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WEDNESDAY BLOTTER: It’s simply amazing that Apple iPhones and iPads continue to dominate technology conversations, despite the impressive advances of competing Android smart phones and tablets. Further illustrated in the wake of Steve Jobs’s unfortunate death last week, Apple has done a masterful job of producing products that have become part of our lives that [...]

It’s October, which means the leaves are probably starting to turn colors in northern states, lucky baseball fans whose teams qualified for the playoffs have likely bitten their fingernails off by now (go Rangers!) and those of us in the southern half of the country are finally able to comfortably wear long pants again. To [...]

1. Health insurance costs spiked 8-9% in 2011. It’s no secret that we’re paying more for health insurance every year, but never before has the increase been so high. The Kaiser Family Foundation released a study Tuesday that showed the average annual premium for employer-provided family coverage in 2011 was $15,073, a staggering amount that [...]

While National Health IT Week technically is over, it still feels like it’s going on in our offices (naturally). There’s not as much chatter on the web so far this week, but that has only made it easier to find some good information to share with the HL7standards and #HITsm community. HIE and ACO Front [...]

Sorry for the delayed posting, but I took some time to sit in on today’s National eHealth Collaborative’s informative webinar, HIT Orientation. The webinar was held in conjunction with National Health IT Week, which is this week. Gwenn Darlinger, an employee of Blue Cross and Blue Shield, presented a comprehensive overview of the history of [...]