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Hospital IT systems and applications

• Radiology one specialty included in federal health IT programs

  The meaningful use program wasn't designed with medical specialties in mind, which has caused some radiologists to struggle to satisfy its criteria.  Continue Reading

• Radiologists have and will face meaningful use audits

  CMS has audited healthcare systems and doctors for meaningful use, and radiologists should prepare for the same.  Continue Reading

• Home health monitoring could be part of your cable bill

  AT&T is venturing into remote patient monitoring using its existing home security system technology.  Continue Reading

• Clinical decision support system tracks quality care measures

  Providers that don't schedule checkups frequently enough can be reminded by providers that deploy a clinical decision support system.  Continue Reading

• Single health IT standard not feasible, says Doug Fridsma

  Doug Fridsma discusses the difficulties of uniting all providers under one health IT standard and talks about his move from ONC to AMIA.  Continue Reading

• Despite bad rap, HIPAA omnibus rule helps sustain health IT

  Shared accountability among vendors for data breaches is one reason the HIPAA omnibus rule is helping expand cloud usage in the health IT realm.  Continue Reading

• Imprivata user locks down terminals as virtualization grows

  A healthcare system in Michigan reports that it saves countless hours of clinicians' time by using a single sign-on system from Imprivata.  Continue Reading

• Supercharge patient privacy for HIPAA omnibus era

  From collection to transfer and analytics, patient privacy and data security must be maintained for the digital era of HIPAA compliance, just like it was in the dead-tree era of paper records.  Continue Reading

• Securing protected health information starts with HIPAA

  The term 'HIPAA' is discussed so often that it can be easy to lose track of what it was created to do. Learn exactly what HIPAA is and how to stay on the right side of it.  Continue Reading

• Nuance moves into medical image sharing

  Nuance Inc., after acquiring medical image sharing cloud Accelarad, is trying to marry the substantial customer bases of both companies.  Continue Reading

• Patient portals create interoperability puzzles

  How mobile operating systems, EHR vendor interaction and health system implementations complicate patient portal interoperability.  Continue Reading

• Mobile health devices may reduce lengths of ER visits

  Learn how by securely receiving patient information on their mobile devices, emergency physicians could speed up treatment and diagnosis.  Continue Reading

• Physical therapy mHealth app logs compliance

  A smartphone mHealth app drives patient engagement at home for physical therapy rehab patients, teaches exercises and logs compliance between visits.  Continue Reading

• Social data a new source for disease surveillance

  Healthcare researchers mine unstructured data from nontraditional sources such as social media to detect disease outbreaks and predict pandemics.  Continue Reading

• Next for Direct: Apps to enable health data exchange

  Getting patients involved in Direct(ing) exchange of health data is coming in 2015, when developers finish their applications.  Continue Reading