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- December 14, 2018
14 Dec'18
2 takeaways from Pagosa Springs Medical Center HIPAA settlement
A Colorado hospital has agreed to pay the OCR $111,400 after a former employee allegedly continued to have access to a web-based scheduling calendar and patient protected health information.
- December 12, 2018
12 Dec'18
FDA selects 8 medical device developers into opioid crisis challenge
Eight applicants advance to the next stage of an FDA innovation challenge, which asked medical device developers to tackle the opioid crisis in new ways.
- November 30, 2018
30 Nov'18
Why the FHIR standard may not get us to interoperability
Too many versions of the FHIR API are floating around, and that could stall healthcare's move to interoperability. Can FHIR's supporters and detractors come together?
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- November 29, 2018
29 Nov'18
At RSNA 2018, Google Cloud exec talks customer and product strategy
In this Q&A from RSNA 2018, Google Cloud's Greg Moore touts product strengths and expresses his hope that Google products can help the healthcare industry achieve 'positive digital transformation.'
- November 28, 2018
28 Nov'18
New ONC health IT draft report aims to improve EHR usability
A new draft report from the ONC acknowledges the challenges with EHRs and provides suggested solutions, including decreased regulation and more stakeholder cooperation.
- November 21, 2018
21 Nov'18
RSNA 2018 shines light on AI, machine learning
RSNA 2018 doesn't stray far from last year's themes, so conference-goers should expect to be inundated with all the ways that artificial intelligence and machine learning will modernize the medical imaging field.
- November 14, 2018
14 Nov'18
Will AthenaHealth sale alter customer service, consultant wonders
AthenaHealth announces it is set to be purchased for $5.7 billion by two private equity firms. One consultant plans to watch the new company's customer service levels.
- November 06, 2018
06 Nov'18
A new breed of interoperable EHR apps is coming, but slowly
Pioneering work with the FHIR API is beginning to pay off in interoperable applications for EHRs. And that could mean sweeping changes in healthcare.
- November 05, 2018
05 Nov'18
Allscripts plans to make PDMP data accessible in EHRs
Allscripts partners with Appriss Health to make access to PDMP data easier and available to clinicians within their workflows.
- October 31, 2018
31 Oct'18
CHIME Most Wired survey: Interoperability slowly moves forward
CHIME released its first Most Wired survey at its Fall CIO Forum, and found that the road to interoperability remains bumpy -- but there are signs of improvement.
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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.
- 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.