Apple’s Health App and HealthKit and HIPAA
Will the Hippo Swallow the Apple? By Matt Fisher, Esq Twitter: @matt_r_fisher At its annual Worldwide Developers Conference on June 2, 2014, Apple announced its…
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Early Reaction to the EHR Incentive NPRM
CMS Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for EHR Incentive Programs By John Halamka, MD Last week, I posted the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking from CMS that offers…
Can the US Biomedical Research Enterprise Be Sustained?
Implications for Informatics William Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair, OHSU Blog: Informatics Professor Although I focus a good deal of my writing in this blog…
Why Mobile EHR Access is Healthcare’s Next Big Thing
Exercise Caution with EHRs Accessing Mobile Devices By Zach Watson Twitter: @Technology_Adv 78 percent of office-based physicians use electronic healthcare records, which means the construction…
CDS and the “Learned Intermediary”
Clinical Decision Support William A. Hyman Professor Emeritus, Biomedical Engineering Texas A&M University, w-hyman@tamu.edu Read other articles by this author Part of the discussion in…
Health Data is Still Siloed in the Institutions that Created Them
Communicating Across Institutional Barriers By Robert Rowley, MD, co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of Flow Health Twitter: @RRowleyMD In healthcare, there has been much talk…
EHR Integrated Patient Portals
Patient Portals as it Relates to Engagement By Zach Watson Twitter: @Technology_Adv Having been forecast for some time now, the hour of the patient portal…
Claims Data – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
By Robert Rowley, MD, co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of Flow Health Twitter: @RRowleyMD As we move towards building a universal patient-centered data platform in…
Another HIPAA Breach, Another Lesson
OCR’s Continued Use of Settlements By Matt Fisher Twitter: @matt_r_fisher On Wednesday, May 7th, the Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) for the Department of Health…