Katie Dvorak
FierceHealth
Washington, DC, United States
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8 Influential Women in Health IT in 2016
Every year, FierceHealthIT’s annual list of influential women in the industry includes leaders at the forefront of efforts merging patient care with technology. We asked readers to tell us who they think is leading those efforts, and once again, they did not disappoint. → Read More
How to close the disconnect between developers, users of HIT
The disconnect between the developers who create health IT tools and those who use them is a roadblock to true innovation in the industry, according to a trio of health and technology experts. The creators of apps, wearables and IT systems don’t interact often, if at all, with patients and clinicians, which can lead to little understanding for how their tools will be used and what they are… → Read More
CDS Coalition asks FDA to create new guidance type to support case studies
The Food and Drug Administration must create a new approach to guidance beyond the current “comprehensive guidance document that covers and entire field or regulatory topic,” according to the Clinical Decision Support Coalition. → Read More
To convince patients to share data, engage them in the process
If researchers want patients to contribute their health data to initiatives like the Cancer Moonshot, they must release control of who gets access to the study information and when, says Maurie Markman, M.D., president of medicine and science at Cancer Treatment Centers of America. Markman says currently there are little to no incentives for cancer patients to share their data. As a physician,… → Read More
NPs must engage with providers, payers to advance telemedicine
Nurse practitioners must be a key part of the equation when it comes to the growth of telemedicine, including having them engage with payers and hospitals on how to use the technology to best serve patients, according to David Hebert, CEO, American Association of Nurse Practitioners. Hebert says that recent evidence of the positive outcomes telemedicine provides, as well as growing interest in… → Read More
Data-driven parameters can help reduce alarm fatigue
New research finds that use of data-driven parameters to modify and reduce alarm limits is one viable option for cutting alarm fatigue, which regularly is cited as a top healthcare hazard. The study, published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine, focuses on alarm use for hospitalized children at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford. → Read More
US 'standing at doorstep of discovery' with new PMI announcements
The White House is looking to start enrolling patients in the Precision Medicine Initiative by November--and that’s going to take a lot of work from government and provider organizations. In a slew of announcements on the project made late Wednesday, one of the biggest is $55 million in awards for fiscal year 2016 from the National Institutes of Health to build infrastructure for the program… → Read More
Health IT exec: Telemedicine skepticsm among physicans starting to recede
There's a balance needed when it comes to telemedicine care, learning to optimize two systems to deliver the best results possible to patients, according to Kristi Henderson, vice president for virtual care and innovation at Austin, Texas-based Seton Healthcare Family. → Read More
FHIR continues to move ahead in industry
The application programming interface, created by Health Level Seven International, Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) is continuing to move forward, with a normative version in the works, according to an article at HealthData Management. → Read More
Andy Slavitt: Health IT must be 'a national priority'
When Andy Slavitt came to the District of Columbia two years ago, it was because technology was putting health reform in the U.S. at risk. Now, he says, technology is not doing all it can when it comes to patient care, and the industry must "refocus on our customers and rise above proprietary interests to make this a national priority." → Read More
FDA moves forward on UDI regs; Class II must comply by fall
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will move forward on unique device identifiers this fall, requiring that Class II medical devices comply with regulations by Sept. 24. → Read More
University of Chicago to launch interoperable cancer clinical data commons
The University of Chicago is looking to launch a clinical data commons around oncology by the summer to create a resource that can be used by the research community. → Read More
Health IT's role in battling the opioid addiction crisis
The effort by the Obama administration and health officials to tackle the opioid addiction crisis in the United States is heating up--and health IT has a role to play. → Read More
VA touts interoperability progress in congressional testimony
The Department of Veterans' Affairs and the Department of Defense are moving forward on electronic health record sharing, despite previous setbacks, according to testimony from VA officials this week to Congress. → Read More
HIMSS16: CIOs Sue Schade, Deanna Wise lead panel for women who aspire to the C-suite
Health IT execs Sue Schade and Deanna Wise will headline a session on the impact of women executives on the healthcare industry at this year's annual HIMSS convention in Las Vegas. → Read More
HIMSS16: Handles, hashtags and lists
This year's conference will feature hundreds of education sessions and events, about 1,300 vendor exhibits and will be visited by tens of thousands of health IT professionals. You can't be everywhere at once--but you can extend your reach with social media. → Read More
Docs: Why the time for 'precision delivery' is now
The healthcare industry must catch up with other sectors by using predictive data analytics at scale to improve clinical practice and care delivery, according to doctors at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. → Read More
NIH to launch 'Commons' to help scientific researchers better share data
The National Institutes of Health is launching a new project to help scientific researchers better share information. → Read More
Studies on HIE benefits few and far between
More reviews are needed on benefits and impacts of health information exchange, according to researchers who found that clinical outcomes and harms of info sharing are not fully studied. → Read More
Health IT gadgets hit TIME best innovations list
Health IT gadgets are some of the new tools that made an impact this year, according to TIME Magazine's "25 Best Innovations of 2015." → Read More