OpenNotes, once an academic experiment to see if physicians would accept patients viewing encounter notes and if patients could decipher the medicalese, is getting ready to scale, thanks to a large donation.
Even as the chorus grows to delay or even scrap Stage 3 of the Meaningful Use EHR incentive program amid accusations of "information blocking," HHS still backs interoperability efforts.
As technology advances, AI-powered tools will increasingly reduce the administrative burdens on healthcare providers.
The hope is that this NIH-funded data provenance project will help standardize and reconcile inconsistencies so clinicians have better data to bring to the bedside and run through clinical decision support systems.
The Food and Drug Administration is making as much as $1 million in grant funding available for mining a large database of electronic health records to conduct postmarket surveillance of drug safety. The FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) will award a one-year grant by summer to a single bidder to develop “new analytic […]
There’s a panoply of alternative funding streams for healthcare startups out there — fledgling companies are seeking out avenues like prepaid revenue models, grant funding in lieu of venture capital, and the ever-popular crowdfunding approach. The outcomes can be a mixed bag, however, said a panel of speakers at MedCity News’ CONVERGE conference in Philadelphia today. Many corporations […]