The American College of Physicians is nervous about where HHS is headed with the criteria for meaningful use of electronic health records.
The organization wrote a letter to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology addressing “what has been released for Stage 2 and what we have been told to expect for Stage 3” in the federal EHR meaningful-use program.
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A large hospital consortium and two health systems have launched a "big data" pilot project to automatically extract claims and clinical data from their information technology systems.
UHC, the Chicago-based University HealthSystem Consortium of 118 academic medical centers and nearly 300 affiliated hospitals, is collaborating with NYU Langone Medical Center in New York and the Cleveland Clinic on the project.
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A substantial number of Americans are worried about the security of their medical information.
Nearly 1 in 8 people have withheld information about themselves from a healthcare provider due to concerns about security and privacy, according to a study published online by the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
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Jain
When Dr. Anil Jain was an undergraduate in biomedical engineering at Northwestern University, he got a glimpse of his future in medical informatics.
“In many ways, cloud computing is a reminder back to when I was in engineering school,” Jain says. He recalls that students were given access to a slice of the school's mainframe computer. “I'd get to use a supercomputing environment without having to pay for it.”
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