Does Google Glass Have a Place in the Operating Room?
Hospitals are finding innovative ways of adapting the head-mounted computer to healthcare environments.Read more in the full article.read more
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Do We Need More or Less Healthcare IT Regulation and Legislation?
Just as I clarified last week in my post about Certification, the answer to the question “do we need more or less healthcare IT regulation and legislation” is that we need the right amount of the right...
View ArticleData Attacks On Healthcare Flying High
In the realm of privacy and security, heeding snooping employees and encrypting portable devices isn't enough in healthcare these days. Criminal attacks on hospitals are on a huge upward trend, with a...
View ArticleComputer Viruses Are "Rampant" On Medical Devices In Hospitals
A meeting of government officials reveals that medical equipment is becoming riddled with malware.Read more in the full article.read more
View ArticleCIOs Might Be Ready On Time For ICD-10 Deadline Next Year, But Will The...
John D. Halamka, chief information officer of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and co-chair of the HIT Standards Committee doesn't think enough healthcare organizations will be ready for ICD-10...
View ArticleCIO Halamka Highlights 5 Health IT Challenges In Year Ahead
One question that healthcare CIOs are asked time and time again to answer is: What keeps you up at night? Answers to the question vary depending on the type of organization the CIO works for and the...
View ArticleCan An Open Source Electronic Health Record Ever Be Ready For Prime-Time?
In October, the Open Source Health Record Agent (OSEHRA) will hold its first summit, bringing together the government and open source developers, two radically different camps united in their goal to...
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Blockchain in Healthcare Today Debuts First Ensemble of Articles for...
Partners in Digital Health March 27, 2018Original URLThe online peer review journal, Blockchain in Healthcare Today (BHTY), has published its first articles to augment the industry's knowledge-base....
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athenahealth’s CEO Jonathan Bush to Headline HIMSS16 Views from the Top With...
athenahealth February 25, 2016Original URLathenahealth, Inc....today announced that Jonathan Bush, athenahealth CEO, and Dr. John Halamka, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) CIO, will...
View ArticleAs Funding Dries Up, ONC Reorganizes, Consolidates Offices
National Coordinator for Health IT Karen DeSalvo, in an internal memo sent to ONC staffers and emailed to FierceHealthIT late Friday, announced a slew of organizational changes at the agency. The...
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Are jackalopes and information blocking similar?
Looking to dupe urbanite travelers, bartenders and bar owners in rural Western taverns sometimes fasten antelope horns to the head of a large jackrabbit. They then mount the whole thing, hang it over...
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An interoperability update: Do we need more carrots and sticks?
Earlier this year, the ONC released the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA), which responds to a mandate included in 2016’s 21st Century Cures Act and lays out principles, terms and...
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An EHR Implementation of The Checklist Manifesto
Boston Physician Atul Gawande wrote The Checklist Manifesto in 2009 stressing that medicine should adopt “pilot’s checklists” to ensure that operating room teams are “ready for takeoff” before a...
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An Alternative Proposal for Certification
Some have suggested that my comments over the past few months about the Meaningful Use program, MACRA/MIPS, and Certification imply that we should just give up - throw out the baby with the bath water....
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OSEHRA 2012 Open Source EHR Summit Opens to Capacity Audience - Live Blog
The 1st Annual Open Source EHR Summit & Workshop opened to a capacity audience of nearly 400 participants today at the Gaylord National Conference center at National Harbor in Maryland today This...
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