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Zoeticx Middleware API Unifies Incompatible Electronic Medical Records

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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Zoeticx has written middleware which can unify data from any current provider into a single common format. Their newly released API provides easy access to that middleware, enabling developers to easily write applications against multiple databases storing records in different formats. There are currently over 350 competing formats for storing […]

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Costs Can Go Up Fast When E.R. Is in Network but the Doctors Are Not

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When Jennifer Hopper raced to the emergency room after her husband, Craig, took a baseball in the face, she made sure they went to a hospital in their insurance network in Texas. So when they got a $937 bill from the emergency room doctor, she called the insurer, assuming it was in error. But the

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Roche Breast Cancer Drug Appears to Greatly Extend Patients’ Lives

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Follow us on Twitter: GoAfricaNetwork A drug used to treat advanced breast cancer has had what appears to be unprecedented success in prolonging lives in a clinical trial, researchers reported on Sunday. Patients who received the drug — Perjeta, from the Swiss drug maker Roche — had a median survival time nearly 16 months longer

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Your Surgeon Seems Qualified, but Can He Type?

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Like many clinics nationwide, my surgery office recently started using electronic medical records. Headaches and glitches abound, but over all, it has been a godsend: no more lost forms, deciphering lousy handwriting or waiting endlessly for someone to “pull the chart” if you want to look up a patient. Everything’s in one centralized computer system,

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Health Law Falls Flat With Kentucky Voters, Even Those It Helps

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Robin Evans said that while she does not support the senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes or President Obama she has taken advantage of the Affordable Health Care act.  LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Affordable Care Act allowed Robin Evans, an eBay warehouse packer earning $9 an hour, to sign up for Medicaid this year. She is being

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Maker of Hepatitis C Drug Strikes Deal on Generics for Poor Countries

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Follow on Twitter @GoAfricaNetwork NEW DELHI — The maker of one of the costliest drugs in the world announced on Monday that it had struck agreements with seven Indian generic drug makers to sell lower-cost versions of its $1,000-a-pill Hepatitis C drug in poorer countries. Gilead Sciences, the California-based drug maker, also said it will begin

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Many in West Africa May Be Immune to Ebola Virus

Health news, West Africa health news /

Although few medical experts realize it, part of the population in West Africa is immune to the Ebola virus, according to virologists who specialize in the disease. Assuming they are correct, and if those people can be identified, they could be a great help in fighting the outbreak. Immune persons could safely tend the sick

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Two Vaccines to Protect Against Ebola Could Be Available Within Weeks

Health news, West Africa health news /

Two potential vaccines against the deadly Ebola virus ravaging West Africa could be available as soon as November and would first be given to health care workers most at risk of exposure to the disease there, the World Health Organization announced on Friday. The organization also announced that blood from recovered Ebola patients and serums

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F.D.A. Allows First Use of a Novel Cancer Drug

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The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved the first of an eagerly awaited new class of cancer drugs that unleashes the body’s immune system to fight tumors. The drug, which Merck will sell under the name Keytruda, was approved for patients with advanced melanoma who have exhausted other therapies.

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Are EHRs Life Savers? Maybe So, According to Preliminary Research

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Can the adoption and implementation of electronic health records (EHRs) be tied to hospital performance and lowered mortality rates? While we might be a bit of time away from being able to make that precise claim, new research does suggest a measurable beneficial relationship.

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