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Health IT Now recommends HHS, Congress take steps against non-interoperable systems
Health IT Now, buoyed by RAND's recent report on electronic health records, has called on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Congress to "decertify systems that require additional modules, expenses, and customization to share data," and to investigate business practices that prohibit or restrict data sharing in federal incentive programs.
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Health IT Security, FHIR Focus of ONC Secure API Server Challenge
ONC is challenging healthcare stakeholders to build secure Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) servers to improve health IT security and ensure that secure FHIR options are available in the future. The Secure API Server Showdown Challenge will ideally “identify unknown security vulnerabilities in the way open source FHIR servers are implemented,” ONC Office of Standards and Technology Director Steven Posnack, MS, MHS, wrote in a blog post...
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Health IT: Charting the Course For 2013 To Harness Health IT To Bring Down Costs And Improve Quality In Health Care
Today HHS is announcing critical progress toward building the infrastructure needed for Health Information Technology (IT) systems to communicate seamlessly and securely. This is crucial to our efforts to modernize our health care delivery system and will facilitate our efforts to bring down costs and improve care for patients. Read More »
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Health Organizations Implore Congress to Fund Public Health Surveillance Systems
HLN Consulting joined more than eighty organizations, institutions, and companies in imploring Congress to fund public health surveillance systems. The appropriations request letters – one to the House and one to the Senate – seek one billion in funding over ten years (and $100 million in FY 2020) for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This funding would allow CDC, state, local, tribal, and territorial health departments to move from sluggish, manual, paper-based data collection to seamless, automated, interoperable IT systems and to recruit and retain skilled data scientists to use them.
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Health Orgs Dooming Their "Innovation" To Failure
Healthcare organizations are rapidly trying to reinvent themselves in light of the new rules of the game. One could argue it officially started October 1, 2012 with Medicare’s readmission penalties. People are calling this the “no outcome, no income” era. [...] Read More »
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Health Technology’s ‘Essential Critic’ Warns Of Medical Mistakes
Computer mistakes like the one that produced incorrect prescriptions for thousands of Rhode Island patients are probably far more common and dangerous than the Obama administration wants you to believe, says Drexel University’s Dr. Scot Silverstein. Read More »
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Health-Care Reform Creates Boon For Tech Startups
In spring 2009, tech entrepreneur Neil Smiley founded Loopback Analytics, a Dallas company that markets software to help hospitals reduce the probability that patients will suffer complications and have to be readmitted. Read More »
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Health-Tech Incubators See Influx Of Startups
When Seth Freedman co-founded IntelligentM in December 2011, he was confident of the appeal of his company's product -- an electronic bracelet that keeps track of hand washing among health workers so hospitals can improve hygiene and better control the spread of infections. But [Freedman] lacked the connections to break into the competitive hospital market. Read More »
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Healthcare Interoperability Research Propositions of the ONC Blockchain Challenge
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in partnership with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), recently launched an initiative called the ONC Blockchain Challenge and invited healthcare and technology leaders to submit research papers to explore the "use of blockchain in Health IT and Health-released Research"...
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Healthcare IT VC Funding Doubles To $2.2 Billion
Last year was another banner year for venture capital funding for healthcare IT--it doubled from $1.2 billion to $2.2 billion, according to a new report from Mercom Capital Group. Read More »
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Healthcare IT VC Funding Is On Pace To Exceed $2 Billion In 2013
Healthcare IT VC funding is on pace to exceed $2B in 2013 according to report on funding and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity in the Healthcare IT sector for the second quarter of 2013 by Mercom Capital Group, LLC. Read More »
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Healthcare Must Open Its Eyes To Open Source
Recently I attended a product demonstration at my local Apple store where we were presented with an iPad-based EHR solution. There were lots of oohs and aahs as the demonstrator did a fictional patient visit, recorded the symptoms and automatically generated a bill [...]. Read More »
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Healthcare Technology Costs Top $32,500 per Physician
As they move to digitize their practices and patient medical records, healthcare organizations across the country continue to grapple with significant increases in information technology costs. According to new data from Medical Group Management Association, physician-owned multispecialty practices spent more than $32,500 per full-time physician on information technology equipment, staff, maintenance, and other related expenses in 2015...
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Healthcare Uncertainty Reigns Supreme
I usually don’t reference studies conducted exclusively by health IT vendors in my columns. [...] However, I’m breaking this self-imposed rule this week by highlighting data from a recent study conducted by Greenway Medical Technologies titled Healthcare Information Technology: Trends And Transformations. Read More »
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HealtheConnections RHIO Migrates eHealth Technologies' Image Exchange On Its Mirth HIE Platform
eHealth Technologies, a leader in streamlining transitions of care including, securely delivering electronic diagnostic images to the users of health information exchange (HIE), and HealtheConnections, the Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO) of Central New York, have gone live with eHealth Connect(R) Image Exchange integrated with their new, Mirth HIE platform. Read More »
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