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• 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 ...

• September 09, 2016 09 Sep'16

  For Interoperability Standards Advisory, ONC aims for Wikipedia style

  In a Twitter chat, an ONC executive discussed plans to enhance 2017 interoperability technology specifications. Chat members also brought up meaningful use and blockchain.

• September 07, 2016 07 Sep'16

  To delay MACRA or not is the question

  Eight high-ranking congressmen are calling on federal healthcare officials to consider "flexibilities" in administering the new MACRA healthcare law, particularly as it applies to small physician ...

• September 01, 2016 01 Sep'16

  ONC Blockchain Challenge winners show health IT uses

  A wide range of possible use cases for blockchain in healthcare are revealed in 15 papers chosen by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology as the top proposals ...

• August 29, 2016 29 Aug'16

  Informatics and analytics: closer ties in wake of health data boom

  In the wake of an explosion in the volume of digital health data, medical informatics and analytics are becoming more allied as informaticians seek to extract the best data.

• August 29, 2016 29 Aug'16

  Advances in health technology groom analytics, data sharing still lags

  With advances in health technology and data analytics comes far-flung potential -- but only if electronic health record systems allow information to be shared more freely.

• August 29, 2016 29 Aug'16

  Data analytics boosts value-based reimbursement and clinical decisions

  In this issue of Pulse, SearchHealthIT's writers explore the current state of data analytics use in clinical care and peek into what the future holds. In the cover story, News Writer Kristen Lee presents a timeline of future uses of data in ...

• August 26, 2016 26 Aug'16

  VA partners with NCI, DoD for precision medicine program

  The Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) is partnering with the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the Department of Defense (DoD) to form the nation's first screening program intended to provide ...

• August 26, 2016 26 Aug'16

  Data analytics aids value-based reimbursement, but bigger goals loom

  Although data analytics will play a role in precision medicine, experts say we're far from achieving the full potential. Instead, the focus of analytics now is on value-based care.

• August 25, 2016 25 Aug'16

  Members of CommonWell will enable patients to access health data

  If you're a patient of a hospital or physician that is using the technology of a CommonWell Health Alliance member—including Cerner Corp., athenahealth, Inc., and McKesson Corporation, to name a ...

• August 19, 2016 19 Aug'16

  Many health and fitness apps lack privacy policies

  A recent study by the Future of Privacy Forum found that the top health and fitness apps lag behind other types of apps in terms of privacy policies -- only 70% of the top 100 health and fitness ...

• August 17, 2016 17 Aug'16

  E-prescribing of controlled substances on sharp rise

  Electronic prescribing of controlled substances, or EPCS, such as opioids increased dramatically in 2015, according to Surescripts Inc., the national pharmacy IT network. ECPS is now allowed in all ...

• August 12, 2016 12 Aug'16

  Karen DeSalvo, M.D., out as ONC national coordinator to focus on HHS

  In the waning days of the administration, ONC national coordinator Karen DeSalvo, M.D., leaves ONC to focus full time on her other post as acting assistant HHS secretary for health.

• August 10, 2016 10 Aug'16

  Dentists and meaningful use

  It may be time for dentists to sink their teeth into meaningful use. Dentists, while theoretically eligible for the federal EHR incentive program, have for the most part stayed away because there ...

• August 05, 2016 05 Aug'16

  MHealth apps too complicated for vulnerable populations

  There's no denying that mHealth apps have the potential to help patients better manage their health. But according to a recent study conducted by researchers from the University of California, San ...