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- December 16, 2016
16 Dec'16
Hot in 2016: Data blocking and patient access to personal information
In 2016, the health IT world spent a lot of time addressing data blocking issues and patients' access to personal information like their health records. Learn more in this photo story.
- December 15, 2016
15 Dec'16
Patients want info in one place
Health data and patients' electronic access to their own health information are real, personal issues, not just the stuff of health IT government and vendor debate. Some 94% of respondents in a new ...
- December 15, 2016
15 Dec'16
IBM Watson enters cyber security arena to improve security in healthcare and other industries
Cognitive computing may be the next big advance in health IT security. According to a recent study from the IBM Institute for Business Value, nearly 60% of security professionals say cognitive ...
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- December 09, 2016
09 Dec'16
Telemedicine pediatrics is focus of new telehealth provider offering
The Nemours children's health system is offering pediatric telemedicine services for out-of-state patients as part of the new American Well telehealth exchange.
- December 07, 2016
07 Dec'16
The 21st Century Cures Act: Implications for Health IT
The U.S. Senate passed the 21st Century Cures Act on Dec. 6, legislation that has some important implications for health IT including providing funding to initiatives started by President Barack ...
- December 02, 2016
02 Dec'16
RSNA 2016: to cloud or not to cloud
CHICAGO - Scott Seidelmann, founder and CEO of Candescent Health, a cloud medical imaging service vendor and sort of spin-off of cloud EHR vendor athenahealth, Inc., got off a plane and headed ...
- November 30, 2016
30 Nov'16
VNAs must push medical imaging technology boundaries
This issue of SearchHealthIT's Pulse zeroes in on vendor neutral archives -- a distinctive, medical imaging technology in healthcare designed to allow providers to view images in a standard format.
The market for medical imaging ...
- November 30, 2016
30 Nov'16
The vendor neutral archive market heats up as technology advances
As technology advances, health systems are increasingly adopting vendor neutral archives to store, share and analyze medical images from multiple specialties, not only radiology.
- November 29, 2016
29 Nov'16
RSNA 2016 features AI, cloud and VNAs for medical imaging
Artificial intelligence and machine learning in medical imaging and cloud and telemedicine applications for radiology are among the technologies featured at RSNA 2016 in Chicago.
- November 18, 2016
18 Nov'16
Health data breaches down in October
The number of health data breaches decreased for the second month in a row following a summer that saw a record number of breaches, according to the Protenus Breach Barometer. There were 35 ...
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- November 11, 2016
11 Nov'16
ONC health IT report: EHR use up, but work remains
The 2016 annual report from Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology found that the use of EHR technology has dramatically increased in the past eight years. The report ...
- November 10, 2016
10 Nov'16
Experts say how Trump presidency might affect the future of health IT
What will the future of health IT be under the new Trump administration? Health IT experts offer up predictions and reassurances for the future.
- November 07, 2016
07 Nov'16
The CHIME bell sounds
PHOENIX -- Yes, the CHIME 2016 Fall Forum, the College of Health Information Management Executives' biggest annual conference, came with a soundtrack. And we're not talking Foreigner, the 70s-rock ...
- November 04, 2016
04 Nov'16
White House CIO warns health CIOs to beware the internet of things
In keynote at CHIME16 Fall CIO Forum conference of healthcare CIOs, White House CIO Tony Scott says they should be wary of the internet of things and focus on cybersecurity.
- November 02, 2016
02 Nov'16
At 2016 CHIME CIO forum, health IT CIO group chief looks ahead
In a podcast from the CHIME fall forum in Phoenix, Russ Branzell, CEO of the health IT CIO organization, explains CHIME's policy agenda for 2017.