Joseph Conn
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FHIR update addresses workflow
Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources, the 3-year-old data exchange framework, has been updated to enhance clinical decisions and quality measures. → Read More
Consumers fueling outpatient construction
The architects and construction companies who make their living designing and building healthcare facilities are bullish in their outlook on healthcare construction, despite the uncertainty surrounding healthcare policy in Washington, D.C. → Read More
Price breaks public silence on health IT policy
HHS Secretary Dr. Tom Price missed two high-profile opportunities to take a stand on health information technology policy Tuesday, but used a third communication to assure that the federal government will continue to push health IT interoperability. → Read More
Most of the healthcare industry still struggles to overcome barriers to genetics-based patient care.
At cutting-edge healthcare organizations, precision medicine is beginning to affect patient's lives. But most of the healthcare industry is still struggling to overcome significant social, economic and technical barriers to widespread adoption of genetics-based patient care. → Read More
ICD-10 one year later: The drama is over, the rewards yet to materialize
The new codes were touted as essential paving stones on the road to value-based purchasing, leading to improvements in healthcare data analytics, population health management, care quality and lower costs. Those benefits have yet to materialize. → Read More
New ONC tool grades providers on their clinical messages
The tool evaluates the efficacy of their clinical messaging systems and seeks to help those who implement health IT systems by highlighting “areas of improvement which can be made today to move the needle forward, → Read More
People favor sharing of personal medical data—by others more than by themselves
While people generally like the idea of a federally developed, nationwide database aimed at improving medical treatments, many are not keen on giving up their medical information, a new survey shows. → Read More
EHRs vs. paper: a split-decision on accuracy
Which record-keeping system is more accurate for documenting a patient's progress, paper or electronic? There were mixed results after researchers reviewed 500 progress notes written by physicians at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Mich., as it transitioned to an electronic health record system. → Read More
NIH wants 1 million to enroll in precision medicine research program
The Obama administration taps the VA, four leading academic medical centers and six federally qualified health centers to lead the effort to insert 1 million persons' medical records in a database that will further research into personalizing care. → Read More
Wider HIPAA audits may drive stronger vendor contracts
The feds appear to be preparing to clamp down on the sometimes porous flow of patient data handled by vendors of healthcare organizations, which has exploded with the growth of EHRs, analytics and mobile devices in healthcare. → Read More
The dark side of information exchange—inbox overload
Physicians have longed for electronic health record systems that could share information across networks. But as their dreams are being fulfilled, a new problem has emerged—inbox overload. And that burden is causing physician burnout, patient-safety issues and the need for new innovation. → Read More
Healthcare industry giants pledge to ease interoperability, EHR use
The 17 IT companies that made the pledge include Allscripts, athenahealth, Cerner Corp., Epic Systems and Meditech. They provide records systems to 90% of the hospitals in the country. Providers include Ascension, Geisinger, HCA, Intermountain and Kaiser Permanente. → Read More
Blog: Harvard project gets new funds for helping patients control their data
A Harvard University data privacy program won a $450,000 grant from the Knight Foundation to expand its efforts to allow patients and other consumers to map where their personally identifiable information goes and with whom it is shared. → Read More
Cerner CEO Neal Patterson being treated for cancer
Cerner Corp. co-founder, Chairman and CEO Neal Patterson is undergoing cancer treatment, the 66-year-old health IT mogul announced Monday to clients, shareholders and colleagues in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. → Read More
Blog: Healthcare's mission makes it vulnerable to 'social engineering'
A new report states that healthcare's mission of saving lives, its goal of sharing patient data in order to improve treatments, and its largely low investment in cybersecurity makes it attractive to hackers. → Read More
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For accountable care organizations, a lack of interoperability between their health information technology systems and those of providers outside their ACO is the No. 1 challenge they face, cited by 79% of respondents to a survey of 68 ACOs by group purchaser and performance-improvement company Premier and health IT collaborative eHealth Initiative. “Obtaining data from settings outside a… → Read More
Mobile medical apps growing, but many lack proof that they work
Mobile medical applications increasingly are being used by patients and consumers. Now healthcare providers are evaluating whether and how to work with their patients in tapping these apps. But they're proceeding cautiously because of the dearth of clinical evidence for many consumer apps. → Read More
Moody's warns of cybersecurity risks affecting credit ratings
Healthcare companies could see drops in their credit ratings as a result of the dramatic rise in cybercrime, according to the ratings agency Moody's Investors Service. → Read More
Health data cyberattacks spur security operations center
Cyberattacks on the healthcare industry are on the rise. In response, some larger systems, including Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City, are setting up around-the-clock security operations centers, or SOCs, to better deploy cybersecurity personnel, technology and processes in fending off the bad guys. → Read More
Health IT experts working to tackle patient matching problem
Two national health information exchange organizations are soliciting input on ideas for improving how providers and others healthcare organizations match patients to their electronic medical records. And no, they're not recommending a national patient identifier. → Read More