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Ex-Novell CTO takes Web leadership post

If you had any doubts that the iPhone must now be considered one of the world’s most important gaming platforms, this week’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco will try to put them to rest once and for all.

For years, GDC, as it’s known, has hosted two days of “summits” early in the week, before the main keynote address and the bulk of the panels and sessions begin, including the longstanding GDC Mobile, which dealt with just about every issue a developer could want on mobile and handheld devices.

And this year is no exception. Starting Tuesday, the GDC Mobile/Handheld summit will begin, offering 18 discussions on things like “bootstrapping games on Android;” “Creating augmented reality experiences on Nintendo DSi;” “Social networks: The new marketplace for mobile games?” and more. There’s even one called “Get your iPhone game to 2,000 other devices.”

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MacBook Pro sports Core i7 chip label at Best Buy

Best Buy is showing a MacBook Pro page with an Intel Core i7 chip logo. Is Best Buy trying to tell us something? Though undoubtedly a mistake, Best Buy may be telegraphing Apple products to come. The Web page is here as of 6:30 p.m. PST on Sunday. Intel Core i7 label appears on Best Buy page for 15-inch MacBook Pro.

Apple aficionados have been waiting patiently for Apple to update its MacBook Pro line with Intel’s latest and greatest Core i series of processors, including the mobile Core i5 and i7, which were rolled out at the Consumer Electronics Show in January.

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Surecripts: E-Prescribing has reached its tipping point

ATLANTA – This past year has been the “tipping point” for e-prescribing says Surescripts CEO and President Harry Totonis.
Alexandria, Va.-based Surescripts is releasing its 2009 National Progress Report on E-Prescribing Monday at HIMSS.

- The report, the third that the vendor has released, shows significant growth in the services that support the e-prescribing process as well as in its adoption by prescribers, payers and pharmacies.

- The report shows the following increase in participation and use in e-prescribing from 2008-2009:

- The number of prescribers routing prescriptions electronically grew from 74,000 to 156,000.

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CHIME airs “critical concerns” about EHR incentive program

ANN ARBOR, MI – The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives filed its comments regarding the EHR Incentive Program with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Friday. The comments address what the Ann Arbor, Mich.-based organization calls “critical concerns” regarding the proposed regulations that were unveiled on December 30, 2009.

The organization, which has 1,400 members representing chief information officers and other top information technology executives at many of the nation’s largest hospitals, coordinated efforts with other industry organizations, such as the American Hospital Association, to thoroughly research key concerns and reach a consensus on responses that provide guidance on how to successfully roll out the incentive program, said officials.

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iTunes hits 10 billion downloads

Happy birthday, Johnny Cash. And congratulations, Louie Sulcer.

In a press release, Apple announced today that its iTunes Store had topped 10 billion song purchases and downloads. (Seems like only yesterday it was hitting 1 billion.) The 10 billionth song was Johnny Cash’s “Guess Things Happen That Way,” an early Cash song from his album “Sings the Songs That Made Him Famous,” and it was purchased by Sulcer, of Woodstock, Georgia. (By coincidence, Cash would have celebrated his 78th birthday tomorrow.)

For his impeccable timing (and, it must be added, terrific taste), Sulcer will receive a $10,000 iTunes gift card.

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Why Google Buzz will be a hit

Google Buzz, Google’s new social networking service announced this week, isn’t particularly original.

Just like Facebook and Twitter, it lets you share links, updates and media with friends. Even so, it’ll probably be a moderate success.

Google Buzz is perhaps the most generic “social sharing” service launched to date. Users can enable the service in their Gmail accounts to share status updates, photos, videos and more with the group of people they e-mail most often.

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Survey provides “snapshot” of health IT jobs

SALT LAKE CITY – Health professionals believe that between 50,000 and 200,000 new jobs will be created in health IT by the year 2015, according to a recent survey.

The American Society of Health Informatics Managers (ASHIM), a nonprofit healthcare organization for health IT professionals, conducted the survey in response to data from the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, which indicated a national deficit of qualified health IT workers. ASHIM officials said the survey’s purpose was to provide an early stage snapshot of the jobs activities taking place around health IT in the United States.

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MEDai to roll out platform for Tennessee HIE

CHATTANOOGA, TN – Shared Health, Tennessee’s largest public/private health information exchange (HIE) has tapped MEDai, an Elsevier company, to provide an interoperable, HIE platform to the state.

The Shared Health Clinical Xchange platform is designed to help physician practices operate more efficiently and deliver better patient care by bringing patient-centric information from an entire healthcare team to the point of care, Shared Health executives say.

By merging key clinical data with administrative data, Clinical Xchange takes practices “out of the silo” and delivers a comprehensive clinical decision support solution, said Bruce Taffel, MD, vice president and chief medical officer of Shared Health.

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Google to buy search engine Aardvark

We’ve just confirmed with Google that the company has signed an agreement to acquire social search engine Aardvark.

Google isn’t disclosing the terms, but news of the acquisition was first reported by TechCrunch, who put the figure at around $50 million. Google told us that it’s “signed an agreement to acquire Aardvark but don’t have any additional details to report at this time.”

Aardvark is a relatively new startup from former Googlers that uses social distribution channels to get immediate answers to your questions.

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Yahoo struggles to gain search respect

The Rodney Dangerfield of search engines is starting to get a little annoyed about its plight.

Yahoo hosted a search event at its headquarters Wednesday that seemed designed mainly to remind the Silicon Valley press that it is still working on Internet search. A few new projects were shown off, such as an interesting mobile search feature that lets you draw a circle around an area of a map to narrow search results called Sketch-a-search.

But the vast majority of the morning’s event — led by new search chief Shashi Seth — was a reiteration of Yahoo’s strategy for organizing “a Web of things” as opposed to a Web of links, with the implication that rival Google is only good at returning a sea of links.

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IT ideas”>VA asks its employees for health IT ideas</a>

WASHINGTON – The Veterans Affairs Department has launched a competition among its employees to see who can come up with the

best ideas for how to use health IT to improve the agency’s healthcare practices and treatments.

VA will choose 100 of the ideas and invite their authors to submit full proposals.

Federal and contract employees of the Veterans Health Administration and the department’s Office of Information and

Technology have until Feb. 21 to  submit their ideas, comment on them and vote on the best proposals, said Gerald Cross,

acting VA under secretary for health.

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<a href=”http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/internet-role-consumer-healthcare-reigns-supreme” title=”Internet role in consumer healthcare reigns supreme”>Internet role in consumer healthcare reigns supreme</a>

NEW YORK – The Internet has considerably more influence over consumer health decisions and actions than traditional channels like print, TV and radio, according to a new report from Manhattan Research.

“Health Influence Mapping: Benchmarking the Influence of Various Sources on Consumer Health Actions” points out that though the Internet’s role in healthcare has soared over the past decade, healthcare professionals still have the strongest effect on consumer health behavior.

“With all the changes in media and healthcare, we think it’s critical for marketers to take a step back and check their assumptions around the relative influence of various health sources on consumer behavior,” said Monique Levy, senior director of research at Manhattan Research and lead author of the report.

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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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