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Mayo Clinic Launches Pregnancy App

The Mayo Clinic has launched a new mobile app. So reports Healthcare IT News.

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24 Percent of Docs Use Mobile Apps

A new survey by Wolters Kluwer Health shows that 24 percent of the doctors surveyed use mobile apps. So reports Fierce Mobile Healthcare.

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Milwaukee Clinic Loses Access to Patient Records

Physicians at Milwaukee Health Services have lost access the medical records of 40,000 patients. So reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

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EHR Incentive Payments Reach $9.3B

The latest statistics released for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services show that $9.3 billion dollars of incentives have been paid out since the program began. So reports Government Health IT.

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Spine Clinic Employee Steals 532 Patient’s Info

An employee of the Rocky Mountain Spine Clinic stole patient health information. So reports the Denver Post.

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Patients Want Apps More Than Prescriptions: Study

A new survey by Digitas Health, a healthcare marketing and advertising agency, found that 90% of patients would accept the offer of a mobile app, reports Fierce Mobile.

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Big Drop in Meaningful Use Attestation

A new report published by the CMS shows that of the 11,578 family physicians who attested to meaningful use in 2011, only 9,188 did so in 2012. That amounts to a 21% drop in participation, reports the AAFP.

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Twitter Helps Track Food Related Behavior

An article published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research suggests that subjects using Twitter on their mobile devices are better able to capture their real-time food consumption and diet related behavior, reports Fierce Mobile Healthcare.

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