Patil: Well-built health IT should make docs, patients like Superman
To D.J. Patil, those without well-designed health IT systems might as well be Superman in the face of Kryptonite.
To D.J. Patil, those without well-designed health IT systems might as well be Superman in the face of Kryptonite.
Health IT obviously should be part of public health surveillance efforts because epidemiology relies so heavily on data.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
The remaining uninsured are the may be the toughest to enroll.
Two things were missing from previous attempts by the Institute of Medicine to shine light on the epidemic of medical harm in U.S. healthcare: diagnostic error and a patient-centered approach to fixing the many problems.
The longest-tenured senior official in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology will step down Oct. 9.
The problem may have been due to a miscommunication between whoever green-lighted a blog post announcing the complaint page last Friday and whoever was responsible for getting the actual page online.
Attendees from MedCity ENGAGE gave us marching orders: explore these 5 patient engagement solutions. Now we'll do just that.
Everyone's talking patient empowerment, patient safety and patient engagement, but often, patients themselves are an afterthought.
It's not easy for those wishing to report problems with health IT systems.
Research from The Brookings Institution shows another way to size up digital health investment -- by looking at the proportion of VC money in metropolitan areas going to digital health.
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
Physicians, hospitals and healthcare systems often are contractually barred from reporting on software glitches and other shortfalls in their EHRs that could lead to harmful or fatal medical errors, according to a newly published investigation.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has no plans to curtail use of enterprise social network Yammer, despite a scathing report detailing serious security risks associated with that platform at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Managing director Bijan Salehizadeh points out that you can't overestimate the rate of adoption in healthcare.
Patient visits to ambulatory surgery centers would be exempt from Meaningful Use reporting — and related Medicare penalties — for the physicians and other "elgibile professionals" who see them starting next year, under legislation that unanimously passed the Senate this week.
With a mere 461 days until the 2016 election, the partisan divide is as acute as ever, but here's a hopeful sign that Washington occasionally works: Dr. Karen DeSalvo will get a hearing this week on her nomination to be assistant secretary for health in the Department of Health and Human Services.