Category: eHealth

Healthcare organizations must address consumers’ concerns about individual control and privacy of their information to make health information exchanges and distributed research networks work, according to new research published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. read more …read more Source:: http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/individuals-worry-ehrs-data-exchanges-worsen-privacy-security/2015-04-01?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss       

0 It was an honor to chair the healthcare IT section of the World Health Care Congress last week, and within that section, to moderate a panel discussion that probed some of the common challenges facing both military and civilian U.S. healthcare read more …read more Source:: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/healthcare-informatics/~3/ZVnelizpsV8/military-or-civilian-sphere-healthcare-it-challenges-look-equally-systemic       

A newly former working group of the advisory committee to the National Institutes of Health Director will consist of precision medicine experts who will seek public input on the development of the President Barack Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative. read more …read more Source:: http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/nih-team-help-shape-precision-medicine-initiative/2015-03-31?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss       

The healthcare industry should turn to libraries to learn how to share information, according to Charis Anne Baz Takaro, a project/policy analyst at University Health Services at the University of California, Berkeley. read more …read more Source:: http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/what-libraries-can-teach-healthcare-about-interoperability/2015-03-30?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss       

Thirty-three employees in Reading Health System’s IT division will be laid off, according to the Reading Eagle. read more …read more Source:: http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/reading-health-system-shrinks-it-division-following-ehr-installation/2015-03-27?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss       

While the both proposed rule for Stage 3 of Meaningful Use and the accompanying certification rule emphasize the use of application programming interfaces for sharing health information with patients, that outlined proposal doesn’t go far enough, according to Ashish Jha, a professor of international health at the Harvard School of Public Health. read more …read…

Today, hospitals and clinics face a dilemma. On the one hand, they are under increasing efficiency pressure, while on the other hand, demands on patient comfort are on the rise. …read more Source:: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20150326/New-streamlined-solution-for-the-E-health-sector.aspx       

Information technology and the interoperability of electronic patient data will be critical components to President Barack Obama’s new Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network initiative, National Coordinator for Health IT Karen DeSalvo said at a kickoff event for the effort on Wednesday. read more …read more Source:: http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/data-sharing-information-technology-key-new-white-house-care-initiative/2015-03-25?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss       

As details continue to emerge following the recent hack attacks on payers Anthem and Premera–in which information for close to 90 million consumers combined may have been put at risk–perhaps the most disturbing revelation of all is that, in both instances, neither entity appears to truly take security seriously. read more …read more Source:: http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/disturbing-truth-behind-premera-anthem-attacks/2015-03-24?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss…