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01/21/2019

How HIEs can enable public health reporting when EHRs fall short

Healthcare’s Holy Grail of widespread information sharing holds considerable promise as well as daunting challenges and public health reporting is

01/19/2019

GAO's latest report on patient matching: It's still not easy

The whole point of electronic health records is to facilitate the sharing of patient data, but that is still difficult,

12/12/2018

European perspective: How hospitals should be approaching GDPR compliance

Since the European Union enacted its General Data Protection Regulation law this past May, it’s probable that many healthcare organizations

12/07/2018

ONC names winners of Certified Health IT Product List challenge

Three winners and one honorable mention have been announced in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’’s Certified

10/03/2018

Pew says consumers prefer biometrics for patient matching, but hospitals have concerns

Pew Charitable Trusts this week published a report on patient matching, examining it as a key challenge for healthcare's overall

09/20/2018

Trump's tariff threats on China could hit hospital IT shops

President Trump on Wednesday threatened to add new import taxes on an additional $257 billion of Chinese goods to the

08/24/2018

VA Cerner EHR Project CHIO Genevieve Morris resigns

Genevieve Morris, chief health information officer of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ Office of Electronic Health Record Modernization stepped

07/20/2018

Rural hospitals need more funding for broadband, telehealth, AHA says

The American Hospital Association said rural healthcare entities need more federal funding for technological infrastructure as basic as broadband connectivity,

07/10/2018

Trump's Chinese tariffs threaten to cost medical device makers $138 million a year, MITA says

President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Chinese imports will cost American medical device makers more than $138 million this year, the