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Targeting adverse events | Effort aims to ensure health IT causing no harm
By Joseph Conn | July 06, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
The healthcare industry, with the federal government at the helm, is trying to find whether health information technology systems are doing patients serious harm, and if so, to what extent.
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Health IT safety still a work in progress, ONC leaders say
By Joseph Conn | June 27, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Federal plans to regulate the safety of health information technology remain a work in progress, but tools are available now to engage patients in using health IT for their own benefit, two federal health IT leaders told a gathering of physician informaticists Wednesday.
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HHS to develop data-sharing plan for outcomes research
By Maureen McKinney | June 05, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Two HHS agencies announced they are partnering with one another to develop an interoperable data infrastructure to support patient-centered outcomes research.
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Feds move nearer to patient-safety framework for health IT
By Joseph Conn | May 30, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Now that a majority of healthcare providers have installed electronic health-record systems, the federal government is inching closer to adopting a regulatory and patient-safety framework for computerized healthcare devices.
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Former ONC chief Kolodner named CMO at telehealth company ViTel Net
By Joseph Conn | May 06, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Veteran physician informaticist Dr. Robert Kolodner, the former head of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at HHS, has been named VP and chief medical officer at ViTel Net, McLean, Va., a provider of telehealth software and services, the company has announced.
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Docs' EHR shortcuts are not fraud: AMA chairman
By Joseph Conn | May 03, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Dr. Steven Stack, American Medical Association board chairman, gave a spirited defense of physicians and a sharp, but balanced critique of electronic health-record systems at a federal “listening” session Friday on EHRs and their potential for use in billing fraud.
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Systems shut down | ONC revokes firm's EHR certifications
By Joe Carlson | April 27, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
For the first time, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at HHS revoked certifications for electronic health-record systems, raising troubling questions about how physicians and hospitals should react if the government nixes a system they are already...
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ONC revokes firm's EHR certifications
By Joe Carlson | April 25, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
For the first time, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at HHS has revoked certifications for two electronic health-record systems, raising troubling questions about how physicians and hospitals should react if the government nixes a system they're already using.
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HHS, FCC form patient-safety advisory work group
By Joseph Conn | April 19, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
HHS and the Federal Communications Commission have formed a joint advisory panel to improve patient safety and promote innovation in health information technology.
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Session to focus on EHR-billing controversy
By Joseph Conn | April 18, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The controversy over the appropriate use of health information technology systems to streamline workflow while not fraudulently increasing healthcare claims will get a public airing early next month.
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