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- January 11, 2017
11 Jan'17
ICD-10 glitches cause CMS to back off
It turns out the transition to ICD-10 didn't go quite as smoothly as previously thought, particularly for the small practice physicians who were most anxious about the changeover from ICD-9 on Oct. ...
- January 04, 2017
04 Jan'17
Intermountain’s part in DoD-Cerner EHR project
I caught up with Intermountain Healthcare CIO and vice president Marc Probst at the CHIME16 Fall CIO Forum and got a chance to ask him about Intermountain's role in what is one of the biggest EHR ...
- December 30, 2016
30 Dec'16
ONC launches health IT privacy policy challenge
ONC has launched a challenge for developers, designers and health data privacy experts to create an online model privacy notice generator for health IT products that will encourage transparency and ...
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- December 29, 2016
29 Dec'16
Marc Probst calls for government healthcare interoperability standards
Intermountain CIO Marc Probst is well known for insisting that the government set interoperability standards for health IT so providers and vendors can freely exchange health data.
- December 28, 2016
28 Dec'16
Joint Commission bans CPOE secure texting for physicians
Vendors and patient advocates criticize computerized physician order entry ban following new Joint Commission and CMS clarification of secure texting rules.
- December 23, 2016
23 Dec'16
ONC releases 2017 Interoperability Standards Advisory updates
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has released its 2017 Interoperability Standards Advisory, which expands its focus on health research interoperability, ...
- December 23, 2016
23 Dec'16
Trends in health IT for 2017: Ransomware, RPA, blockchain predictions
A health IT expert weighs in on the top trends in health IT for 2017, including predictions about ransomware, RPA and blockchain.
- December 20, 2016
20 Dec'16
Writers discuss their favorite interviews with healthcare IT experts
SearchHealthIT's writers talked to a lot of big leaders in health IT in 2016. In this video, our journalists discuss their favorite personalities and moments.
- 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 ...
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- 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 ...
- 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 ...