National Radio Day – August 20th
And My Interview with Eric Dishman August 20th of every year is designated to celebrating the invention of the radio and its importance to mass…
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FDA Warning on Medical Devices
Q&A with Mac McMillan Mac McMillan, chair of the HIMSS Privacy & Security Task Force and CEO of CynergisTek answers questions for us on the…
ONC Releases New Brief on Lessons Learned from the Beacon Communities
Beacon Communities Show Progress in Using Electronic Data for Quality Measurement The ONC’s Beacon Community Cooperative Agreement Program funds 17 communities across the U.S. The Beacon Community Program is…
The Business Model for Hacking Electronic Health Records
Security of Electronic Health Records I’ve been thinking lately about the security and privacy issues around patient information stored in electronic health records. No doubt…
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…
New Report Finds Health IT Tools Improve Patient Outcomes
AHRQ Presents Insights on Use of Health IT Tools in Ambulatory Settings The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is the lead Federal agency…
Retention versus Loyalty
Loyalty is about Maximizing Long Term Value COMMENTARY Chandresh Shah, Follow him @chandresh27 Visit his site: ChandreshShah.com email: chandresh@chandreshshah.com I have frequently talked about differentiators in…
STAT! Is Meaningful Use Trouble Under Your Network’s Skin?
Technology Tests for Meaningful Use Payments & HIPAA Compliance COMMENTARY Mike Semel Semel Consulting Every day doctors order labs, X-rays, MRI’s, ultrasounds, biopsies, endoscopies, and…
Big Bang Live is DOA without Proper Implementation
Big Bang Live COMENTARY Adam Nason Consultant, Medsys Group With Meaningful Use coming at hospitals like a meteor headed straight for Earth, some hospitals are…