ONC’s First Google+ Hangout on Health IT Challenges a Success
ONC and others discuss Interoperability, Health IT Challenges Yesterday the Office of the National Coordinator hosted it’s first ever ONC Google + Hangout. Led by…
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New Survey Shows Personal Use Impact on Cloud Computing Adoption
Survey Looks at Cloud Computing for 2013 Technology products and services company CDW has released its 2013 State of the Cloud Report. The report provides an assessment of…
WEDI Looks To Advance Progress of Health Information Exchange
WEDI offers free membership to government agencies The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) is a non-profit organization established in 1991 by Health and Human…
EHRs By Themselves Will Not Eliminate Paperwork
Paperwork in an EHR-enabled medical office Robert Rowley, MD Twitter: @RRowleyMD Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems come with the vision of eliminating paper in a…
Strengthening Your HIPAA Business Associate Chain
You aren’t alone in protecting patient data Electronic data has created the opportunity to lose thousands of patient records in just a few seconds. Enforcement…
ONC Will Host Open Town Hall on HIE Governance,Interoperability
Advancing Governance of Nationwide Health Information Exchange (HIE) The National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) is a public-private partnership that enables secure and interoperable nationwide health information exchange…
Bipartisan Policy Center to Hold Discussion on Patient Safety in Health IT
Tom Daschle to Lead Health IT Safety Policy Discussion The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) is a non-profit founded in 2007 by former Senate Majority Leaders…
New Brief Looks at Case Studies in Telehealth Adoption
Scaling Telehealth Programs: Lessons from Early Adopters The Commonwealth Fund is a non-profit organization established in 1918 to promote a high-performing health care system that…
HIPAA Doesn’t Require Data Encryption, But You Should
Data Encryption Saves Millions in HIPAA Breach Penalties Mike Semel, HIT Security Every time there is a HIPAA data breach penalty for a lost laptop or hard…