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HHS Webcast & Videos on HealthCare.Gov
A wide range of free, online videos and webcasts by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) are posted on the HealthCare.Gov web site. They cover such topics as health care legislation, health care policy, consumer health issues, changes to Medicare, and much more. See list of official HHS Video Channels
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HHS, VA Go Granular In Info Exchange Demo
HHS and the U.S. Veterans Affairs Department have demonstrated the successful use of technology to persistently enforce federal patient consent requirements at the "granular" data element level, HHS announced. Read More »
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HHS’ Cyber Threat Center Comes Out of Beta Soon
The Health and Human Services Department’s nascent cybersecurity center will soon reach initial operating capability to help share threat information with a sector constantly under attack and often short of cyber personnel of its own. Based on the Homeland Security Department's National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center, the Healthcare Cybersecurity Communications and Integration Center will share health-care specific threats information with other agencies and the private sector...
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Hiding Your Research Behind A Paywall Is Immoral
As a scientist your job is to bring new knowledge into the world. Hiding it behind a journal's paywall is unacceptable Read More »
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HIE 'Rules Of Road': What's Next?
Supporters of a recent decision by federal regulators to back away from issuing voluntary "rules of the road" for secure health information exchange say the move makes sense [...]. But some others argue that establishing HIE benchmarks, especially for privacy and security, is advisable now to help build public trust. Read More »
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HIE Critical To Care Continuity In Natural Disasters
As some hospitals in the New York metropolitan area were forced to evacuate patients and send them to nearby facilities in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, health information exchange proved to be a vital tool in making those transitions as smooth as possible. Read More »
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HIE, EHR Familiarity Grows, But Provider Frustrations Remain
A newly-released survey by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago shows that while nearly all physicians have heard of the EHR Incentive Program, health information exchange, and other electronic data initiatives, frustration among participants remains high. Read More »
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HIE, Interoperability Still Center Stage
As Farzad Mostashari, MD, prepares to leave the ONC, his office and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are looking to the future and plotting long-term information exchange and interoperability policy strategies. Read More »
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HIEs Craft Strategies For Non-Targeted Query
In the process of creating health information exchange recommendations, the Health IT Policy Committee’s Privacy & Security Tiger Team is considering practices that have been developed for a critical care coordination practice: non-targeted query. Read More »
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HIEs: Help in Disasters?
How big of a role did health information exchanges play in providing access to records during Superstorm Sandy, and what lessons can be learned? Federal officials will address these questions, says HIE expert Lee Stevens. Read More »
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High Cost Doesn't Equal Better Care
Almost 100,00 Americans die and about 1 million are injured each year as result of medical failures, reported the Institute of Medicine in 2000. In fact, 30 percent to 40 percent of American health care is wasted due to overuse, underuse, misuse and other factors. And in too many cases, the costs for the new procedures aren't justified. However, the system isn't designed to control costs. Third parties are paying for the procedures.
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High impact EMBO Molecular Medicine to Publish Under Open Access Model
EMBO Molecular Medicine, as of March 2012, joins the Wiley Open Access publishing program. Articles in the journal are open access and free to view, download and share for non-commercial use. Read More »
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High Performance Computing – Is HPC Now an Enterprise Proposition?
High performance computing (HPC) has long been the preserve of academic institutions and highly specialised industries needing to run data hungry applications that carry out advanced analytics and rapid simulations....But, while HPC is used by top research groups studying the intricacies of the universe or cracking the genetic code that make us, what will the main benefit of HPC be to the enterprise? Read More »
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High Ranking Military Health System Folks May Seek VA CIO Job
I’m picking up medium strength signals that at least one high ranking Military Health System official has her eyes on the Veterans Affairs Department Chief Information Officer job that current VA CIO Roger Baker plans to vacate real soon. I also hear that a former top MHS official known for relentless ambition also plans to campaign for the VA CIO slot. Read More »
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High Turnover of EHR Vendors According to KLAS Report
The game is still afoot for a swarm of electronic health-record system developers—in particular those that don't have the best-known brands, according to the latest report from KLAS Enterprises on the ambulatory EHR market. Read More »
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