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Apr 21, 2010
The HIT Policy Committee, a federal advisory board, has approved a number of recommendations for increasing oversight of the safety of electronic health records.
Apr 21, 2010
Targeted deployment of health analytics, or business intelligence applications, could improve patient outcomes, increase safety, enhance operational efficiency
Apr 7, 2010
An elderly woman suspected of having a stroke arrives confused at the emergency room. The physician uses the basic information she is able to provide to access the critical medical history that will...
Mar 19, 2010
For translational medicine to succeed, biomedical informaticians need to be part of the team, Indra Neil Sarkar from the University of Vermont's College of Medicine wrote in a paper published in the...
Mar 10, 2010
$19.2 billion of stimulus funds have been set aside for doctors and hospitals making the switch to electronic health records. An update on progress to date and why some practitioners are – for...
Mar 8, 2010
There is a real risk of inadvertent disclosure of personal health information (PHI) through peer-to-peer file sharing networks, although the risk is not as large as for personal financial information...
Kate Ackerman
Feb 25, 2010
A day before the Dec. 31, 2009 deadline for HHS to adopt an initial set of electronic health record standards, CMS and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT released a proposed rule...
Brian Vastag
Jan 22, 2010
Growing up in Soviet Belarus, Vitaly Herasevich didn't spend much time with computers. So when he entered medical school in Minsk in 1994, the school's network for tracking patient data proved an...
Allison Bond
Jan 12, 2010
When a clogged artery landed Peter Szolovits in the hospital for a coronary bypass operation in mid-October, he noticed a few incongruities other patients might not have. Machines that performed...
Laura Trude
Jan 10, 2010
Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) is doing its part to educate some of the estimated 50,000 health information technology (HIT) professionals needed to implement electronic health records...
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