Industry News
11/4/2004 - The Puerto Rico Department of Health will launch its new Health Smart Card ("Tarjeta Inteligente De Salud") project with two million microprocessor cards from Axalto to cover all of the Commonwealth's Medicaid recipients, making it the largest deployment of healthcare smart cards in North America to date.
11/3/2004 - Congress should provide appropriate direction and resources to help rural providers adopt electronic medical records technology over the next five years, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommends in a new report, according to Health Data Management.
11/3/2004 - Four members of the California state assembly want the state's Department of Social Services (DSS) to individually notify 1.4 million home care clients and their providers that the privacy of their personal information may have been compromised
due to a security breach at the University of CA-Berkeley in August, reports Computerworld.
10/21/2004 - The Southern Healthcare Administrative Regional Process (SHARP) Workgroup has looked at the more than 7,080 Privacy and 147 Transactions and Code Sets (TCS) rule complaints that have been filed up to June 2004 for HIPAA violations and it looks like there are plenty more to come, reports HealthcareITNews.
10/21/2004 - About 1.4 million computer files containing the personal data of home care patients may have been stolen from a computer system at the University of California, Berkeley, during a security breach on August 1.
10/20/2004 - According to top executives of health IT vendors and hospital CIOs, it will take an investment of $500 billion to $700 billion in healthcare IT systems during the next decade to meet President Bush's goal of using technology to decrease the nation's annual $1.7 trillion healthcare bill by about 20 percent, reports Federal Computer Week.
10/20/2004 - The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced today the 18th National HIPAA Implementation Roundtable conference call focusing on the HIPAA National Provider Identifier (NPI) Standard.
10/14/2004 - A computer chip that is implanted under the skin received approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) yesterday for use in helping doctors quickly access a patient's medical history.
