By Genevieve Morris – The 21st Century Cures Act, signed into law in December 2016, calls on the ONC to work with federal partners, including the NIST, and the healthcare and health IT industries to provide interoperability for all.
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By Lee Horner – Many providers are still wary of telehealth, as they are of any tool or technology that will require them to practice differently. However, emerging technology which does not require providers to alter their workflows are revealing a totally new value proposition.
By Dr. Nick van Terheyden – Technology continues to move at an exponential pace, leaving virtually no industry untouched. Healthcare is no exception — the technological progress in this space is offering incredible opportunities to improve the health of our population…
By Matt Ferrari – In episode three of my HealthcareNOW Radio show, “CTO Talk” I have the pleasure of sharing some time with Scott Maurice, the co-founder and managing partner of Avail Partners.
By Teresa Rivera – When you think of health information exchange (HIE), you probably envision doctors receiving hospital admission and discharge alerts, or accessing critical medical records.
By William Hersh MD – As longtime readers of this blog know, I always end each year with an annual reflection on the year past. I did this in the first year of the blog of 2009, and have done it every year since.
By Matt Fisher – Healthcare experienced a large degree of uncertainty and fluctuation in 2017. Almost no day passed without news of action or activity impacting the industry. All of the back and forth left healthcare buffeted and ready for a rest. Unfortunately, that rest is unlikely to come in 2018.
By Rebecca Hafner-Fogarty, MD – Recently an opinion piece in JAMA came to my attention. In it, Drs. Nochomovitz and Sharma called for a new medical specialty to be recognized: the medical virtualist.
By Scott Gottlieb MD & Jeffrey Shuren, MD JD – Recently, the Food and Drug Administration has committed to several new policies that will modernize the agency’s approach to regulation in the medical device system.