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• June 24, 2016 24 Jun'16

  Security and value-based care hot topics at HIT Summit

  The first day of the two-day Health IT Summit in Boston was filled with speakers and panels addressing value-based care and cybersecurity. Most of the audience at the summit, about half, were ...

• June 23, 2016 23 Jun'16

  Certified health IT disclosure rules to be enforced, ONC official says

  ONC senior policy adviser explains in this HIT Squad podcast the rationale for and benefits of new certified EHR transparency requirements and how they will be enforced.

• June 15, 2016 15 Jun'16

  ONC moves on health IT safety

  Health IT is so often seen as central to creating efficiencies, maximizing reimbursement and helping spur advances in medical care, that its effect on patient safety is sometimes overlooked. But ...

• June 08, 2016 08 Jun'16

  Medical Informatics group chief pleads for more EHR interoperability

  Doug Fridsma, M.D., is a passionate guy. A former chief science officer for ONC, Frisdma joined the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) in 2014 as president and CEO, telling ...

• June 08, 2016 08 Jun'16

  Five new telemedicine devices and systems shown at ATA 2016

  At ATA 2016, vendors showed five new telemedicine devices and systems ranging from non-contact connected thermometers to real-time video conferencing for virtual doctor's visits.

• June 02, 2016 02 Jun'16

  At health IT conferences, information blocking, telemedicine star

  Information blocking and new telemedicine systems are hot health IT conference topics, with government officials pushing interoperability and telehealth finding more adoption.

• June 01, 2016 01 Jun'16

  ONC pushes vendors to disclose information

  Moves by federal health regulators to pressure EHR vendors to reveal more information about pricing and functionality of their software are meeting a mixed response. ONC, at its annual meeting this ...

• June 01, 2016 01 Jun'16

  Mayo Clinic to get funding for work with precision medicine group

  Add the Mayo Clinic to the list of organizations that will have a major role in the Precision Medicine Initiative. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is slated to receive $130 million in 2016 ...

• May 31, 2016 31 May'16

  Healthcare CIO Harun Rashid's career journey

  CIO Harun Rashid always knew he wanted a career in technology. But a career in healthcare IT came as a rewarding surprise. Now he's working to provide quality care around the world.

• May 31, 2016 31 May'16

  Healthcare IoT applications expand patient care possibilities

  In this issue of Pulse, SearchHealthIT writers examine healthcare IoT applications and share how IoT technology influences patient care, from perspectives of patients and providers.

  First, Scott Wallask draws the line between healthcare ...

• May 24, 2016 24 May'16

  At ATA 2016, American Well telemedicine draws attention

  American Well is getting attention for its new telemedicine exchange while The New York Times also picked up on the development as the telehealth industry poises for growth.

• May 18, 2016 18 May'16

  Telemedicine lawyer at ATA 2016 says acceptance growing

  Telemedicine has come a long way in terms of acceptance, but reimbursement and cross-state licensing issues are still impeding growth, a legal expert says at ATA 2016.

• May 13, 2016 13 May'16

  Healthcare data breaches widespread, Ponemon survey shows

  As ransomware and other cyberattacks mount, 89% of healthcare organizations and their business associates have been hit by data breaches, and 50% of them were by cybercriminals.

• May 12, 2016 12 May'16

  ONC healthcare contest to give patients more say over data movement

  Most people can be reached instantly by others through mobile technology. A new healthcare contest devised by ONC may make it so that patients are able to approve the electronic transmission of ...

• May 09, 2016 09 May'16

  US Vice President Joe Biden shares his information blocking experience at Health Datapalooza

  Even the vice president of the United States isn't exempt from experiencing information blocking. At the Health Datapalooza conference in Washington, D.C., Vice President Joe Biden told the crowd ...