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Stocks end higher for second week

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Stocks ended a choppy session higher Friday, with the market managing to carve out a second consecutive week of gains as buyers dipped back in after the May sell-off.

The Dow Jones industrial average (INDU),S&P 500 index (SPX) and the Nasdaq composite (COMP) all added a few points. The Dow and S& gained over 2% and the Nasdaq gained over 3%. Stocks rallied last week as well.

Investors were contending Friday with the quadruple options expiration, a quarterly event in which stock index future and options and individual stock futures and options are all expiring simultaneously. The process can create increased volatility in the underlying issues, particularly in the last hour of trade.

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Gold surges to all-time high

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — The price of gold surged to an all-time high for the second straight day Friday as economic anxiety continued to fuel a rally for the precious metal.

Gold for August delivery climbed $9.60, or 0.8%, to settle at a record $1,258.30 an ounce, beating the record closing high of $1,248.20 set the previous day. The contract also set a record for intraday prices, at $1,263.70. The previous mark was $1,254.50, set June 8.

“I would attribute this latest surge in the price of gold to expectations of political calamity that could lead to considerable economic distress,” said John Lonski, chief economist for Moody’s. “The jump in the price of gold betrays a lack of confidence in global political and economic leadership. It may not be well-founded, but that’s what it’s telling me.”

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VA, DOD to raise the bar on data exchange

WASHINGTON – The Veterans Affairs and Defense departments intend to test more complex health data sets and include more participants in its second “VLER Community” project, the latest in a planned series of live tests of a Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record for military community members and their families.

The first VLER Community test is currently under way in the San Diego, Calif., region and focuses on data-sharing between VA and Kaiser Permanente medical centers.

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Allscripts announces 3rd quarter boost in profits, 2 new contracts

CHICAGO – Healthcare providers looking to marry clinical and revenue cycle management operations are finding a willing suitor in Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions.

The Chicago-based healthcare IT giant announced two new clients this week, connecting healthcare providers in dozens of locations in Indiana and Florida with revenue cycle management tools and other solutions designed to improve the quality of care and patient communications and better manage the cost of care delivery.

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HP’s iPad competitor will have two video cameras

In an apparent attempt to steal some buzz from Apple’s brand-new iPad, Hewlett-Packard on Monday released some details about its “slate” computer, which will go on sale later this year.

A new blog post and video highlight some apparent differences between the two gadgets: The HP device has two video cameras, a USB connection and also support for Flash animations.

The lack of those features has been a consistent gripe among iPad reviewers.

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Young job-seekers hiding their Facebook pages

(CNN) — Justin Gawel says there’s nothing too incriminating on his Facebook page.

“There are a lot of pictures of drinking [but] nothing naked or anything — at least I don’t think so,” he said jokingly.

Even so, the Michigan State University junior recently changed his Facebook display name to “Dustin Jawel” to keep his personal life from potential employers while applying for summer internships.

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Which e-readers will the iPad crush?

Now that the iPad is upon us and the reviews have started coming in, it’s becoming clear that the iPad is an excellent e-reader, perhaps the best one out there. This isn’t exactly a great surprise. The fact is ever since we had an inkling that Apple would come out with a slate-style device that resembled a giant iPod Touch, we knew that it would have a profound impact on the e-book reader world. We always figured there would be a before and after shot of the market–and it wouldn’t be pretty for certain companies that had been working long and hard to deliver what they hoped would be innovative and appealing devices.

Of course, some of those devices will remain innovative and appealing, but when you’re going up against a slick device like the iPad that has Apple’s tremendous marketing muscle behind it, you’re probably in for a rough ride if your product doesn’t have a true competitive advantage and isn’t priced properly.

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Netflix has quick fix for possible mail troubles

The postman, an often overlooked low-tech part of Netflix’s Web movie-rental business, may walk off the job–at least on Saturdays.

The U.S. Postal Service, founded in 1775, wants to drop Saturday mail delivery as part of a plan to cut costs, according to reports in The Washington Post and elsewhere. Some observers fear that Netflix customers could revolt if the weekend becomes a dead zone for disc delivery.

The proposal is a long way from being a sure thing. Several lawmakers and the union representing mail carriers have said they opposed a Saturday shutdown. And the people wringing their hands perhaps have forgotten about Netflix’s still blossoming streaming service. A Netflix spokesman declined to comment.

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Geek Out!: New Nintendo handheld goes for bigger, better

Is bigger better? Or is it just bigger? Nintendo is banking that their latest handheld console – the DSi XL – will be both.

The Nintendo DSi XL is similar in many ways to its little brother, the DSi. The configuration of the buttons and screens are the same as are the camera tools, Internet connections and available software.

What sets the two apart is the size. The XL version is 93 percent larger than the regular handhelds. The new screens measure 4.2 inches diagonally and the closed unit grew to 6.3 inches wide by 3.6 inches tall.

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Polaroid instant film is back … sort of

Fans of tech nostalgia, it’s time to rejoice.

Film for Polaroid’s old-school instant cameras went out of production in 2008, but a European company has started reproducing certain types of the film again.

A company called “the IMPOSSIBLE project” started selling the instant film on its Web site today. The price is steep, though: $21 for a 8-photo pack that develops in black-and-white.

The black-and-white film works with SX 70 Polaroid cameras from the 1970s.

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New York hospitals land $22M in quality incentives

ROCHESTER, NY – Forty-eight upstate New York hospitals earned more than $22 million in quality improvement incentive payments from Excellus BlueCross BlueShield as part of the health insurer’s Hospital Performance Incentive Program.

