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Challenging HIT Vendors To Contribute Solutions
[...] Today’s environment largely consists of providers within a community that share patient information by pushing and pulling episodic data—mainly leveraging Continuity of Care Documents (CCD). Unfortunately, the first generation of exchanges are not prepared to meet healthcare’s long term needs and the time is now for HIE 2.0. Read More »
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CMS Awards Up-To-$15B Virtual Datacenter Contract
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has awarded a 10-year contract valued at up to $15 billion to eight vendors to compete to build various aspects of a virtual datacenter, which will provide the agency’s IT infrastructure and services that operate its business systems and better safeguard its healthcare information. Read More »
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CMS Inclusion of API’s for Stage 3 Meaningful Use Rule is the Right Decision
One of these rules, the decoupling of EHR certification and meaningful use brings some hope to those looking to build upon established EHRs and other health databases. Prior to this, there has been a very tightly held belief that EHR systems would contain the answers needed to fulfill all governmental regulations, something that has not been shown to be the case. EHR’s are becoming very important tools for healthcare delivery, yet their regimented, and for the most part proprietary data storage models, do not allow for easy customization to meet the needs of our patients and the various healthcare professionals dependent upon them for day-to-day management of patients.
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CMS: Databases Can Be Used For Disaster Planning To Aid Vulnerable Populations
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will allow health information from eight databases to be used to identify vulnerable people who might need help during an emergency. Read More »
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Congressional Hearing To Focus On Entrepreneurs, Mobile Medical Apps
The House Small Business Subcommittee on Health and Technology will hold a hearing on June 27 to highlight entrepreneurs creating healthcare apps, according to the subcommittee's announcement. Read More »
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Consumer Health IT Summit - Government As Catalyst
Kicking off National Health IT Week the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in conjunction with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) hosted the second Consumer Health IT Summit on Monday, September 10, 2012. Read More »
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Consumers Get Serious About Their EMRs
As patient engagement grows, a new survey indicates that a growing number of U.S. consumers (41 percent) would be willing to switch doctors to gain online access to their own electronic medical records. Doctors, though, are not as eager to make the change. Read More »
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Cool Technology Of The Week
While I was at AMIA this week, Will Ross of Redwood MedNet, introduced me to a low cost interoperability solution for small practices in rural locations. It's similar in concept to the interoperability appliances that Massachusetts has used in its HIE. Will calls his appliance the
"HIE Plug". Read More »
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Count Down To Health Datapalooza IV
The Health Data Initiative (HDI) was launched in 2010 by the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) which has now grown into the Health Data Consortium... Read More »
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Data Challenge Spotlight: The Art Of Community Wellness
“Data Challenge Spotlight” is a collaboration with the National Conference on Citizenship and GovFresh that highlights winners of the 2012 Civic Data Challenge... Read More »
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Datapalooza Spotlights Public, Private Hunger for Health Innovation
Innovators are using federal health and population data to jumpstart online and mobile applications to make information more usable and relevant to clinicians and consumers. The Health Data Initiative Forum is featuring the work of 100 companies or applications solutions culled from 245 that applied to demo at the show.
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Day 2 @ TEDMED 2013, Washington D.C. #LiveUpdate.
There is a lot of discussion about data here at TEDMED 2013, and this is no great surprise. Big data, small data, open data, crowdsourced data – this is the information backbone of science and the key to breakthroughs and innovation. Read More »
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DEA: Medical Records Sent To Pharmacies Have No Protected Privacy
In response to a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Drug Enforcement Administration argues that the "third-party doctrine" revokes privacy protections from citizens' prescription medical records. Read More »
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Dear New York Times: Next Time, Dig Deeper Into The EHR Vendor Industry
There's been quite an outpouring of sentiment about last week's New York Times article "A Digital Shift on Health Data Swells Profits in an Industry", most of it negative. Many of the 525 comments that the article received blasted electronic health record systems themselves... Read More »
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Defense and VA Eye Commercial System for Managing Medical Tests
The Defense and Veterans Affairs departments have decided to focus on commercial products for a system to track laboratory work such as blood tests within their integrated electronic health record.
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