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In an exclusive interview with Cheryl Casone on FOX Business’ ‘Markets Now’ program earlier today, Albert Santalo told a national audience that, when it comes to healthcare technology, “CareCloud is all about innovation in the cloud and bringing sanity to this business.”

The news segment was on the topic of the “e-health” industry, an area of the technology sector that FOX Business described to viewers as “growing at a very fast pace” with the support of government mandates and investors behind it.

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Twitter’s power as an information-sharing tool has made it today’s strongest measuring stick for emerging trends. If you visit the microblogging site soon, do a quick search for #FMRevolution.

The people sharing this hashtag are advocating on behalf of a burgeoning movement: The Family Medicine Revolution.

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As electronic health records grow in popularity, the microcosmic networks they form in every medical practice and hospital become increasingly membranous. Since this framework constantly evolves per the degree of user involvement, there is no rigidity to these networks’ structure, and some thinkers would argue this is both a gift and a curse.

Professor Trish Greenhalgh spearheaded a meta-narrative take on various interpretations of EHRs to make sense of conflicting research on these systems. The most compelling is perhaps the Actor-Network Theory (ANT), which we’ve profiled below.

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The Supreme Court began hearing arguments on President Obama’s beloved Affordable Care Act, one of the most politically contested cases in recent memory, this past March.

More than a month has passed, and nail clippings litter hospital, practice and insurance company floors. Professionals in the health IT field, however, may sleep comfortably, knowing their jobs won’t hang in the balance either way.

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On Thursday, April 26, eighteen CareCloud employees strapped on their running shoes and proved that “Everything Runs Faster on the Cloud!” Our staffers participated in the 27^th annual Mercedes-Benz Corporate Run in Miami’s Bayfront Park, and their involvement was a huge success.

The Mercedes-Benz Corporate Run, a 5K race, is a key fitness and community event in South Florida. Produced by TeamFootWorks, a non-profit organization committed to fitness education, the Corporate Run takes place in Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach every spring. The series of runs attracted over 25,000 participants this year.

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According to philosopher Monroe Beardsley, aesthetic soundness depends on function within a particular context. This entails a marriage of form and function that spills over into anything from interior design to documentary filmmaking.

Information technology has become a major focus of the applied aesthetics school of thought. In the video above, CareCloud’s Director of Product Development Michael Gold analyzes the conflict between user and system arising from poor EHR design.

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Congratulations are in order for Albert Santalo, CareCloud’s founder, president and CEO. On Friday afternoon, the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce honored Albert as the 2012 Technology Entrepreneur of the Year!

The honor was awarded at the Miami Chamber’s annual Technology Leaders of the Year luncheon at Jungle Island. Ten CareCloud reps attended the event, in which CareCloud was also recognized as a finalist in the “Technology Company of the Year” category.

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Some people like making strange faces in the mirror, the scent of gasoline or the sound of evaporated milk in tin cans. Our thing is health IT blogs.

Last week, we featured 5 must-follow health IT blogs, and promised you five more. Without further ado, we present some of the most awesome health IT blogs ever.

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People are searching for everything you can imagine online: restaurants that will deliver to their homes, the highest ranked family sedans, or the best golf clubs to come out this year. What’s stopping them from searching for the best pediatrician in Miami, or the best nephrologist in Nashville, or best neurologist in Wichita, or scheduling a medical appointment with a nephrologist in Nashville?

The answer to that question is that nothing is stopping them. So, if your potential patients are actively searching for you online, doesn’t it make sense to build the strongest online presence possible?

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We’ve heard it from government agencies and marketers alike – EHRs will usher in a sort of health IT utopia that will eliminate lost records, mistaken identities, extra work and inefficient billing.

The current commercial EHR landscape, however, often reflects Thomas More’s satirical utopia more so than Plato’s Republic. Many vendors push faulty products written in MUMPS, subject to technical glitches, implementation errors and often devastating system crashes.

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