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IT Infrastructure
By HIMSS TV | 02:51 pm | December 27, 2018
Turkey has made tremendous strides in digitizing healthcare and touts more than 160 hospitals validated at Stage 6 of EMRAM. HIMSS TV spoke with Aniventi co-founder Nejat Unsal about how his company is supporting the country’s ongoing mission.
By Diana Manos | 09:12 am | December 27, 2018
The Northeast Indiana Innovation Center plans to use the funding to provide infrastructure and resources to entrepreneurs and companies with innovative Internet of Things ideas.
By Leontina Postelnicu | 10:49 am | December 24, 2018
Thousands of women in England were “warned unnecessarily” that they did not receive an invitation to a final routine breast screening in an incident believed to have been caused by an IT error, according to an independent review released this month.
By Tom Sullivan | 01:22 pm | December 20, 2018
Players can walk through Philadelphia in the 1918 flu pandemic and try not to die.
By Diana Manos | 11:00 am | December 19, 2018
The oncologist and health IT veteran will take the highest non-political position at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Strategic Planning
By HIMSS TV | 03:50 pm | December 17, 2018
Chair Global Board of Directors, HIMSS, Dr. Manish Kohli discusses global struggles with quality, access and cost of care and how China has stepped up to those challenges with remarkable speed and level of ambition.
HIE
By Mike Miliard | 02:49 pm | December 17, 2018
With ONC's final TEFCA rule expected soon, one clinician explains how the expansion and user-friendly data exchange is ushering in a new era of care for providers and patients.  
By Diana Manos | 03:24 pm | December 14, 2018
The informatics group says best practices for sharing of research data will boost the usefulness  of NIH investments.
Blockchain
By Diana Manos | 12:48 pm | December 14, 2018
European Union Blockchain Observatory & Forum, says that, while there are tensions and some uncertainty about how to protect data and use blockchain under GDPR, there are still ways to accomplish it.
Compliance
By Mike Miliard | 05:01 pm | December 11, 2018
Two healthcare leaders from Germany offer best practices for assessing privacy and security posture – not just for EU legal requirements, but because it's the right thing to do.