Dan Bowman
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Northern, VA, United States
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Patricia Van Dyke
Patricia Van Dyke, Director of Privacy and Information Security, Moda Health; Board Chair, HL7; Registered Nurse in Emergency Care, St. Vincent Medical Center → Read More
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
Hurdles remain to comparing EHR usability
Despite doctors’ continued concerns about the usability of their electronic health records, comparing those experiences remains a highly difficult proposition, say researchers with MedStar Health and the Georgetown University School of Medicine. → Read More
FDA guidance aims to clarify form, content for med device UDIs
Draft guidance released this morning by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration aims to clarify “expected content and forms” of unique device identifiers for medical devices. → Read More
ONC task force recommends PMI addendum to Interoperability Roadmap
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT should consider developing a Precision Medicine Initiative addendum to its Interoperability Roadmap, the agency's Precision Medicine Task Force recommended this week. → Read More
Amid efforts to better share clinical research info, don't let 'data dumpsters' flourish
Information sharing for clinical research must comprise of more than raw data dumps, according to researchers who advocate for the funding and development of platforms to "standardize, clean and curate data into usable formats." → Read More
Joe Biden: Sharing of health data 'a matter of life and death'
Not even the vice president of the United States is immune to poor electronic health record interoperability. → Read More
CMS shares IT requirements for CPC+ program
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, on a webinar Thursday, laid out IT requirements for practices and vendors looking to participate in the agency's Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) initiative, announced earlier this month. → Read More
CMS anticipates big role for health IT in CPC+ initiative
Technology will play a big role in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' massive multi-payer initiative to boost primary care quality, which was announced Monday. → Read More
OpenNotes helps to improve misunderstandings between docs, patients
One of the biggest benefits of the OpenNotes initiative has been clarification of misunderstandings between patients and clinicians, according to the Commonwealth Fund. → Read More
Homer Chin: Vendor support for OpenNotes a 'necessary but insufficient condition' [Q&A]
The OpenNotes project, which aims to better engage patients by allowing them real-time access to their doctor's clinical notes, continues to evolve and expand. → Read More
HIMSS16: Tackling the impossible task of cybersecurity
While attendees at this year's Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society conference in Las Vegas no doubt will be interested in hearing about how providers, payers and innovative... → Read More
An industry in turmoil: Poor cyberthreat prep puts patients in danger
Healthcare is "an industry in turmoil" where patient health is "extremely vulnerable" due to insufficient cybersecurity efforts, according to authors of a new two-year research study. → Read More
FDA unveils draft guidance for medical device interoperability
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday unveiled draft guidance it hopes the medical device industry will follow for including interoperability in the design and development of such tools. → Read More
Technology, analytics boost population health management at Geisinger [Q&A]
In a recent interview with FierceHealthIT, Eric Newman, M.D., vice-chair for clinical innovations in the Geisinger's division of medicine, and Chanin Wendling, director of Geisinger in Motion, discuss how each entity takes advantage of technology and innovation to close care gaps and improve results. → Read More
Steady growth for remote patient monitoring market predicted through 2020
The remote patient monitoring market in the U.S. is expected to grow roughly 13.2 percent per year through 2020, new a new analysis from Frost & Sullivan finds. → Read More
Omnibus funding bill requires HHS to convene cybersecurity taskforce
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services would be on the hook for convening a cybersecurity task force and submitting a report to Congress next year on the ability of HHS, and the healthcare industry at large, to respond to cybersecurity threats, under an omnibus funding bill unveiled Wednesday morning. → Read More
Updated HHS-European Union health IT initiative looks to boost transnational innovation
Innovation will be a key part of a modernized collaborative effort between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the European Commission's Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content & Technology (DG CONNECT). → Read More
FDA officials: Don't overlook the importance of health IT terminology
When it comes to data in healthcare, the correct use of terminology, while many times overlooked, is every bit as vital to industry success, according to U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials Robert Califf and Rachel Sherman. → Read More