Using EHRs to Help Advance Drug Development and Safety Monitoring
Collectively EHRs Represent Huge Amounts of Data By Janet Woodcock, MD, Director of FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research Not long ago, electronic health records…
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Now’s the Time: Get HIPAA Compliant
OCR Warns Enforcement To Increase Dramatically By Matt Fisher, Esq Twitter: @matt_r_fisher Recent reports, statements and actions from the government emphasize the need for all…
Eligibility for the Clinical Informatics Subspecialty
2014 Update William Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair, OHSU Blog: Informatics Professor One of the posts in this blog with the most page views ever…
EHR Promise vs Reality
Does the EHR Have Value? William A. Hyman Professor Emeritus, Biomedical Engineering Texas A&M University, w-hyman@tamu.edu Read other articles by this author On a recent…
June HIT Standards Committee Meeting Recap
Updates and Evaluation By John Halamka, MD Twitter: @jhalamka The June HIT Standards Committee focused on an update and evaluation of the standards and interoperability…
FDA Encourages Medical Device Data System Innovation
Medical Device Data Systems Pose Low Risk By Bakul Patel Thanks to advances in digital health, doctors and their patients are more frequently using computer…
Predictions: Top mHealth App Categories in 5 Years
What Benefits Will They Bring? By Tom Sullivan, Executive Editor, Government Health IT Twitter: @GovHITEditor It’s becoming almost cliché to suggest that at some point in the…
What is the Right Amount of Profit in Healthcare?
Can You Put a Price on Treatments That Saves a Life? William Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair, OHSU Blog: Informatics Professor I have written in…
The Recent ONC Reorganization
Looking at the Reorganization of HHS’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology By John Halamka, MD Twitter: @jhalamka Many people have asked me…