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FHIR update addresses workflow

Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources, the 3-year-old data exchange framework, has been updated to enhance clinical decisions and quality measures.
From powering cities to empowering healthcare providers

More than a third of the respondents to this year's Construction & Design Survey are working on building renovation and conversion projects.
Consumers fueling outpatient construction

The architects and construction companies who make their living designing and building healthcare facilities are bullish in their outlook on healthcare construction, despite the uncertainty surrounding healthcare policy in Washington, D.C.
Obamacare marketplace still troubled by inconsistencies: HHS inspector general

The CMS' inability to properly manage eligibility checks on Obamacare insurance marketplace enrollees remains a problem more than three years after the market's balky rollout, according to a federal watchdog.
GAO details weaknesses in federal push to share patient data

A federal watchdog group said HHS isn't doing enough to measure how much patients use their medical records.
Plans readied for boosting IT's role in public health reporting

The Zika virus' spread to the United States motivated a federal initiative to better use health information technology in public health reporting. But an HHS task force is developing recommendations on health IT best practices for public health that will also address other disease outbreaks.
MH Exclusive: Price breaks public silence on health IT policy

HHS Secretary Dr. Tom Price missed two high-profile opportunities to take a stand on health information technology policy Tuesday, but used a third communication to assure that the federal government will continue to push health IT interoperability.
Mumbai-based conglomerate acquires HCI Group

The information technology arm of the Mahindra Group, a multibillion-dollar Mumbai-based conglomerate, has purchased the HCI Group to expand its health IT consulting operations.
NYC hospital faces suit over charges for medical records

New York Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center charged a 71-year-old patient $2,694 for the release of her electronic health records, according to her lawyer.
Vital Signs: Lieber reflects at his last HIMSS show

Looking back, one thing that continued to amaze H. Stephen Lieber has been the steady influx of innovators trying their hand at health information technology.
Lawsuit alleges patient was charged $2,694 for release of medical records

Manhattan lawyer Lowell Sidney got a shock when the mail delivered a weighty package containing 1,758 pages of his 71-year-old client's medical records with a bill for $2,693.68, including shipping and handling.
Questions and uncertainty cloud normally sunny HIMSS

Members of nearly every corner of the healthcare sector all seemed to share the same uncertainty during this year's Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society convention.
Uncertainty surrounds nation's largest health IT gathering

Members of nearly every corner of the healthcare sector all seemed to share the same uncertainty during this year's Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society convention.
Vital Signs: Athenahealth CEO Bush likes the hand he's been dealt in the high-stakes interoperability game

Jonathan Bush likes where his company is in the nationwide struggle to make health IT systems more open to the exchange of patient information. Being a native web-developer gives Athena a leg up.
Former ONC privacy chief moves to Omada Health

Lucia Savage, the former and recently resigned chief privacy officer at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at HHS, has been named chief privacy and regulatory officer at Omada Health.