Health IT Business News Wrap-Up – December 2, 2012
MThis Week’s Health IT Business News A few weeks back our own Jim Tate wrote an EHR Swan Song to the demise of a small…
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CMS Readies IT, Analytics for Waves of Health Reform Data
CMS Creates an Office of Information Products and Data Analysis Mary Mosquera Senior Editor, Government Health IT The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will have…
OCR Releases Guide for De-Identifying Patient Health Information
Recommends Two Methods for De-Identifying PHI The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) enforces the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and oversees health information…
Electronic Health Records vs. Patient Privacy: Who Will Win?
Patient privacy being challenged as patient records are digitized by Rick Kam, ID Experts Does your dermatologist need access to your reproductive health history? Can…
Health Care System To Benefit From Recent HIE Progress
Reason for Optimism About Health Information Exchange By Brian Ahier, writing for iHealthBeat.org The stars seem to be aligned for rapid progress in health information…
New Report Looks at Impact of Telehealth
Telehealth in an Evolving Health Care Environment The Institute of Medicine (IOM) is a nonprofit organization providing unbiased and authoritative research and advice to both decision makers…
Health IT Business News Wrap-up – November 18, 2012
This Week’s Health IT Business News Interoperability. Some have it, everyone wants it. The topic was front and center on Capitol Hill this past Wednesday where…
Clinton Foundation to Take On US Health Disparities
The Clinton Health Matters Initiative (CHMI) On Tuesday, President Clinton announced the newest William J. Clinton Foundation health care project with partners GE, Tenet Healthcare…
Next Steps for the Clinical Informatics Subspecialty
Initial Certification Exam and Board Review Course William Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair, OHSU Blog: Informatics Professor Progress on the clinical informatics subspecialty for physicians continues…