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<title><![CDATA[Industry Working To Address Patients' Use of Mobile Health Apps]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Patients increasingly are using mobile health applications, but many physicians are concerned that the apps may not perform as they claim. As a result, health app store Happtique is working to recruit clinicians to evaluate such apps. WBUR/Kaiser Health News, D Healthcare Daily.<br/><br/>14 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Medicare IT Contractor Needs To Boost USB Security, OIG Says]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:10:18 PDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[An HHS Office of the Inspector General report says that a Medicare IT contractor should improve security controls for USB devices. It states that Quality Software Services' insufficient controls have put the data of more than six million beneficiaries at risk. Government Health IT.<br/><br/>15 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Transparency Not Enough To Cut Health Care Costs, Experts Say]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:10:12 PDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, health experts told members of the Senate Finance Committee health care data transparency efforts alone will not control rising health care costs. At the hearing, journalist Steve Brill said that even when patients are provided with pricing data, most of them are unable to take steps to avoid high costs. Kaiser Health News' "Capsules," MedCity News.<br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Future Healthcare at the 38th World Hospital Congress]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:21:18 PDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[What are the opportunities for the use of new technology to improve health and healthcare? That was the focus of the 38th World Hospital Congress taking place this week in Oslo, Norway. The Congress was held under the auspices of the International Hospital...(read more)<br/><br/>16 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Amazon AWS Will Sign HIPAA Business Associate Agreement]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:21:04 PDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Amazon has finally issued guidance on their support for HIPPA/HITECH applications on AWS. They now sign BAAs. http://t.co/1EcXIM8Y7i- Ian Eslick (@ieslick) June 18, 2013Thanks to Ian Eslick for catching this piece of news. This is really big news, because there were a lot of companies and organizations that were building healthcare applications on the back of Amazon AWS. I&#8217;m glad that Amazon has finally put together a policy related to HIPAA.Here&#8217;s their new section describing their compliance with HIPAA:AWS enables covered entities and their business associates subject to the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)  to leverage the secure AWS environment to process, maintain, and store protected health information and AWS will be signing business associate agreements with such customers. AWS also offers a HIPAA-focused whitepaper for customers interested in learning more about how they can leverage AWS for the processing and storage of health information. The Creating HIPAA-Compliant Medical Data Applications with AWS whitepaper outlines how companies can use AWS to process systems that facilitate HIPAA and HITECH compliance. For more information on the AWS HIPAA compliance program please contact AWS Sales and Business Development.Obviously the devil is in the details on this.  I&#8217;ll reach out to one of my HIPAA lawyer friends to see what they think of this.  If you&#8217;re a healthcare ...Read moreRelated Posts		Be Sure That Business Associates Are HIPAA-Prepared, Or Else    		EMR Consulting Business Model    		No @ Sign for Healthcare    	<br/><br/>18 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Q&A with Farzad Mostashari, MD]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:20:55 PDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Farzad Mostashari, MD, spoke with Healthcare IT News Senior Editor Diana Manos Monday at the HIMSS Media ICD-10 Forum in&nbsp; National Harbor, Md.&nbsp; With his typical candor and energy, Mostashari commented on several healthcare IT issue      Big data:&nbsp;                                    None                read more<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[3 benefits of virtual health assistants]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:20:49 PDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[With all the changes buffeting the healthcare sector, these days, it&#39;s easy to overlook what&#39;s happening to the nation&#39;s supply of doctors. According to a 2012 report by the Association of American Medical Colleges, &quot;the United States is projected to confront a shortage of 91,500 doctors by 2020.&quot;	While, naturally, the most obvious solution to this looming problem is to figure out how to get more young people to become doctors, another partial solution is being built even as we speak.      Big data:&nbsp;                                    None                read more<br/><br/>14 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Healtheway names founding members]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:20:46 PDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Healtheway, the nonprofit, public-private partnership that operationally supports the eHealth Exchange (formerly known as the Nationwide Health Information Network Exchange) today announced its nine founding organizations. The organizations will supplement the involvement of the federal government around the eHealth Exchange, Healtheway officials said in a news release.	The nine founding members are:      Big data:&nbsp;                                    None                read more<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Americans want more mHealth options]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:20:43 PDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[	More and more Americans are keen on the idea of using mobile devices to better monitor their health, according to new survey findings released Tuesday.&nbsp;	&nbsp;	The survey, conducted by Harris Interactive and HealthDay, revealed that one-third of Internet-using adults expressed interest in using smartphones or tablets to make doctors appointments, receive medical test results of communicate with their doctors.&nbsp;	&nbsp;      Big data:&nbsp;                                    None                read more<br/><br/>15 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Bill backs Office of Wireless Health]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:20:39 PDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A California congressman has reintroduced legislation that would create an Office of Wireless Health in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.Rep. Mike Honda, D-Calif., reintroduced H.R. 2363, known as the Healthcare Innovation and Marketplace Technologies Act, last week. The bill had been introduced last year, but didn&#39;t advance beyond the committee stage.      