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Outsourced Software Product Development: A Comprehensive Guide

Arkenea

Rather than building and maintaining a large inhouse team, businesses partner with specialized vendors to handle design, development, testing, and deployment. Quality assurance: Manual and automated testing, security audits, compliance checks. Conduct unit, integration, system, and user acceptance testing.

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A Comprehensive Guide to Meaningful Use and EHR

Arkenea

physicians has surged from 18 percent in 2001 to 92 percent in 2018. in 2018, CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) rebranded the EHR Incentive Program, which is commonly known as the Meaningful Use. Certified EHR are those that meet the standards defined by the certification and testing body.

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Personal and Professional Choices in PSA Testing: A Teaching Moment

The Healthcare Blog

In my practice as a board-certified nurse practitioner, I am frequently asked about prostate specific antigen (PSA) testing by my male patients. In this discussion of PSA testing, I want to share my decisions to order or not to order PSA testing for individuals, based on my nursing training.

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When Trials Find Implausible Results—The SCOT-HEART trial

Sensible Medicine

An imaging test. One group of patients with chest pain received standard stress testing; the other received standard stress testing plus a coronary CT scan (CCTA). The Edinburgh-based team presented their 5-year results in 2018, and their 10-year results last week. Not a drug. Not an intervention. Both were positive.

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To Preempt Government Action, Insurers Say They’re Fixing Prior Authorization

Forbes Healthcare

Representatives from several major health insurers said last week they had pledged to the Department of Health and Human Services they would improve their prior authorization protocols for diagnostic and screening tests, prescription medications and hospital or clinic procedures. In these instances, prior authorization is essential.

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Is RFK Jr to blame for the Samoa measles outbreak? An empirical analysis of published scholarly papers and news stories

Sensible Medicine

MMR vaccine rates went from 70 percent in 2017 to 30 percent in 2018. To me it doesn’t pass the sniff test. His promise to voters is that he can bring the unaccountable to heel… Read more 2 years ago · 203 likes · 215 comments · Vinay Prasad And The Free Press A Simple Litmus Test for RFK Jr.’s

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Startup That Makes Robots For Cataract Surgery Raises $125 Million In One Of Largest Fundraises For A Surgical Robotics Firm

Forbes Healthcare

ForSight has been testing its robot on pig eyes, and plans to complete its first full robotic surgery on a human patient later this year. To test out its bots, ForSight brought in top cataract surgeons to perform the procedure on pig eyes mounted on the topography of a human face. It’s targeting the U.S.

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