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Information technology

Rural hospitals are facing down connectivity obstacles as they deploy telemedicine | Healthcare IT News

Rural healthcare providers put telemedicine at the top of their lists of priorities for their organizations, followed by security.

Medical devices

CMS delays start of CDS for diagnostic imaging until 2020 | Health Data Management

The CMS is delaying the start of a program that would require physicians to apply "appropriate use" criteria when ordering certain advanced diagnostic imaging tests. The delay gives the industry time to better understand the program and figure out workflow changes.

Safety, quality and clinical practice

Cancer drugs can make surviving cells more aggressive, but study finds a potential fix | Stat News

Cancer treatment can make cancer progress, according to a new study, which shows that because cancer therapy can create "tumor cell debris," it can actually stimulate further tumor growth.

Tens of thousands of children dying from fake drugs, new report shows | Newsweek

The WHO report shows that one in 10 medicines in poor countries are fake. The majority of those drugs are for malaria and bacterial infections.

In other news

5 ways congressional tax legislation would transform healthcare | NPR

If the individual mandate were dropped, 13 million fewer people would have insurance over the next decade, and premiums would increase by 10% more each year than they otherwise would. The Orphan Drug Credit would also be eliminated or scaled back, decreasing the likelihood that pharmaceuticals will develop treatments for rare conditions.