A recent alert from the Department of Homeland Security warns that approximately 300 medical devices from 40 different vendors contain hard-coded passwords. Billy Rios and Terry McCorkle, technical directors and […]
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The Google Glass device, wearable technology with a head-mounted display, is generating controversy over its potential impact on society in general and healthcare in particular. One of the entrants to
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The Department of Health and Human Services recently named Lyfechannel’s myfamily app as the winner of its Healthfinder.gov Mobile App Challenge. The challenge, sponsored by HHS’ Office of Disease Prevention and Health
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Six healthcare IT giants announced this week the launch of a nonprofit organization to promote interoperability and universal access to healthcare data. At Monday’s press conference at the Healthcare Information
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A new report finds that the number of large-scale health data breaches increased last year, while the number of patients affected by them decreased. The report from California-based IT security
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A February 7th letter signed by the chairwoman and the president/CEO of HIMSS expresses “strong support” for adopting ICD-10 by October 1, 2014. The letter from Willa Fields (Chair, HIMSS
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While hospitals and health systems project a decline in capital expenditure budgets, healthcare IT spending seems to be growing, according to a new survey. Premier’s latest Economic Outlook, which is
Health IT Spending to Increase Read More »
The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services has awarded a $15 billion contract for the creation of a virtual data center and consolidation of its huge datasets. CMS’ decentralized status
$15B Contract Awarded by CMS Read More »
The Department of Health and Human Services has extended the deadline for states to submit detailed applications for their own Health Information Exchanges. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius sent letters to
HIE Blueprints Deadline Extended Read More »
A study by Weil Cornell Medical College researchers found that using Electronic Health Records systems results in significantly higher care quality scores than using paper records for certain health conditions.
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