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CHIME Asks ONC to Rethink NwHIN
CHIME submitted comments this week to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, responding to the agency’s vision for nationwide health information exchange. ONC officials in May released a Request for Information (RFI) that sought feedback on how to establish a governance mechanism for the nationwide health information network (NwHIN). Read More »
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Chip Away At The Stone: REMOTE, Transparency Life Sciences
(This blog is part 2 of my interview with Tomasz Sablinski, MD, PhD, Founder and CEO of Transparency Life Sciences. As noted in my first blog, Sablinski’s company announced it was the first company to have an IND cleared using a crowdsourced protocol. [...] Read More »
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Choosing An Open-Source CMS, Part 2: Why We Use Joomla
In this, the second installment of our three-part series on finding the best open-source content management system (CMS) for your needs, we asked two organizations that use Joomla to explain why they felt that Joomla was the best choice for them, how the transition went, and whether they're happy with the results.
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CIOs Get More Options as Cloud Computing Goes Open Source
CIOs, CEOs and other executives must have a lot of questions about cloud computing, and I’m not sure there are actually good answers right now when it comes to portability and integration. Read More »
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CISPA Is Dead. Now Let’s Do A Cybersecurity Bill Right
The controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) now appears to be dead in the Senate, despite having passed the House by a wide margin earlier this month. Though tech, finance, and telecom firms with a combined $605 million in lobbying muscle [updated*] supported the bill, opposition from privacy groups, internet activists, and ultimately the White House [...] seem to have proven fatal for now. Read More »
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CMS Makes Medicare, Medicaid Data Easier For Researchers To Access
Researchers who want to study population health using the vast stores of Medicare and Medicaid data will no longer have to order it and wait for the federal government to ship them encrypted data files. Rather, they can now access the information virtually [...]. Read More »
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CMS Officials Warned Of Security Risks Just Before Healthcare.gov Went Live
Less than four days before Healthcare.gov went live, two senior officials at the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) expressed reservations about the security preparedness of the site. Read More »
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Commentary: The Unspoken ICD-10 Risk of Medical Fraud
One of the issues that doesn't come up very often when discussing ICD-10 implementation is fraud.
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Computer Viruses Are "Rampant" On Medical Devices In Hospitals
A meeting of government officials reveals that medical equipment is becoming riddled with malware. Read More »
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Congress' Plan To Stop Exporting Technology To Repressive Regimes
When a U.S. company wants to export military technology, it has to go through a rigorous approval process in Washington. That’s because, of course, if it ends up in the wrong hands, the technology could interfere with U.S. foreign policy, destabilize conflict-prone regions, or worse... Read More »
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Continuity Of Care: 4 Benefits Of The DoD And VA's Integrated EHR
Caring for the nation's service members has never been easy. Providing world-class medical attention for the men and women of the Armed Forces from the front lines to the hospitals and clinics of the Veterans Administration (VA) is a daunting task that entails massive logistical and data hurdles. Read More »
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Contract Management For The Healthcare Industry
Healthcare providers face a growing list of complex contracting challenges. These challenges create the potential for substantial revenue leaks, and the key to plugging most of those is improving contract management efficiency. Improvements can always be made at every level of the contract management life-cycle, its finding the problems that pose the real challenge. Read More »
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Cory Doctorow And EFF Aim To “Eradicate DRM In Our lifetime”
...The Electronic Frontier Foundation announced Tuesday that Boing Boing's Cory Doctorow has been commissioned to tackle digital rights management technologies (DRM) that the rights group says threatens security, privacy, and undermines public rights and innovation...
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Cost Savings Draw Governments Worldwide to the Cloud
Cost savings are the biggest driver to cloud computing for national, state and local governments and security concerns are the greatest barrier, a survey released Tuesday found. Read More »
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Data Attacks On Healthcare Flying High
In the realm of privacy and security, heeding snooping employees and encrypting portable devices isn't enough in healthcare these days. Criminal attacks on hospitals are on a huge upward trend, with a whopping 100 percent reported increase just from four years ago.
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