Best of MedCitizens: Top HIT implications of reform

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• Top 10 IT implications of healthcare reform. “I believe that Accountable Care Organizations will be the ideal place to host several of these innovations including bundled payments, the medical home, and an increased focus on wellness.”
• FDA staffers dumped for being smarter than the boss? “The abrupt removals were made to make room for younger people closer to Martino’s own age, the trade journal reports. ‘She’s uncomfortable with people who know more than she does,’ a source told FDA Webview.”
• Midei, St. Joseph Medical Center stent case ‘extreme.‘ “Most doctors don’t act this way, and medical device companies are not usually looking to work with doctors who get in trouble working with their devices.”
• Wikileaks in the Electronic Medical Record Era. “No matter what people think of Wikileaks disclosure of approximately 250,000 classified diplomatic cables to the Internet yesterday with the help of the New York Times, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, and Le Monde, the implications to electronic healthcare information security are significant.”