Editor's Note: Brittni Brown is a current Masters candidate at the University of Idaho.
There is no doubt that technology has made a significant impact in the medical world. Advancements range from those that improve the comfort of many patients to those that extend their lives. Perhaps one of the most interesting technologies that has emerged onto the scene is one meant to more efficiently address geographical links to illnesses: geographic information systems, or
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Senate Cybersecurity Bill: 5 Key Facts for Healthcare Organizations
On Tuesday, the Senate passed the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, a bill that intends to improve cybersecurity by getting companies to share information about their hacking threats with the federal government. Passed by a 74-21 vote, the bill includes a provision co-authored by Alexander and Senate health committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-Wash.) that would help protect against health care industry data breaches. A recent Accenture report predicts that healthcare data breaches will
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Sunquest Parent Company Acquires CliniSys and Atlas Medical
On Monday, Sunquest Information Systems Inc. announced that its parent company, Roper Technologies Inc., has acquired both CliniSys Group Ltd., one of the largest European suppliers of laboratory information management systems (LIMS) and Atlas Medical, a leading provider of clinical process and connectivity solutions in the U.S. Both acquisitions will expand Roper's healthcare IT capabilities to connect laboratories to the community on a global basis
"Our mission is to make healthcare smarter
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25 HIM Benchmarking Trends and Insights to Know
As the healthcare industry embarks upon a post ICD-10 world, the landscape of health information management (HIM) is evolving. So how are HIM professionals responding to today’s current challenges such as ICD-10, coder productivity, Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI), Computer Assisted Coding (CAC) and outsourcing? To gather these insights, ADVANCE for Health Information Professionals and himagine solutions, Inc. recently published their inaugural 2015 Benchmark Report: The Landscape of
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RWJ State of Health IT in 2015: Is It Time to Adjust Expectations?
Context and perspective matter.
And it’s often both context and perspective that are lacking from the daily snapshots we get of health information technology, meaningful use, interoperability and the progress we are either making or not making, depending on your perspective.
So I welcome a report like the one the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) released last month on the state of health IT circa 2015 in these United States. Subtitled “Transition to a Post-HITECH World,” the
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AMA, MedStar Health Partner to Drive Improvements in EHR Usability
In an effort to promote transparency around how EHRs are designed and user-tested, and drive improvements in clinician support and patient safety, the American Medical Association (AMA) and MedStar Health’s National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare have developed a comparative EHR User-Centered Design Evaluation Framework that shows a lack of focus among regulators and industry on user-centered design and usability testing.
EHR User-Centered Design Evaluation Framework Overview
The
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Dell’s Mandi Bishop Talks Challenges of Data Analytics in Healthcare
Data analytics promises to be the new darling of healthcare industry as providers move toward value-based methods of care. But is healthcare really ready to handle all the new data (both structured and unstructured) headed its way? How can one be sure that data analytics will produce an accurate picture of how to improve performance and efficiency?
We asked Dell’s Mandi (Phillips) Bishop, Lead for Health Plan Innovation Analytics, what are the considerations providers need to make when it
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Applying Airbnb Data Principles to Health IT Interoperability
When we look outside the walls of traditional medicine, we can find innovative solutions that when applied appropriately, can create unforeseen benefits. Stuart Kauffmann, an evolutionary biologist and complexity systems researcher, proposed a theory where biological organisms can morph into more complex systems that expend less energy. The idea of increasing the complexity to gain some increased benefit has been applied to areas outside living organisms with some success.
Airbnb disrupted
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Sen. Alexander: Patients Need a “Breakthrough” on Medical Devices
U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today said that America’s patients need a “breakthrough” in the medical device industry after touring Smith & Nephew, a medical device company in Memphis, Tennessee.
“We hear a lot about the negative effects of the medical device tax, but what I’m hearing more from the medical device community is about the negative effects of regulatory burdens on doctors and patients,” said Alexander, chairman of the Senate health committee. “We’ve had a
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Empower Patients: Give Them Better Data!
Editor's Note: William Rusnak, MD (@RusnakMD) is a resident radiologist, writer, and financial investor. He writes about topics such as healthcare technology, biotechnology, business, and entrepreneurship.
Imagine that you are diagnosed with serious illness. Wait. Maybe that is a little strong. Sadly, however, there really is no good way to start this conversation. In any case, how do you perform your medical research? If you're like most people -- 77% to be specific -- you run straight to Dr.
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