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Using Health Technology to Track Your Health
ONC’s Healthy New Year Video Contest third place video shows how one office uses health technology to get healthy, manage and track their health, and share h… Video Rating: 5 / 5 mSakhi, (where ‘Sakhi’ means ‘a friend’ in Hindi), is an interactive vernacular audio/video-guided mobile application that provides support to ASHAs in condu… Video…
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A Physician IPA-Developed HIE in Massachusetts: Moving Forward on a Journey
At the Newburyport-based Whittier IPA, a 200-physician organization caring for patients in the northeastern corner of Massachusetts, Joe Heyman, M.D., the organization’s CMIO, is helping to lead the ongoing development of a totally physician-created and –sustained health information exchange. Joe Heyman, M.D. is an obstetrician/gynecologist who practices half-time and who also serves as CMIO of…
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Data Breach Ruling Might be Good News for Providers
The second appellate district Court of Appeals in California ruled in favor of UCLA Health this week, after a patient sued the provider for damages based on a breach that leaked the protected health information (PHI) of approximately 16,000 patients. The ruling could have a positive affect on all healthcare providers, one industry association says.…
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AMC Health provides telemonitors to NIH asthma study
Under a Small Business Innovation Research grant awarded to Delaware-based Asthma Management Systems from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, AMC Health has announced that its… read more Source: AMC Health provides telemonitors to NIH asthma study
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UCLA Health dodges $16 million breach claim
In a ruling that seems to run counter to HIPAA, a California appellate court has ruled that providers aren’t necessarily liable to patients when medical records are stolen or misappropriated unless they are accessed by a third party. read more From: http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/ucla-health-dodges-16-million-breach-claim/2013-10-18?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss
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GAO pushes for removal of Social Security numbers from Medicare IDs
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has been slow to act on data it has collected that could help it implement a technical solution for removing Social Security numbers from Medicare cards, a newly released Government Accountability Office report concluded. read more From: http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/gao-pushes-removal-social-security-numbers-medicare-ids/2013-10-18?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss
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Parents Using PHRs More Likely To Get In All Well-Child Visits
Parents using an integrated PHR were more likely to take their young children to all recommended well-child visits, according to a Kaiser Permanente study reported in iHealthBeat. More than 4.3 million members are registered to use Kaiser’s PHR, My Health Manager, on kp.org. During the first half of this year, patients have viewed 17.5 million…
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Digital health: Too much duplication
Is digital health all talk and no action? One Forbes contributor fed up with one wearable technology invention after another, thinks so. read more Source: Digital health: Too much duplication
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Toolkit designed to make biomedical data exploration easier
Researchers have developed an open-source platform for creating software applications that make complex data understandable and accessible to those without sophisticated informatics expertise…. read more Source: Toolkit designed to make biomedical data exploration easier