National Coordinator for Health Information Technology for HHS, Karen DeSalvo, MD, is leaving the position to become Acting Assistant Secretary of Health. In her new position, DeSalvo will join the administration’s Ebola response team.
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Last Thursday, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) announced the launch of Data for Health, an initiative the foundation is starting to look at how health data information can be used to help us lead healthier lives.
OCR is ramping up their HIPAA privacy and security audit program for covered entities (CEs) and business associates (BAs). Delayed until 2015, the second round of HIPAA audits is expected to be more pragmatic and comprehensive.
Nearly every large health network has made an attempt to consolidate data from multiple sources into some type of data warehouse. However, having the data in one place does not make it useful or trusted as a source for business intelligence.
The federal government’s top health IT advisors made important recommendations on how public and private stakeholders should progress towards interoperability in healthcare. Leaders from the…
The future of interoperability was discussed and endorsed by a joint meeting of the Standards and Policy Committees. We began with a preamble clearly stating that the roadmap we’re working on is a process not a finished product.
HHS and ONC submitted the annual report to Congress on progress on the HITECH Act including health IT adoption, health information exchange and use of electronic health information to advance better care and better health. This report highlights progress and accomplishments.
On October 14-15, a group of healthcare leaders gathered for the Connected Healthcare Summit in San Diego to share ideas about the current mobile health technology landscape.
The highly anticipated final recommendations from the JASON task force arrived on last Wednesday afternoon. JASON, a group of independent scientists who advise the federal government, issued a November 2013 report to HHS and ONC on the matter of interoperability.