Big data:&nbsp;                                    None                read more<br/><br/>18 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Study: Some Prevalent Health Conditions Lack Mobile Applications]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:10:41 PDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A study finds that there is a significant number of commercial and research mobile applications for certain prevalent health conditions -- such as diabetes and depression -- but a lack of such apps for other prevalent conditions, such as anemia. FierceMobileHealthcare.<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Military CIOs Say VA, Pentagon Still Working Together on EHR Efforts]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:10:35 PDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[At a recent conference, a military CIO said while a commercial electronic health record solution is the best option for the Department of Defense, the department is maintaining open communication with the Department of Veterans Affairs. FierceHealthIT, Healthcare IT News.<br/><br/>17 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[EHR and HIT News for July 18th]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:30:05 PDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s EHR and HIT news includes a customer acquisition updates from Merge Healthcare as well as news from Hyland Software on how their OnBase product has helped one customer recover more than $300 million by reducing net accounts receivable days.   St. Mary&#8217;s Healthcare System Selects iConnect Access and iConnect Enterprise Archive Merge Healthcare  has [...]<br/><br/>20 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Health IT & EHR State Summaries]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:20:22 PDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m always happy to look at data.  Certainly data can lie, but it can also inform if you are looking at the right data and considering the biases of the data.  I applaud ONC for being as transparent as possible with the EHR incentive program data.  They have an entire Health IT Dashboard for analyzing the data.  I think this is a great step towards accountability for how the EHR incentive money is being spent.ONC recently announced a set of Health IT Quick Stats and even created a widget (embedded below) that lets you download a 3 page health IT and HITECH summary for your state.  I think a few states are missing from the widget and why they grouped them by area I don&#8217;t know, but there&#8217;s some interesting data in the reports.I downloaded my home state of Nevada to see how we&#8217;re doing with Health IT and HITECH.  Here are a few thoughts I had when looking at EHR use in Nevada.I was amazed that so many REC assisted providers were live with an EHR, but less than half of those had demonstrated meaningful use.  We&#8217;ll see if that changes after this years attestations.I do have to question some of the data since it shows ...Read moreRelated Posts		EHR and Encryption, Down Computers and EHR, and State Health Exchanges Might Not Be Sustainable    		Can 2-State Medicaid Providers Collect 2 EHR Incentives? - Meaningful Use Monday    		Medicaid State Information for EHR Incentives &#8211; Meaningful Use Monday    	<br/><br/>20 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Facebook Helped Boost Organ Donor Registration Rates, According to Study]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:10:47 PDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A study finds that a Facebook project has helped boost organ donor registration rates since it launched in May 2012 to 161 million users. On the first day of the initiative, 13,054 U.S. residents registered online to be donors, according to the study. Kaiser Health News' "Capsules" et al.<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Telehealth Project Expanded To Boost Mental Health Access]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:10:42 PDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, the GE Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation have announced they plan to use telehealth to increase access to mental health and substance use disorder services in underserved areas. MedPage Today, Politico.<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[FDA Sends OMB Final Rule for Medical Device Tracking System]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:10:36 PDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A unique device identification system for medical devices is one step closer to implementation, as FDA sent the Office of Management and Budget a final rule to review. The system would let FDA electronically track medical tools and promptly recall potentially dangerous devices. OMB review is one of the last steps before a rule is published in the Federal Register. Health Data Management.<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[CareCloud Raises $20 Million Series B Financing Round]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:30:12 PDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[CareCloud has announced another round of financing, this time a $20 million in Series B round.  The funding round was led by Tenaya Capital and included existing investors Intel Capital and Norwest Venture Partners. This round brings Miami based CareCloud&#8217;s total funding to $44 million so far.  CareCloud provides cloud-based practice management, electronic health records, [...]<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Acquisition Alert:  Vitera Healthcare Acquires Success EHS]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:30:06 PDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Vitera Healthcare Solutions has announced their acquisition of SuccessEHS.  Pending customary regulatory approval, the Birmingham, AL-based SuccessEHS will become a division of Vitera. &#8220;Our acquisition of SuccessEHS supports our strategy for growth in the changing healthcare marketplace and is indicative of the tremendous progress Vitera has made over the past 18 months,&#8221; said Matthew...<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ONC's Ricciardi gives consumers voice]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:20:39 PDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Lygeia Ricciardi became the first director of the ONC&rsquo;s Office of Consumer e-Health in In May 2012. The office evolved from the Office of Policy and Planning as CMS and HHS leaders started realizing the central role of individuals in the grand scheme of American healthcare and its reform.      Big data:&nbsp;                                    None                read more<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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