DHS expands animal disease surveillance project
Phase II of the Enhanced Passive Surveillance project will expand the types of animals tracked and increase the user base.
IBM offers big data technology to federal healthcare
IBM announced new investments in its US Federal Healthcare Practice, adding big data programs for advanced clinical care and data management.
VA seeks GIS to track and treat outbreaks, chronic disease
The Veterans Affairs Department issued a request for information for a geographic information system to help track outbreaks and chronic disease in veterans and improve overall care.
Kentucky uses health network to divert 'frequent fliers' from ERs
The state launched an initiative to provide coordinated care for "super-utilizers," patients who overuse emergency departments and hospital inpatient services.
Biosurveillance bulks up
Researchers from Defense Threat Reduction Agency have been working to beef up the nation’s biosurveillance capabilities to provide early warning to warfighters and first responders.
Social media flu tracker gets local filter
Researchers have developed an algorithm to help track local cases of influenza through social media.
Defense teams rapidly deploy mobile, cloud biosurveillance tools
Teams from the Naval Research Laboratory and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency use Android-based handhelds to test and transmit field information on tropical diseases.
Stop the fear mongering over ICD-10: It's just another taxonomy
The complaints about the upgrade to ICD-10 health care codes illustrate common misconceptions about the organization and characteristics of big data sets.
Internet2's 100G network speeds genomics research
NIH and George Washington University researchers partner to accelerate genomics research using Internet2’s 100G network.
How MassHealth cut Medicaid fraud with predictive analytics
Predictive analytics system based on NetReveal fraud detection protects MassHealth from fraud and unnecessary expenditures.
Walter Reed launches mass communication system
The AtHoc Interactive Warning System enables IP communications and alerts across the Walter Reed campus.
How analytics sharpens state disease surveillance, lower costs
State public health agencies are turning to more advanced analytics in turning simple immunization registries into engines of population health management.
Mass HIway lets health providers easily swap medical records
Massachusetts' health info exchange helps providers locate, request and retrieve medical records from other participating providers on a secure, interconnected system.
CMS picks EHR systems for next health IT test
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services picked EHR systems that will be used to qualify health care providers for incentives designed to build a national health information network.
EHR safety guides target the health IT enterprise
The SAFER Guides offer best practices on system configuration, interfaces and contingency planning for ongoing patient safety programs.
'Build once, use often' guides Medicare.gov improvements
The Obama administration's open data framework set the stage for responsive design techniques used in the Medicare.gov upgrade and other planned improvements.
Data analytics charts new path to heart attack survival
A Wake County, N.C., EMS team uses data analytics to uncover a new treatment protocol that extends survival rates for heart attack patients.
NCI cracks open cancer research by moving it to the cloud
The agency is looking for cloud-based architectures to give cancer researchers complete bioinformatics infrastructure as a service, with built-in compute, storage, security and analytics.
Open-source community helps with emergency VistA patch
The nonprofit Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent spearheaded the effort to create an emergency patch to a security breach on VistA fortuitously discovered by a Georgia Tech grad student.
IBM introduces Watson to the public sector cloud
The IBM Watson Developers Cloud could help agencies tap the cognitive computing for fraud analysis, intelligence surveillance and more.
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