Just as I clarified last week in my post about Certification, the answer to the question “do we need more or less healthcare IT regulation and legislation” is that we need the right amount of the right regulations/legislation. Sometimes when clinicians prescribe medication, although it does therapeutic good, it creates side effects which need to be addressed by changing a dose or by adding additional medications. Such is the case with HITECH. It was generally good medicine, but now that we’ve seen the side effects on workflow, clinician burden, and efficiency, there needs to be a dose adjustment...
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Data for the Public Good
Alex Howard | O'Reilly Radar | February 22, 2012
From healthcare to finance to emergency response, data holds immense potential to help citizens and government.
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Defense Department Needs to Embrace Open Source or Military Will Lose Tech Superiority
Ms. Smith | Network World | August 31, 2016
The Department of Defense needs to move past open source myths that have been debunked and jump on the open source bandwagon or the Department of Defense (DoD) and U.S. military will not be able to maintain tech superiority, warns a Center for a New American Security (CNAS) report. Open source software is used in the Pentagon, which should strongly suggest that open source is not an unsecure and vulnerable hot mess. Yet the DoD overall is stuck in the past, clinging to “erroneous and unfounded misunderstandings about open source software.” Those misconceptions often mean open source is not even considered as a viable option for DoD software projects...
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Defense-VA Electronic Health Record Stumbles At Chicago Hospital
Bob Brewin | Nextgov | October 16, 2012
Despite an investment of $100 million since 2009, the Chicago hospital managed jointly by the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments has not fully developed a joint electronic health record because officials haven’t been able to create a numbering system for prescriptions, the Institute of Medicine said in a report released today. Read More »
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Details On VA's Mobile Device Mgt. Plan
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee | GovInfoSecurity.com | October 5, 2012
The Department of Veterans Affairs is revealing more details about the cloud-based mobile device management system it soon will implement. Read More »
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DHS Announces $1.3 Billion in Preparedness Grants
David Stegon | FedScoop | July 2, 2012
The Department of Homeland Security announced more than $1.3 billion in allocations for seven preparedness grant programs to assist states, urban areas, tribal and territorial governments, non-profit agencies, and the private sector in strengthening the nation’s ability to prevent, protect, respond to and recover from terrorist attacks, major disasters and other emergencies. Read More »
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Digital Government: The Transformative Power Of Visual Communications And Little Bets
Brand Niemann | AOL Government | October 25, 2012
Jonny Goldstein, a veteran media producer, artist, trainer, and speaker, created the above visual notes for the recent Digital Government: The Transformative Power of Communications, captured and disseminated fittingly via Instagram. Read More »
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Digital Revolution: Bringing The NHS Into The 21st Century
Adam Roberts | Nuffield Trust | March 24, 2011
Why is health care so far behind the times? This was the topic we recently explored at a breakfast session at the Nuffield Trust’s 2011 Health Strategy Summit. [...] In a time of financial pressure and need for efficiency savings, why are the vast majority of [...] appointments still carried out in person? Read More »
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Distributed Ledgers, the Next Step in Patient Generated Health Data (PGHD) - Part 2
Jeff Brandt | LinkedIn Pulse | December 27, 2016
An associate of mine provided good feedback on my previous post on Pulse, he disagreed with me in earnest and stated that Blockchain/ Distributed Ledger (DL) wasn't a good platform for storing PGHD (Patient Generated Health Data). I appreciated his comments, I decided to provide a bit more context and information. For those of you that are not familiar with Distributive Ledgers, they are the technology that support Blockchain, which is the foundation of Bitcoin. Basically, Distributive ledgers are an add-hoc standard database with security, transparency and access control more or less built in...
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Do Gaps in Health IT Security Laws Stunt Technology Innovation?
Sara Heath | EHR Intelligence | August 10, 2016
A new ONC report details the implications of health IT security laws on health IT innovation and development. Gaps in privacy and security law may be hindering the development and expansion of health IT and EHR use across the industry, a recent report from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology suggests...
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Do We Need More or Less Healthcare IT Regulation and Legislation?
By John D. Halamka, MD | July 13, 2016
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Do You Want The Government Buying Your Data From Corporations?
Bruce Schneier | The Atlantic | April 30, 2013
A new bill moving through Congress would give the authorities unprecedented access to citizens' information. Read More »
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Doctors And Nurses Complicit In CIA Torture, Alleges Report By Institute Of Medicine And Open Society Foundations
Staff Writer | The Telegraph | November 4, 2013
DOCTOR and nurses tasked with monitoring the health of terror suspects were complicit in abuses committed at prisons run by the Pentagon and the CIA, an independent report has alleged. Read More »
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DoD Sources iEHR Information from the Broader Health IT Market
Molly Bernhart Walker | FierceGovernmentIT | August 1, 2012
The Defense and Veterans Affairs departments are investigating what capabilities should be included in the forthcoming integrated electronic health record, or iEHR, by asking about the qualifications of EHRs currently on the market. The iEHR Joint Program Office posted July 18 a request for information on FedBizOpps. Read More »
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DOD, VA Ask Vendors to Describe Existing Apps for iEHR
Mary Mosquera | Government Health IT | July 27, 2012
The Defense and Veterans Affairs departments want vendors to tell them about services and products they can offer to meet the current and future technical needs for the integrated electronic health record (iEHR) as it prepares to roll out its initial version. Read More »
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DoD, VA, and Federal Healthcare Leaders to Discuss iEHR Progression and Important Strategies for Successful Data Sharing and Interoperability
Press Release |
Defense Strategies Institute |
March 22, 2012
Defense Strategies Institute (DSI) brought together senior leadership in October 2011 to look at the iEHR architectural roadmap that was released last spring, and now they are answering the call of “How to achieve success across domain data sharing and the iEHR while working towards clinically relevant, technically feasible, and financially viable innovations.” Read More »
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