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FDA & FCC, RU Health IT BFFs? OMG!
You've heard of sex, and drugs and rock and roll. How about food, and drugs and communication?
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V.C. Firms Bullish On Health IT
Investments in health IT by venture capital firms nearly doubled in the second quarter.
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In This Race, Bet On The Terp To Win
Each day brings fresh evidence that the transition from paper medical files to electronic medical records has reached a tipping point.
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"America's Top Docs" Gets IT
You can almost hear the squeal of tires and smell the burning rubber.
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Show Them the Money
Final rules governing the adoption of electronic medical records, released this week by the Health and Human Services Department, significantly softened proposed requirements floated earlier this year. The draft regulations generated some 2,000 comments, yet modification of the rules was largely a concession to large special-interest groups, notably the American Medical Association and the American Hospital Association, that had pilloried the proposed regulations as unreasonable and unrealistic.
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Off and Running
The release this week by HHS of final rules for the "meaningful use" of electronic health records is akin to the pop of a starting gun at the outset of a five-year marathon. Well down the road, at the finish line, is a transformed health-care sector that leverages information technology in ways that others sectors--banking, e-commerce, entertainment, et al--embraced years ago.
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HHS Sustains Paper Cuts
The federal government this week acknowledged critics who accused it of overzealously pushing to replace paper medical files with electronic medical records.
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Mental Health Lobby Wants EHRs
Mental health advocates are seeking support on Capitol Hill for a bill that would make mental health providers eligible for billions of dollars in incentives set aside to spur adoption of electronic health records.
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Meaningful Use Vexes CIOs
Eight of 10 hospitals' chief information officers are concerned or very concerned about their ability to meet meaningful use standards for electronic health records on the timetable set by the federal government.
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Health IT Forecast: Cloudless
Hindered by cultural bias and distrust, the healthcare sector's adoption of cloud computing is probably a decade away, experts say.
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Textual Healing
A pilot project underway in California is testing the use of wireless technologies to treat veterans with mental health issues.
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A New iPhone App: Mental Floss
The relentless march of health IT reached a milestone of sorts this week with the release of an iPhone game designed to sharpen users' cognitive health and boost their physical activity.
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EHR Uptake to Take Time
The president is calling for every American to have an electronic medical record by 2014. It is an ambitious goal.
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The Public on Health IT: Huh?
The campaign to replace the country's paper medical files with interoperable electronic records is backed by the full force of the federal government, including tens of billions of dollars. The basic strategy is to entice and/or coerce the country's 800,000 or so doctors to go electronic.
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Health IT Lobby Hits Capitol Hill
Lobbyists gathered in Washington, D.C., for National Health IT Week are blanketing Capitol Hill and pushing a three-point agenda.
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Meaningful Use or Bust
Growing numbers of doctors and hospitals say the deadline for meeting strict "meaningful use" standards set by the government for electronic health records is unrealistic. One man, though, is questioning whether the deadline is sufficiently ambitious.
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Hospitals Woo Docs With E-Docs
Even as hospitals struggle to meet the government's "meaningful use" requirements for electronic health records, another critical factor is emerging that could determine the primacy of EHRs: friendliness of use.
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Docs Ask Feds to Slow IT Rollout
A swelling chorus of skeptics holds that the Obama administration's plan for digitizing the country's medical records is well-intentioned but unrealistic. Rules governing disbursement of incentive funds--valued at $34 billion and intended to promote adoption of new information technology by doctors and hospitals--are simply too stringent, they say.
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Leveraging Community Health Data
Want to see an interactive map on the web that easily compares the health of different communities? There's an app for that. How about an enhanced web search that integrates hospital performance data into hospital search results? There's an app for that. Tools for mobile phones that put new health information at consumers' fingertips? Yep.
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Advise and Consent
As the country lurches toward a future in which electronic medical records replace paper files that are at present the industry standard, resolving the question of how much control patients should have over digital files continues to be a sticky wicket.
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