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- October 24, 2016
24 Oct'16
CRM goliath Salesforce aims at dominating CRM for healthcare market
A CRM system for healthcare as explained at Dreamforce by Josh Newman, M.D., Salesforce chief medical officer; and a visit to West Coast ambulatory EHR vendor Practice Fusion.
- October 21, 2016
21 Oct'16
Digital health technology poised to help an aging population
Startups and established mHealth and health IT vendors showcase care coordination and telehealth apps, while speakers talk about tech tools for the elderly and mentally ill.
- October 18, 2016
18 Oct'16
MACRA final rule met with guarded, but mostly positive reaction
The MACRA final rule eases ways for doctors to measure patient care data for Medicare reimbursement; meanwhile, ONC focused its authority on patient safety in health IT systems.
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- October 12, 2016
12 Oct'16
OCR HIPAA guidance
As Boston lawyer and HIPAA healthcare expert David Harlow points out in his eminently useful blog post on the Office for Civil Rights' recent guidance on cloud computing, there's really not that ...
- October 06, 2016
06 Oct'16
HHS awards funding for cybersecurity threat information sharing
The Department of Health and Human Services awarded funding to a Florida-based healthcare data sharing center to build a more effective system of information sharing about cyberthreats. The Office ...
- October 04, 2016
04 Oct'16
Ambulatory EHR vendors having success on East and West Coasts
As big EHR vendors battle for large healthcare system market shares, purveyors of EHRs for small physician practices are still finding success with moderately priced systems.
- September 30, 2016
30 Sep'16
Cancer research panel calls for National Cancer Data Ecosystem
The Cancer Moonshot's Blue Ribbon Panel has called for a national infrastructure that will allow researchers, clinicians and patients to collaborate in sharing their data and knowledge about ...
- September 28, 2016
28 Sep'16
Like it or not, blockchain is coming to health IT
Get used to it. Blockchain is invading health IT. And it's moving fast. Sure, while blockchain's encrypted distributed ledger technology has already made big inroads in the finance sector, in ...
- September 28, 2016
28 Sep'16
Healthcare blockchain ideas swirl at government conference
Proponents and skeptics of blockchain for healthcare came together at a workshop hosted by NIST and ONC to work out proposals and problems with this new technology.
- September 26, 2016
26 Sep'16
The CIO of MGH discusses health information exchange challenges
It is well known in the health IT world that health information exchange challenges abound. The CIO of MGH discusses the challenges he has witnessed in Massachusetts.
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- September 22, 2016
22 Sep'16
ONC: More hospitals than ever making information available to patients electronically
Efforts to make health information available to patients are paying off, according to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. ONC published a data brief about how ...
- September 19, 2016
19 Sep'16
ONC national coordinator rebuts report on doctor discontent with EHRs
Vindell Washington, M.D., the new national coordinator for health information technology, hits back at a survey citing widespread physician dissatisfaction with EHRs.
- September 19, 2016
19 Sep'16
CTO: EHR market challenges and how this technology will evolve
The former CTO of Epic Systems Corp. and current CTO of Pure Storage discusses the challenges facing the EHR market today and shares his thoughts on how he thinks EHRs will evolve.
- September 16, 2016
16 Sep'16
HHS awards over $87 million to encourage adoption of health IT
The Department of Health and Human Services is awarding over $87 million in funding to more than 1,300 health centers in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia, as well as Puerto Rico and ...
- September 09, 2016
09 Sep'16
Telemedicine as effective as in-person visits for children with asthma
Telemedicine can be a viable alternative to in-person visits for children with asthma, according to a new study published in Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. The study found that ...