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Enhance clinical performance through digital technology in MR systems

New Age Healthcare

Technology advent in the field of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has to led to faster contrast scans, simplified imaging workflows, high quality images and accelerated patient throughput. To keep up with the pace of the changing technology and rising diagnosis and clinical needs, many new MRI machines have been entering market since last half a decade.

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New Diabetes Charity Will Offer Rx Assistance and More

Insulin Nation

Earlier this month, we reported on two Ohio parents who are doing amazing things in the wake of tragedy. After their adult son, Kevin, died from diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), Dan and Judy Houdeshell began advocating for their state and others to pass laws authorizing pharmacists to dispense insulin and other life-saving medications without a prescription.

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New-age technology to battle drinking-water pollution

New Age Healthcare

Water pollution is a serious perennial problem in India as over 60% of its surface water resources and groundwater reserves are contaminated by biological, toxic, organic, and inorganic pollutants. Increasing urbanization, agricultural practices, industrialization and harmful human practices are the leading cause of this water pollution. The paucity of clean drinking water leads to hazards such as diarrhoea, cholera, filariasis, etc.

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Risk Assessment for Telehealth

American Well

When dealing with any networked system, risk is an inherent part of the situation. This is true even for the big boys and girls at the NSA. However, there are tried and proven methods to minimize risk before a breach happens and to curtail damage once it does. Any plan and response to the risks of online hazards starts with a risk assessment. Like this one, later stages differ in details for each individual case, but all include making a plan, implementing it, and mitigating the effects of a bre

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HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?

Colington Consulting was established in 2013 and helps organizations achieve HIPAA compliance and ensures clients stay current with the latest enforcement trends. We provide a full range of HIPAA compliance services and consulting. What separates us from our competitors is our knowledge of HIPAA compliance regulations and their application to each of our client’s particular scenarios and requirements.

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New-age technology to battle drinking-water pollution

New Age Healthcare

Water pollution is a serious perennial problem in India as over 60% of its surface water resources and groundwater reserves are contaminated by biological, toxic, organic, and inorganic pollutants. Increasing urbanization, agricultural practices, industrialization and harmful human practices are the leading cause of this water pollution. The paucity of clean drinking water leads to hazards such as diarrhoea, cholera, filariasis, etc.

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Enhance clinical performance through digital technology in MR systems

New Age Healthcare

Technology advent in the field of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has to led to faster contrast scans, simplified imaging workflows, high quality images and accelerated patient throughput. To keep up with the pace of the changing technology and rising diagnosis and clinical needs, many new MRI machines have been entering market since last half a decade.

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INFOGRAPHIC: How to Respond to IRS Letter 226J

ACA Times

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is complex. The ACA Penalty Process now being initiated by the IRS is no exception. With 30 days to respond upon receipt of IRS Letter 226J (you may want to request a reasonable extension), the process your organization undertakes to develop your response needs to be focused and efficient. A new infographic is now available that outlines the process of responding to Letter 226J, which can serve as a guide as you set up your internal process to develop a response.

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“Apple announces effortless solution bringing health records to iPhone”

mHealth Insight

“Apple today introduced a significant update to the Health app with the iOS 11.3 beta, debuting a feature for customers to see their medical records right on their iPhone” 24 January 2018, Apple Newsroom. mHealth Insights. Since June 2010 we have been providing Facetime Video Consults with registered Doctors (in the UK and Ireland where our Doctors are registered) via 3G Doctor and it’s abundantly clear that the value and usefulness that the independent impartial advice of a

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“Spider Web” String Would Replace Insulin Therapy

Insulin Nation

A research team at Cornell University has developed a device that could improve management of Type 1 diabetes. The group, directed by Biological and Environmental Engineering professor Minglin Ma, has created a method for implanting hundreds of thousands of glucose-sensing islet cells. (In Type 1 diabetes, islet cells in the pancreas are destroyed by the immune system.

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The Secret to Supercharging Your Organizations Communications

Effective collaboration among all care team members is critical to delivering better patient outcomes. A key element to achieving effective collaboration is through the implementation of a clinical communication and collaboration platform. In a fast-paced, high-stress and critical environment, people tend to do whatever gets the job done. Therefore will scramble and use the systems, people, or processes around them to get an outcome more quickly - which can often be at the expense of quality.

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Apple’s new health data download feature: nice start, but little use for sick people

Society for Participatory Medicine

The health IT sphere is abuzz with Apple’s groundbreaking announcement yesterday of the new ability, in the beta version of iOS 11.3, to download lab results, allergies, “problem lists,” etc. from multiple hospitals. So far twelve hospitals have signed on as participants. You can read Apple’s announcement or search for it on Google.