Author: trident50
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FDA won’t regulate medical device data systems
Draft guidance published Friday by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration seemingly paves the way for smoother medical device interoperability by lowering the burden on developers of medical device data systems (MDDS) to comply with agency requirements. read more …read more
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Standard interfaces: Always different
0 Ever look at an Interface Schema? It is like looking at a road map with streets leading to various destinations. Accountable Care Organizations (ACO), Meaningful Use, Data Warehouses and every clinical or business Healthcare system depends on interfaces. Yet it is often the most overlooked, underappreciated, and misunderstood systems in Healthcare Information Technology. read…
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WEDI continues HIPAA training for small providers
Helping small providers boost HIPAA awareness remains “a work in progress,” Devin Jopp, president and CEO of the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange, told Health IT Security. read more …read more
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AHIMA’s Lynne Thomas Gordon: Data governance crucial for healthcare
Information is power–and to that end, information governance is crucial for the healthcare industry, according to American Health Information Management Association CEO Lynne Thomas Gordon. read more …read more
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Global e-prescribing market to reach $887 million by 2019
The global market for e-prescribing systems is expected to grow from $250.2 million in 2013 to $887.8 million by 2019, according to a report from Transparency Market Research. read more …read more
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Readers Write: AMA Adopts New Recommendations on Telemedicine, Signaling Further Comfort with Telehealth
AMA Adopts New Recommendations on Telemedicine, Signaling Further Comfort with Telehealth By Alexis Gilroy, JD Earlier this month, the American Medical Association (“AMA”) approved recommendations regarding the provision of medical services using telecommunications technologies (commonly known as “telemedicine”). AMA’s report, on the heels of a policy adopted in April by the Federation of State Medical…
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Lack of federal funding and Medicaid expansions can impact community health centers
A special federal fund to support community health centers expires after September 2015, creating a funding cliff for primary care clinics located in medically underserved areas. …read more
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Insider-trading investigation involving Capitol Hill staff and Medicare policy heats up
The Wall Street Journal reports that prosecutors have issued grand jury subpoenas for evidence related to whether congressional staffers provided advance information to stock traders regarding a change in health care policy. …read more
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Vendor Creates EMR For Google Glass
Well, here’s an interesting development. An EMR company has created an app allowing doctors using Google Glass to store patient data on a cloud-based storage and collaboration site. The vendor, California-based Drchrono, is claiming that the application is the first “wearable health record.” Whether or not that’s the case, this is clearly a step forward…
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Low-income, uninsured patients feel stigma when interacting with health care providers
Some low-income, uninsured and Medicaid patients report feeling stigma when interacting with health care providers, finds a new report in The Milbank Quarterly. …read more