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The International Cybercrime Prevention Act would create new criminal violations for those targeting hospitals, among other provisions.
A new study examined past vaccine uptake rates for flu and H1N1, and found that inoculation efforts fell short. The feds must help bridge that gap, "particularly for high-risk populations and communities of color," said former ONC chief David Blumenthal.
Innovation
There have been many frustrations with how the federal EHR incentive program was implemented this past decade, but those big government subsidies have enabled headway that might not have happened otherwise.
Google, the University of Chicago Medical Center and University of Chicago are listed as defendants in a class action suit that alleges they failed to properly de-identify sensitive patient medical data.
Electronic Health Records
In the last four months, the agency has lost about 40 senior staffers and the lack of experienced IT leadership puts the EHR modernization project at risk, 11 Congressional members argue.
Analytics
Obama-era officials David Blumenthal and Aneesh Chopra say yes.
Interoperability
The current CEO of Commonwealth fund also asks if hospitals and nursing homes are facing extinction.
Electronic Health Records
Senate, House propose bills for congressional oversight of VA’s Cerner project, would require reports of any major cost increase, loss of health data, delay or privacy breach.
Electronic Health Records
A rock star lineup of health IT pros including Karen DeSalvo, John Halamka weigh in on where the program went astray and suggest the direction that government and industry should steer towards.
The results of a nationwide survey of patients with complex medical needs released by The Commonwealth Fund, shows that the healthcare system is failing them.