Launched in 2004, the program uses nationally recognized standards and guidelines to address specific areas for improvement, including clinical outcomes, patient safety, patient satisfaction and efficiency.

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Alaska center to go high-tech and personal

ANCHORAGE, AK – The Alaska Native Medical Center (ANMC) is going digital across its campus in order to automate paper processes in nearly every area of the medical center.

The goal, said Dan Neumeister, ANMC administrator, is to personalize patient care and also to become a leaner, more efficient organization.

“We chose Cerner because they understand that the real beneficiary of this technology is the person who will be receiving personalized care,” said Neumeister. “For more than 30 years, Cerner has shared our vision for better population health through wellness and prevention, which we view as a critical focal point for a healthy tribal community for generations to come.”

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Twitter becoming essential tool for docs

CLEVELAND – Twitter will soon be an essential tool for medical practices according to a poll conducted by Case Western University, an independent research university in Cleveland.

Fifty-nine percent of those who participated in the poll voted “yes” that Twitter would become an integral part of the way doctors communicate with patients and other medical professionals.

Although more doctors may be using the service, they are not necessarily using it to give patients advice.

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NHIN Direct may “throw wrench” into states’ HIE plans

WASHINGTON – In launching NHIN Direct, a set of tools designed to make it easier for small providers to share electronic health information securely, health IT policymakers are forcing states to rethink their plans for rolling out health information services in their communities.

NHIN Direct, the brainchild of the Health IT Policy Committee’s NHIN workgroup, would enable small healthcare organizations to ramp up health information exchange quickly by offering them basic network transport services for sharing records securely over the Internet.

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Genome find pushes personalized medicine ahead

CARLSBAD, CA – In a scientific coup that could mean leaps for personalized medicine, two Baylor College of Medicine scientists have sequenced an individual’s genome and identified the specific causative mutation associated with Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease (CMT).

The disease is one of the most common inherited neurological disorders currently affecting 1 in 2,500 individuals in the United States. The scientists used genomic analysis technologies from Life Technologies Corp.

In a paper published today by The New England Journal of Medicine, geneticists Richard Gibbs and James R. Lupski, MD, asserted they used whole genome sequencing for the first time to identify the cause of an inherited disease.

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Five features missing from most EHRs

AUSTIN, TX – Officials at Drummond Group, Inc., announced on the company’s blog that after a “thorough review” of the recent notice of proposed rule making, it will apply this year to become an Office of the National Coordinator-Authorized Testing and Certification Body (ONC-ATCB).

In Nov. the Austin, Texas-based interoperability test lab said that it hoped to extend its testing program to electronic health records and planned to apply once the ONC released its requirements for certifying bodies for EHRs.

On the DGI blog company officials said, “Receiving the HHS requirements to become an authorized EHR testing and certification body was the missing piece in our decision to move forward. Now that we have that piece, we feel confident in announcing our intention to formally apply.”

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Time for Apple to get serious about video

(CNET) — Netflix is cruising. The cable guys are catching on. Wal-Mart just rumbled in.

The Web’s video-on-demand sector is filling up fast with some serious heavyweights. If Apple wants to make a mark in digital video that even vaguely resembles the one it made in music, perhaps the company should start treating Apple TV as more than just a “hobby.” That’s Apple’s attitude toward the streaming-media device, said Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook, who spoke at a conference in San Francisco on Tuesday.

This doesn’t seem to be a good time to toy with online video. Competition is turning white hot. On Monday, the nation’s retailing juggernaut, Wal-Mart Stores, announced its intention to distribute films and movies over the Internet. The company also said it had acquired Vudu, the former set-top box maker that now sells media-distribution software.

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Dell’s tablet gunning for Apple’s iPad

Say the words “tablet computer” and ten bucks says it’s Apple’s iPad that springs to mind. But that doesn’t mean other companies aren’t busy building their own version of a touch-enabled, multimedia-sporting, slab of portable computing goodness.

Dell’s first effort at a tablet will be the Mini 5 (a name that is still in beta) — a slice of plastic and glass with a 5-inch capacitive touchscreen that according to Michael Dell will debut “in a couple of months.”

The Mini 5 will sport a 5-megapixel camera on the back, a separate front-facing camera that can be used for video conferencing, a standard 3.5-mm headphone jack, Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity and a Qualcomm Snapdragon 1-GHz processor.

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Docs using mobile apps at the point of care

The introduction of a medical check list for the iPhone could be a benefit to providers as mobile technology is quickly being integrated into the care process.

Peter Waegemann, vice president of development for the mHealth Initiative, Inc. says so many health professionals have started using smartphones to help administer better care that some say they “don’t know how colleagues manage without them.”

Official statistics aren’t published, “but anecdotal reports confirm that many doctors are using the iPhone at the point of care,” says Waegemann. “There are several hospitals where all doctors are using the iPhone.”

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Surescripts lowers e-prescribing costs

ALEXANDRIA, VA – Officials at Alexandria, Va.-based Surescripts say it is reducing what pharmacies, pharmacy vendors and pharmacy benefit managers pay for e-prescribing.

According to company officials, it has been six years since Surescripts, which operates the nation’s largest e-prescription network, has had a price increase.

“Our decision to lower prices fulfills a public promise made when legacy SureScripts and RxHub were founded,” said Harry Totonis, president and CEO of Surescripts.

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