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When putting protected health information into the cloud, healthcare organizations need to consider the legal liabilities. That starts with controlling your response to data breaches, and includes an incident response plan.
San Francisco-based start-up Castlight Health, whose mission is to shed light on healthcare pricing, has raised $100 million in Series D funding. This new round of investment brings its total funding to $181 million.
CHIME, which represents 1,400 healthcare CIOs across the country, is asking the government for more preparation time to demonstrate Stage 2 meaningful use, hoping to make sure the reporting is just so.
David Bodycombe of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health on how health IT -- EHRs, predictive modeling, PHRs, genomic profiles -- are ushering in an era of greater individualization of care that will improve, among other things, treatment of patients with multi-morbidities.
Classic wedge or media ploy? Either way, the contraception controversy and proposed legislation may be more a tactic to get women to voting booths than anything else.
The changes taking place in U.S. healthcare as a result of rapid healthcare IT adoption leave the nation's health IT chief Farzad Mostashari optimistic -- especially about improving quality, he told the audience at a meeting of the National Quality Forum Thursday, as he urged: "Keep our eyes on the prize."
Just in time to consider for comments on ONC's proposed rule on meaningful use Stage 2 (comment period ends May 7), John Loonsk, MD, makes a case for data transfer standards more functional than SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) called for in MU Stage 2 - Loonsk describes SMTP as a "dead end."
Kate Berry, CEO of the National eHealth Collaborative, which recently released a roadmap for establishing and operating successful health information exchanges (see page XX), figures she caught the healthcare bug from her family. Her parents met in a hospital. Her mother, a dietician, ran the cafeteria and later did public health research. At the time, her father was studying for his doctorate in biochemistry. Her sister is a physical therapist.
Healthcare professionals have increased their use of social media to look for jobs compared to last year, according to a new survey by recruitment firm AMN Healthcare.
Data warehousing and decision support aren't exactly new. "Hospitals have had data warehouses for a long time," says Mary Griskewicz, senior director of health information systems at HIMSS. "I was working at a hospital 15 years ago, and we had one."