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EHR Implementation: How Common Blunders Can Alienate Your Patients

Pamela Lewis Dolan | amednews.com | September 24, 2012

Many snafus associated with EHR implementation have little to do with the technology but rather how it is prepared before adoption and ultimately used. Read More »

EHR Replacement Gone Wrong: Who Owns Patient Data?

Jennifer Bresnick | EHR Intelligence | July 23, 2013

What do you do when an EHR contract ends, but the vendor won’t let you access your patients’ data until after a lengthy court battle over a missing bill?  Does a vendor have the right to withhold records for any reason, even if the information is stored in a proprietary format? Read More »

EHR Transition Causes Its Own Headaches

Pamela Lewis Dolan | amednews.com | August 5, 2013

Technology contracts often favor the vendor. Medical practices should negotiate the most agreeable terms possible, especially regarding termination, to make for a clean break. Read More »

Epic In 2013 = AOL In 1999?

Matt Mattox | Axial Exchange | February 19, 2013

This is a good time to be a big EHR company. Health systems are willing to pay more than $100 million to have a new electronic health record system installed. The New York Times even fawned over the innovative prowess of Epic, which is arguably the most powerful EHR company on the planet. Read More »

Event Report: BRISSKit Community Day And Hack Event

Kirsty Pitkin | BRISSKit | November 2, 2012

The BRISSKit Community Day brought together project partners, interested biomedical research groups, developers and domain experts to learn about the BRISSKit toolkit: a national shared service designed to host, implement and deploy biomedical research database applications that support the management and integration of tissue samples with clinical data and electronic patient records. Read More »

Facilitating Interoperability

Brian Klepper | Health Affairs Blog | October 18, 2013

A Health Affairs report on health information interoperability by staffers of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) provides a good enough summary of the situation. But it also is not news, and falls under the Bob Dylan Rule: You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. [...] Read More »

FDA Clears IND For First Clinical Trial Protocol Developed Using Crowdsourcing

Press Release | Transparency Life Sciences (TLS) | December 18, 2012

Transparency Life Sciences, LLC (TLS), the world's first drug development company based on open innovation, today announced that its Investigational New Drug Application (IND) to assess lisinopril as an adjunctive therapy for multiple sclerosis (MS) has been cleared by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Read More »

Feds' Top Entrepreneur Shaking Data From Government's File Cabinets

Tom Watkins | CNN | September 23, 2012

Todd Park's job is to unleash the power of innovation inside the oh-so change-resistant walls of government, and he appears to love it. Read More »

First Step To Successful EHR Use Is Evaluating Paper Workflow

Jennifer Bresnick | EHR Intelligence | September 3, 2013

Every good cook knows that a finished meal is only as good as the ingredients you start with, and the same adage holds true for EHR implementation, a messy recipe if ever there was one. Read More »

Five Tech Trends Affecting Healthcare IT Today, and Tomorrow

Technology is evolving faster than ever before, and shows no sign of slowing down. Digital innovation has enhanced the way we operate in almost every aspect of modern life, but in the healthcare industry, technology is not only changing lives, it's saving them too. Outlined below are five technology trends that are taking hold of the healthcare IT industry today, and what developments we can expect to see over the course of 2019 and beyond.

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For A Glimpse At What’s Next In Health Wearables, Check Out One Design Firm’s Idea For Epileptics

Deanna Pogorelc | MedCity News | March 19, 2014

Health monitoring devices of the future will not just be biometric tracking devices or journaling apps or detection and alerting systems, but all of the above as part of one comprehensive solution.

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Getting a slice of PHI

Benjamin Harris | Government Health IT | July 15, 2013

There is a communicative aspect to medicine that many tend to gloss over. The very heart of medicine is having one person sit down and talk about themselves to another. Read More »

Give Us Our Damn Lab Results!!

Alice Leiter and Devon McGraw | The Health Care Blog | September 15, 2013

Two years ago, the Department of Health and Human Services released proposed regulations that would allow patients to obtain their clinical lab test results directly from the lab, rather than having to wait to receive the results from their health care provider.  CDT and other consumer groups enthusiastically supported this proposed rule at the time of its release. Read More »

Giving Patients A Role In Data Exchange

Joseph Goedert | HealthData Management | July 10, 2013

A pilot program at the University of Texas at Austin seeks to find the right processes for enabling patients to track who requests and receives their protected health information. Read More »

Glaucoma Clinics Run On Moorfields App

Lis Evenstad | eHealth Insider | April 18, 2013

Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has developed an app to run virtual glaucoma clinics. Read More »