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- October 31, 2018
31 Oct'18
New effort seeks to standardize business associates agreements
To get new technology into hospitals faster, the Digital Health Collaborative wants to standardize security risk assessments and business associates agreements.
- October 24, 2018
24 Oct'18
HIEs provide access to patient records in wake of Hurricane Michael
By October 18, Hurricane Michael, the strongest U.S. storm in terms of maximum sustained wind speed since Hurricane Andrew in 1992, left 35 people dead and displaced over 300,000 people in Florida, ...
- October 24, 2018
24 Oct'18
Broadband will boost telemedicine applications, FCC chairman says
Telemedicine proponents have an ally: the chairman of the FCC. Here's what Ajit Pai has planned to get broadband into poor and rural communities in the U.S.
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- October 16, 2018
16 Oct'18
News roundup: 3 new blockchain in healthcare use cases
Three companies see the promise of blockchain in healthcare in this week's news roundup. Here's the latest from Change Healthcare, MTBC and Ambrosus.
- October 05, 2018
05 Oct'18
Medicare's new member of its healthcare data center: The cloud
The U.S. Digital Service is slowly moving a Medicare mainframe to the cloud as a way to prepare for value-based care. Here's a look inside the office's deliberate strategy.
- October 02, 2018
02 Oct'18
AHIMA Convention 2018 highlights EHR innovations
Health information professionals shared visions of more effective EHR systems at the 2018 AHIMA Convention, including how to better identify LGBTQ patients in EHRs.
- August 17, 2018
17 Aug'18
Tech giants support FHIR standard. Will that make a difference?
Six tech giants have vowed to help healthcare interoperability efforts. It could be encouraging, or no help at all. Experts offer their predictions on the value.
- August 15, 2018
15 Aug'18
McAfee threat research team uncovers healthcare security risks
The McAfee advanced threat research team has shown that a weak communications protocol can lead to a 'man-in-the-middle' attack that could be hazardous to a patient's health.
- August 03, 2018
03 Aug'18
Missouri hospital sued over medical records breach
A lawsuit has been filed against Children's Mercy Hospital after the medical records of more than 60,000 patients were potentially compromised as a result of a phishing scam.
- July 26, 2018
26 Jul'18
Expert questions funds for interoperability challenges in healthcare
Up to $2 million will be provided by the ONC to two recipients to address interoperability challenges in healthcare, but one expert questions if it will be enough.
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- July 25, 2018
25 Jul'18
Healthcare APIs get a new trial run for Medicare claims
Blue Button 2.0 is a new healthcare API aimed at making sense of Medicare claims. Developed by the U.S. Digital Service at HHS, the API is in 500 developer hands so far.
- July 17, 2018
17 Jul'18
CMS creates chief health informatics officer position
The newly created chief health informatics officer position for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will focus on developing a health IT strategy for CMS.
- July 11, 2018
11 Jul'18
To fix healthcare IT, start with medical appointment reminders
All the talk about interoperability in healthcare misses the point, according to Rick Halton, vice president of Lumeon, a European automated care pathway platform provider that moved in to the US ...
- July 06, 2018
06 Jul'18
Can value-based care models cut costs? Yes, they can
While value-based care efforts can be hard to implement and aging technology services don't always support them, these efforts are gaining a foothold and saving money.
- June 26, 2018
26 Jun'18
News briefs: Study outlines best practices for patient matching
Two organizations seek to improve patient identity management. A cybersecurity firm published a study on PHI sold on the dark web. And the FDA permitted the marketing of an AI algorithm for wrist-fracture detection.