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EHI Live Interview: Dr Mark Davies
The executive medical director of the Health and Social Care Information Centre sat down with reporter Rebecca Todd to discuss the power of information in the new NHS landscape. Read More »
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EHRs, Clinical Decision Support Top 2017 Patient Safety Hazard List
Information management errors in electronic health records, incorrect use of clinical decision support, and poor prescribing habits are among the most dangerous health IT hazards for 2017, according to ECRI Institute’s annual patient safety list. The repeat offenders are joined by a number of workflow and process shortfalls that can leave hospitalized patients without sufficient monitoring, lead to costly and deadly hospital-acquired infections, and open up serious behavioral health risks...
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EMRs Were Designed For Billing And Not Optimized For Patient Care
EMRs were designed for billing, so let’s unleash that power, instead of trying to convert them into something they cannot be at this point in time. Read More »
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Encouraging UK Foundations To Publish What They Fund
Last week, on 20th June 2013, The Indigo Trust hosted a working lunch which brought together data experts and civil society representatives to explore the how we could encourage UK Foundations to publish their data in an open format in order to make grant giving more effective. Read More »
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Epic Challenge: What The Emergence Of An EMR Giant Means For The Future Of Healthcare Innovation
Medicine has been notoriously slow to embrace the electronic medical record (EMR), but, spurred by tax incentives and the prospect of cost and outcomes accountability, the use of electronic medical records (EMRs) is finally catching on. Read More »
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Eric Topol: Medical Technology Revolution Needs Validation To Move Forward
Thanks to advances in remote monitoring, hospital of the future will only provide intensive care, he says Read More »
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Escaping The EHR Trap — The Future Of Health IT
It is a widely accepted myth that medicine requires complex, highly specialized information-technology (IT) systems. This myth continues to justify soaring IT costs, burdensome physician workloads, and stagnation in innovation — while doctors become increasingly bound to documentation and communication products that are functionally decades behind those they use in their “civilian” life.
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Ex-Government Official: The Private Sector Is Threatening Your Privacy
Are data-mining companies and social-media platforms scarier than the government? Read More »
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Excerpts from Keynote Speaker at 2nd International Open Government Data Conference
The following are key excerpts from the keynote speaker, World Bank Managing Director Caroline Anstey, at the 2nd International Open Government Data Conference held this week in Washington, D.C. Read More »
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Executive Compensation As "Legal Corruption" - And The Continuing Example Of The Troubles Of Wake Forest Baptist
"Legal corruption" was the description of current executive compensation practices appearing, of all places, in the Wall Street Journal. The arguments [...] apply to health care, and provide a counterpoint to the usual talking points that are trotted out whenever a top health care manager, or his cronies, feels the need to justify his or her compensation. Read More »
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Fed IT Reform Bill Introduced In Senate, Spurred By HealthCare.gov
A bipartisan team of senators introduced legislation on Tuesday that would overhaul how the government buys and builds information technology systems. Read More »
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Federal CIO Outlines Second-Term IT Priorities
Amid continued cost cutting, the White House will seek to drive innovation, ROI and cybersecurity. Read More »
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Federal Health Officials Call For New Quality Measurement Framework
Federal health officials are calling for a new framework in quality measurement, as the U.S. healthcare system prepares for what is hoped to be a new era of accountability. Read More »
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Feds Probe Microsoft Whistleblower's Bribery Accusations
Did business partners of Microsoft give money to officials in three countries to make sure the company got lucrative software contracts? That's the allegation that two U.S. agencies are reportedly investigating, thanks to a Microsoft whistleblower... Read More »
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Feds Tout Blue Button, Push Patient Engagement
Pushing the Blue Button was what a parade of government and private-sector health information technology leaders did—often and with gusto—during a series of panel discussions in Washington to kick off Health IT Week. Read More »
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