Patient Centered Health IT as the Solution to Universal Health Identifiers
Robert Rowley, MD Twitter: @RRowleyMD The effort to build health IT products that are patient-facing, and able to pull together all the health information about…
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STAT! Is Meaningful Use Trouble Under Your Network’s Skin?
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Safety Event Reporting by Patient Safety Organizations
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Q&A: HHS CTO Bryan Sivak on Disrupting Government Culture
By Tom Sullivan Editor, Government Health IT The term disruption is perhaps a bit overused in the technology and healthcare sectors these days, but if…
Patient-generated health information is the future of healthcare
Robert Rowley, MD Twitter: @RRowleyMD “Patient engagement” has certainly become a buzz-word in the realm of modern health IT. Medical practitioners as well as hospitals…
Changing Workflow Must Serve Patients and Practices
EHRs and Workflow COMMENTARY William A. Hyman Professor Emeritus, Biomedical Engineering Texas A&M University, w-hyman@tamu.edu Read other articles by this author A common complaint about…
Data Scientists Must Also Be Research Methodology Scientists
William Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair, OHSU Blog: Informatics Professor I had the chance recently to attend a conference in Singapore, Big Data and Analytics…
HIPAA Compliance & Meaningful Use Tech Tips (part 2)
COMMENTARY Mike Semel Semel Consulting HIPAA Compliance Tech Tips Part 2 (for the first of this 2-part series click here) More critical components of a HIPAA compliant…
HIPAA Compliance and Meaningful Use Tech Tips
HIPAA Compliance Tech Tips Part 1 of 2 COMMENTARY Mike Semel Semel Consulting HIPAA Compliance can be a mystery. It can be even more mysterious when…