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Every Tuesday, the NHIN Direct Implementation Group holds a teleconference to update the entire team on the progress of the technical workgroups. This week, we discussed the completed addressing specification.
The National Cancer Institute announced it will offer a specialized, lightweight electronic health record for cancer patients. Healthcare organizations can and often do customize the EHRs they implement to suit their clinicians' workflow and to capture data that they deem relevant. But there's a need for further EHR customization for specialties, such as behavioral health, and diseases.
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a summary report of the public forum on the Initiative on the Future of Nursing, which was held in October 2009. IOM and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation are collaborating on the three public forums regarding this initiative. There were a number of takeaways.
A new wireless technology is being touted as the missing link needed to join patients, providers and the health IT that promises to transform healthcare across the globe.
In a recent overview of how new HIT is rapidly changing the patient/doctor relationship, Scientific American takes the time to note some of the potential downsides of the transition.
Stephanie Clifford's story in the New York Times tells how the massive, under-the-radar data mining industry just hammered the one of the last nails into the coffin of online "privacy". In case you are naive enough to imagine you have any privacy at all online - this story proves you have none.
As the American Hospital Association (AHA) gears up for its annual conference next week in Washington, the association has released a series of papers outlining its 2010 priorities. Health IT was identified as a top priority.
As the American Hospital Association (AHA) gears up for its annual conference next week in Washington, the association has released a series of papers outlining its 2010 priorities. Health IT was identified as a top priority.
Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy (D-RI) and Congressman Tim Murphy (R-PA) introduced the Health Information Technology Extension for Behavioral Health Services Act of 2010 late last week.
Federal officials are asking the public to plug into upcoming discussions of Meaningful Use definitions, but the request comes at a time when it’s still not clear how much the general public actually knows about the subject of HIT.