IT Everything blogger Joseph Conn is on vacation through Wednesday, Jan. 4. For the latest in health information technology news, visit the Healthcare IT section of modernhealthcare.com.
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Each time I find myself standing at the airport in my stocking feet, simultaneously trying to loop my belt, pocket my car keys, re-encase my laptop and step into my shoes while walking sideways as my plastic tubs bump down the roll line, my soul cries softly, "I want my country back."
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Somehow, I've been elected president of the United States, and it's my first day in office.
Keeping a campaign pledge to make my administration the most transparent in U.S. history, I issue an executive order requiring every department head in the executive branch to text me their cellphone number.
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Three-eighty. Three-eighty. Do I hear four hundred?
With 2011 winding down, there are now 380 major data breaches involving 500 or more patients' records listed on the "wall of shame" website kept by HHS' Office for Civil Rights.
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Healthcare is an increasingly global affair.
There's nothing new or controversial about that, but I've compiled a string of data points that buttresses the idea. As globalization spreads, U.S. providers will have a significant role to play in expanding the use of healthcare information technology abroad and will have much to learn from their foreign peers.
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IT Everything blogger Joseph Conn is on vacation through Wednesday, Dec. 14. For the latest in health information technology news, visit the Healthcare IT section of modernhealthcare.com.
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I had a chance to speak with Dr. David Mendelson during the Radiological Society of North America show in Chicago this week. A project he mentioned provided another data point in what I've been seeing as a trend—restoring some measure of control to patients over the sharing of their healthcare information.
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