AHRQ Study Shows EHRs Identify Diagnostic Errors

05/24/2013 - A study supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) revealed that most diagnostic errors occur with common ailments, and are related to process break-downs in the patient-practitioner clinical encounter.

CDC Requests new DOL Occupation Code

05/24/2013 - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has requested that the Department of Labor establish a standard occupation code for public health informaticians (PHI) that would provide a uniform, national classification for PHI professionals.

CLIA and the Exchange of Lab Results Across States

05/24/2013 - Legislation in the New York State Senate, Senator Toby Ann Stavisky’s Senate Bill 634A (S634A), revolves around the aged Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) and transitioning into health information exchanges with relation to lab results.

Voice IT could improve diabetes safety

05/24/2013

Rural health IT grants get look over

05/24/2013

An information collection request for the Rural Health Information Technology Network Development Program, which aims to financially support health IT adoption in rural or underserved areas, has been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget for review.

Threat matrix: Malware and hacking pose dangers to medical devices

05/24/2013

The scene from the Showtime series Homeland is tough to watch: The Vice President of the United States, dying slowly as his heart beats faster. His pacemaker – a delicate implanted device, accessed and altered from some distant computer by a terrorist who'd learned its serial number – is going haywire.

It could happen, said Tim Zoph, CIO of Chicago's Northwestern Memorial Hospital, speaking at the Healthcare IT News/HIMSS Media Privacy & Security Forum this past December.

AHA Responds to Senators’ Call for Halting Meaningful Use

05/24/2013
The American Hospital Association acknowledges the Meaningful Use shortcomings, but makes a case for continuing it

Q&A with Level 3 Communications’ Executive

05/22/2013
Karl Strohmeyer discusses the many challenges facing healthcare IT leaders today

Consortium Releases Guidance on Managing Cybersecurity

05/17/2013
HITRUST has issued guidance on how organizations can use its common security framework to prevent, detect and manage cybersecurity attacks

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