusing Microsoft of anticompetitive practices with its browser and Windows was not enough to turn the tide.

But on November 9, 2004, Firefox 1.0 emerged to fight back again.

The project, originally named Phoenix to symbolize rebirth from Netscape’s ashes, has now clawed its way back to account for nearly a quarter of the browser usage today. Microsoft may not be on the run, but it’s on the defensive, gradually building its browser development effort back up into fighting form.

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Coleman Research Group’s Healthcare department highlights eClinicalWorks and Merge Healthcare releases new surgery management system

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eClinicalWorks delivers EMR to nine Metropolitan Health facilities

eClinicalWorks, based in Westborough, Mass., has announced that Metropolitan Health Networks, Inc., (Metcare) of West Palm Beach, Fla., has selected the company’s electronic medical record and practice management solution for its nine wholly-owned internal medicine offices in south and central Florida.

Merge Healthcare, based in Milwaukee, has released Frontiers 4.2.2, a surgery management solution designed to improve hospital workflow by capturing and charting clinical data throughout the perioperative care process (pre-surgical screening, operating room and recovery).

The Perot Systems Corporation, based in Plano, Texas, has announced an agreement with the Hunan Provincial Government of the People’s Republic of China that authorizes Perot to provide IT consulting services for healthcare organizations and public health initiatives throughout the province.

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Merge Healthcare Releases New Surgery Management System

Merge Healthcare, (Nasdaq: MRGE), a health IT solutions provider, today announced the release of Frontiers™ 4.2.2, a surgery management solution that improves hospital workflow by capturing and charting clinical data throughout the entire perioperative-care process (pre-surgical screening, operating room and recovery). Frontiers automates the demanding clinical and business documentation requirements in the operating room, allowing clinicians and physicians to better focus on patient care.

“We’ve found the Frontiers’ real-time, accurate charting of all clinical data is not only a tremendous time-saver for our clinicians, but also an indispensable solution to charge/procedure capture and transmission for maximum profitability,” says Susan McAndrews, RN, MSA, CASC, Vice President of Ambulatory Services at Riverside Health System, Newport News, Virginia. “The entire charting process takes our clinicians and physicians seconds to complete, while at the same time ensures documentation-compliance with all quality, regulatory and best practice standards of performance.”

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‘FarmVille’ gamemaker Zynga sees dollar signs

At least one company is making money off of social networking. The game developer behind ‘FarmVille’ and ‘Mafia Wars’ has seen its web-based games take off – and deliver profits.

On any given day 500,000 tractors are sold on the Internet. But don’t start buying stock in John Deere or Caterpillar just yet. These are $20 “virtual” tractors that belong to the 50 million players of FarmVille, the largest and fastest-growing social game on the Internet.

Social games are free online applications accessed through sites such as MySpace and Facebook. If you’ve spent any time on either site you’re probably familiar with titles such as FarmVille, Mafia Wars, and Caf World. All three games, which rank among the top five games played daily on Facebook, were developed by San Francisco-based Zynga, one of the tech sector’s most talked-about companies these days.

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How Apple is gaining on Microsoft

A year ago we ran a bar graph similar to the one at right. It showed that Apple (AAPL), despite the Mac’s tiny market share compared with Microsoft (MSFT) Windows, was gaining on the software giant. The main reason: revenue pouring in from the iPhone but hidden as deferred earnings in Apple’s balance sheet. (That chart is posted below the fold.)

Last week Apple and Microsoft once again reported quarterly earnings — and enjoyed nice pops on the stock market. But their growth rates turn out to be very different.

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Mylan Receives FDA Approval for Generic Version of Anticonvulsant Topamax Sprinkle Capsules

Mylan Inc. (NASDAQ:MYL) today announced that its subsidiary Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) for Topiramate Capsules (Sprinkle), 15 mg and 25 mg.

Topiramate Capsules (Sprinkle) are the generic version of Ortho McNeil’s anticonvulsant Topamax® Sprinkle Capsules, 15 mg and 25 mg. For the 12 months ending June 30, 2009, Topiramate Capsules (Sprinkle) had U.S. sales of approximately $58 million for the same strengths, according to IMS Health. Mylan has launched this product.

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New FDA Web Page Lists Disposal Instructions for Select Medicines

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today launched a Web page for consumers with information on how to dispose of certain drugs, including several high-potency opioids and other selected controlled substances. These medicines have the potential to be harmful, even deadly, in a single dose if taken by someone other than the intended person.

The FDA recommends that these medicines be disposed of by flushing down the sink or toilet. The goal is to keep them away from children and others who could be harmed by taking them accidentally.

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