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Cardinal Health…announced the introduction of the Adherence Advantage program, which features an expanded suite of solutions designed to help retail pharmacies improve medication adherence…

1. Cardinal Health Repackaging Solutions
2. Consumer adherence products
3. Dispill
4. Pharmacy Health Connect
5. Reimbursement Consulting Services

Young professionals see greater opportunity to disrupt care from outside provider organizations..."Dropout docs" are becoming more common, especially around Silicon Valley, as an increasing number...forego residency for digital health opportunities,...lowest rates of medical students pursing residency after medical school,...

Cyberattack occurred in September 2014, patients just notified ...four-hospital UCLA Health System on Friday notified a staggering 4.5 million of its patients that their protected health information and Social Security numbers were compromised following one of the largest HIPAA breaches ever reported.

Food and Drug Administration is talking to Google about how the search engine could help...identify previously unknown side effects of medications...using search query data to identify adverse drug reactions..

Athenahealth today unveiled athenaText, a secure text messaging service integrated with athenahealth’s cloud-based EHR platform. It is available free…to every healthcare professional across the country. (HIPAA compliant text messaging)

Public-private partnership would initially be federally funded...new Health IT Safety Center Roadmap lays out a...plan for creating a federal center focused on aggregating data on health IT-related adverse events. "The task force did not propose for the center to have a regulatory function, but to promote health IT safety by convening interested parties, doing focused work to identify and disseminate best practices,…"

CVS Health...shut down access to its online and related mobile photo services as the company investigates a potential data breach..."We have been made aware that customer credit card information collected by the independent vendor who manages and hosts CVSPhoto.com may have been compromised,"...

Healthcare Management Systems Modernization program is spending $11 billion to transition to a new EHR system, which will support more than 9.7 million beneficiaries,...The current EHR system serves patients and clinicians in 2,300 locations around the world,.." Our primary goal is to support our medical teams and administrators...with reliable tools to support patient safety, high quality care and access to care when they need it,"...

more than one-third of US adults regularly using the Internet to self-diagnose, there has been a proliferation of online symptom checkers offering streamlined medical advice....it is important for pharmacists to remind patients that online symptom checkers are by no means conclusive,...helpful to offer advice about which ones may be most useful.

1. Symcat – 71% accurate
2. Isabel – 69% accurate
3. AskMD – 68% accurate
4. DocResponse – 67% accurate
5. iTriage – 64% accurate
6. Mayo Clinic – 59% accurate
7. FamilyDoctor – 56% accurate
8. Healthline – 53% accurate
9. HMS Family Health Guide – 52% accurate
10. WebMD – 51% accurate

Your.MD aims to change the way we self-diagnosis online…By using artificial intelligence to eliminate unlikely causes of a disease, the company claims to do away with many of the flaws common to the old method of googling ones symptoms..