Kaiser Permanente (KP)
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Computer Virus At Heart Of Kaiser Data Breach
Some 5,100 patients treated at Kaiser Permanente were sent HIPAA breach notification letters Friday after a KP research computer was found to have been infected with malicious software. Officials say the computer was infected with the malware for more than two and a half years before being discovered Feb. 12.
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Contest Produces Consumer Friendly Health Records
Competition focused on improving look of downloaded health records, and Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT hopes EHR vendors will participate in followup project. Read More »
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Do The CDC’s Ebola Precautions For U.S. Hospitals Go Far Enough?
U.S. hospitals have gone on alert since two American healthcare workers were brought to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta this month after being infected with the Ebola virus while treating Ebola patients in West Africa...
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Doctors Tell All—And It’s Bad
A crop of books by disillusioned physicians reveals a corrosive doctor-patient relationship at the heart of our health-care crisis...
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Early adopters of EHR systems starting to reap major benefits
Electronic health record (EHR) adoption has been fastest at larger, more technology-savvy medical organizations, while smaller practitioners -- which make up the bulk of U.S. clinicians -- have been slow on the health-IT uptake for a variety of reasons, chief among them the cost, but also the training time and effort needed to make the move from paper. Read More »
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Epic Systems, Leading Defense EHR Bidder, Slammed For Lack Of Interoperability
Epic Systems, considered the front-runner for the Defense Department’s $11 billion electronic health record contract, has come under sustained criticism for lack of interoperability with other EHRs, including most recently a front-page story in The New York Times last Sunday...
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Hackers Exploit Heartbleed To Swipe Data Of 4.5 Million
In the second biggest HIPAA breach ever reported, one of the nation's largest healthcare systems has notified some 4.5 million of its patients that their personal information has been snatched by cybercriminals...
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Health Care Modernization On Track, Acquisition Chief Says
A multi-billion dollar acquisition to modernize DoD’s Electronic Health Record (EHR) and improve interoperability of healthcare information between the Defense Department and the Department of Veterans Affairs is on track, the Program Executive Officer for the Defense Healthcare Management Systems Modernization and Integrated Electronic Health Records program said today...
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IBM Partners With Epic In Battle For Pentagon's Multibillion-Dollar EHR Deal
IBM has teamed with electronic health records provider Epic to compete for the Defense Department’s Healthcare Management Systems Modernization contract expected to be bid out this summer, with an expected value of approximately $11 billion...
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It’s The System, Stupid: Reversing The Law Of Unintended Consequences
We should have seen it coming, really. It was entirely predictable, and the most recent RAND report proves it. We incentivized comprehensive IT adoption, making it easier to bill for every procedure, examination, aspirin, tongue depressor, kind word and gentle (or not) touch without first flipping the American healthcare paradigm on its head... Read More »
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Kaiser Permanente Invites Software Developers To Build Apps
Health care giant Kaiser Permanente took small steps today allowing developers to access code to public information residing on its website, through an application programming interface (API). Read More »
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MIT Builds An Open-Source Platform For Your Body
MIT Media Lab's 11-day health care hackathon pulled students and big companies together with a common goal: Healing a broken industry. [...] The goal is to jump-start an open source platform where apps that track all different aspects of your bodily health can exchange information. Read More »
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Nurses Launch New Campaign To Alert Public To Dangers Of Medical Technology And More
Nurses Launch New Campaign to Alert Public to Dangers of Medical Technology and Erosion of Care Standards
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Pharmaceutical And IT Communities Collaborate On OASIS Clinical Trial Data Standard For Content Management Systems
The pharmaceutical community, health care organizations, and software providers are coming together at the OASIS open standards consortium to define a machine-readable content classification standard for the interoperable exchange of clinical trial data via content management systems. The work of the new OASIS Electronic Trial Master File (eTMF) Standard Technical Committee will promote interoperability across diverse computing platforms and cloud networks within the clinical trials community.
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Race Is On For Defense Health Record
Four commercial vendors will submit proposals Friday for the Defense Department’s $11 billion electronic health record system contract...Teams bidding on the Pentagon’s EHR system – formally known as the Defense Healthcare Management System Modernization – are...
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