Under Obamacare program, doctor visits would become data points
Article in Washington Post April 23, 2013 A new nonprofit is putting millions of Obamacare dollars towards an effort to turn routine doctor visits into a treasure trove of data on what medical treatments work best. The Affordable Care Act created the Patient Centered Research Outcomes Institute (PCORI) to support comparative effectiveness research, studies that [...]
Read moreCleveland Clinic app helps connect patients, doctors, trials
Posted on MibiHealthNews April 15, 2013 Cleveland Clinic has built an app to help both physicians and patients find cancer clinical trials. The app, available for free from the iOS AppStore and the Google Play store, allows users to search the Cleveland Clinic’s the 130 active clinical trials by disease, phase, hospital location, or doctor. [...]
Read moreHIMSS: Should Healthcare Be More Like Airline Industry?
From March 5, 2013 article on InformationWeek Healthcare Such a comparison says not only that the healthcare industry must change, but also that those changes will be dramatic and gut wrenching. The boldest thing I heard at my first day at HIMSS 13, the big healthcare IT event this week in New Orleans, was that [...]
Read moreTranscription Outsourcing Leads to Woman’s Death, $140M Settlement
The family of Sharon Juno, 59 at the time of her death, was awarded the largest civil wrongful death judgment in Baldwin County’s history. A Baldwin County, Alabama, jury returned the $140 million dollar settlement to Sharon Juno’s family following her death from an insulin overdose in 2008, said Fox10TV. Juno, a life-long diabetic who [...]
Read moreHIPAA Changes Could Create New Bureaucratic Burdens
From January 23, 2013 article by Michelle McNickle, Associate Editor of InformationWeek Healthcare Modifications to HIPAA may take the focus off patients and pile on administrative work. Changes coming to the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rule mean added administrative work, and they could mean additional reporting, said Lisa Sotto, head of Hunton & Williams’ global [...]
Read moreWhen it comes to patient records, doctors guilty of the old copy-paste
January 10, 2013 article on CNET.com by Elizabeth Armstrong Moore A new study finds the majority of doctors copying potentially out-of-date information from previous notes and other documents and pasting them into patient progress reports. Ah, the old copy/paste. Such a handy keyboard shortcut for such a wide range of applications. But would you want [...]
Read moreHIMSS Asks Congress for Patient Identity System–Again
Health Information Management and Systems Society believes up to 14% of medical records have wrong, potentially dangerous info due to misidentification. New system might include biometrics. From InformationWeek Healthcare article, September 26, 2012 For the second year in a row, the Health Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS) has urged Congress to support the establishment [...]
Read moreAnother Big Fine After a Small Breach
HIPAA Investigation Leads to Sanctions From post on GovInfo Security web site For the second time in three months, federal authorities have issued a hefty financial penalty stemming from a HIPAA compliance investigation after a relatively small breach. The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights has entered a settlement with Massachusetts [...]
Read more10 Healthcare IT Predictions
By Scott Mace, for HealthLeaders Media, September 4, 2012 In honor of National Health IT Week next week, here are my top 10 predictions for healthcare IT for the next 12 months—none of them involving Meaningful Use or ICD-10! Patients ask, where’s my data?Patients will organize a single-day national event called Where’s My Medical Data, [...]
Read moreDamage from Healthcare Data Breaches Spreading
From article posted on HealthLeaders Media web site. Almost twice as many people were affected by healthcare data breaches in 2011 as in 2010, according to a report released on Wednesday. The total number of breaches dropped by 32% to 145 but the number of people affected by those breaches doubled to 10.8 million. The [...]
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