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Clinical documentation—don’t underestimate the power of the pen 27 Aug 2013 | 11:40 am
"The pen is mightier than the sword", or so wrote author Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1839 for his play Richelieu; Or the Conspiracy . To that I might now add, the pen (or rather the stylus) is mightier th...
One Government EHR for All of Healthcare 27 Aug 2013 | 11:40 am
Over and over I hear some doctor or EHR industry person say, “Why doesn’t the government just provide one EHR for all of healthcare?” Usually this is followed by some suggestion that the government ha...
Advocate Health Care Reports Second Biggest HIPAA Breach 27 Aug 2013 | 11:20 am
More than four million patients could be at risk after a July theft of four computers from Advocate Medical Group in Park Ridge, Ill. The computers contained information such as patient names, address...
Beacons' bold experiment 26 Aug 2013 | 11:20 pm
National Coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari, MD, launched his talk about the Beacon Communities at a meeting last May by talking about Thomas Frieden, MD, a former colleague in New York City,...
The 3 Ms of pop health platforms 26 Aug 2013 | 11:20 pm
Sometimes, ideas in healthcare have a way of starting small but quickly getting much bigger. Take Care Team Connect, an Evanston, Ill.-based IT firm that provides software platforms for population hea...
Leapfrog, URAC seek better websites 26 Aug 2013 | 11:20 pm
The Leapfrog Group and URAC, the national accreditation body, are accepting applications for their joint Hospital Website Transparency Awards. This awards program, now in its second year, identifies...
Behemoth breach sounds alarm for 4M 26 Aug 2013 | 11:20 pm
In the second biggest HIPAA breach ever reported, one of the nation's largest healthcare systems is notifying more than four million patients that their protected health information and Social Securit...
North Carolina pushes price transparency 26 Aug 2013 | 11:20 pm
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services’ website will soon be publishing the prices of the 140 most common in-patient, surgical and imaging services performed by every hospital in t...
Health IT Business News Roundup for the Week of August 23, 2013 24 Aug 2013 | 11:20 pm
Fitbit, a provider of activity tracking devices, has secured $43 million in funding led by Softbank Capital. Richard Kronick -- former HHS deputy assistant secretary for planning and evaluation -- has...
Doctor Loses Access to EHRs; Mirrors ONC EHR Contract Concerns 24 Aug 2013 | 11:20 pm
A Canadian doctor lost access to more than 1,500 electronic health records when she left a medical group to start her own practice, highlighting issues expressed by the Office of the National Coordina...
