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• HITECH Act Brings High Price for Privacy Breach: Are Healthcare Organizations Ready for Health IT Security Demands?

  
  EMR Blog — Authority: 125
  The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, which was enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, significantly increased the HHS Secretary’s authority to impose higher monetary penalties for HIPAA violations occurring after Feb. 18, 2009. Prior to the ...
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• U.S. continues to trail other countries in physician IT adoption

  
  News — Authority: 128
  The Commonwealth Funds annual survey of international health policy is out, and, to nobodys surprise, primary-care physicians in the U.S. and Canada continue to trail their counterparts in Europe and the South Pacific in terms of health IT adoption. The survey, published as a Health Affairs web exclusive, finds that ...
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• HIMSS: Health organizations not prepared for new HIPAA rules

  
  News — Authority: 128
  Following closely on the heels of the publication of an HHS interim final rule that sharply raises civil penalties for HIPAA privacy violations comes a report from HIMSS that healthcare organizations are woefully underprepared to meet the new, tougher HIPAA privacy and security requirements called for in the American ...
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• Further on the US Healthcare IT Standards Debate

  
  Wes Rishel — Authority: 106
  In A Singular Opportunity for Health Interoperability I summarized a metaphor based on the Web standards HTTP and HTML which was “get HL7 and other SDOs out of the HTTP business.” Metaphors gain their power from poetic ambiguity. One of the great things about a metaphor is that it can rally so many folks to ...
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• Incentives for EHR Adoption: Pay Now or Pay Later

  
  EMR Blog — Authority: 125
  The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) has announced that starting January 2010, healthcare providers will have the option to use electronic health record systems to report Medicare quality and electronic prescribing measures to CMS in some of its pay-for-performance programs. The revisions are designed “to ...
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• New HIPAA Privacy and Security Enforcement Laws Favor Smart Card Use in Healthcare.

  
  WorldHealthCareBlog.org — Authority: 108
  Smart cards have been touted for years as a secure and efficient way to convey identification information, health plan benefits information, electronic health records, and more. However, adoption has been slow as providers dragged their feet in buying the necessary readers while the industry has worked to develop ...
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• Certifying EHRs for "Meaningful Use"

  
  HIPAA, HITECH & HIT — Authority: 112
  On November 2, 2009, the Texas-based Drummond Group Inc. announced in a Press Release that it will submit to become a certifying body upon the release of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) requirements for certifying bodies for Electronic Health Records (EHR).  ONC is ...
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• U.S. Lags Behind Other Countries In Primary Care

  
  Health Affairs Blog — Authority: 567
  In many countries, primary care clinicians serve as the foundation for health care and the “gatekeepers” for more specialized referrals. A new international survey of primary care physicians in eleven countries finds that American doctors are significantly behind many of their counterparts elsewhere in providing ...
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• Stimulus Fuels Gold Rush For Electronic Health Systems: Huffington Post

  
  Future of Health IT: Trends and Scenarios — Authority: 121
  I heard about this story on Huffington Post from David Kibbe, founding father of the Clinical Groupware Collaborative (CGwC). Heres a quote that struck my eye: Federal officials wont decide until early next year which types of systems to certify. But some of the worlds largest companies, including General Electric, ...
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• BAT FIGHT with Will Ferrell

  
  Watch your favorite videos on the internet. — Authority: 171
  Its a game of honor and diplomacy....
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• Senate Inquiring About How Much of Policy Money from Insurers Actually Goes to Healthcare

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 514
  Senator Rockefeller is convinced they are not being told the truth, and there might just be something to that, as in California the State has inquired and brought investigations about several times.  Several states have also looked into the amount of “reserves”, in other words rainy day money that is ...
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• "Meaningful Use" competition for CCHIT - from FierceHealthIT

  
  Future of Health IT: Trends and Scenarios — Authority: 121
  Its the news weve been waiting for since June, when the Healthcare IT Policy Committee recommended that there be multiple entities that certify EHRs for compliance with federal "meaningful use" standards: A group has come forward to say it may compete with the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information ...
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• A Singular Opportunity for Health Interoperability

  
  Wes Rishel — Authority: 106
  Sean Nolan of Microsoft just published a finding from the HIT Standards Committee testimony on implementation last Thursday. See his blog item  Hey — was that just an HIT Standards breakthrough? I summarized and perhaps oversimplified an analogy that had built up during multiple conversations by saying ...
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• A Singular Opportunity for Health Interoperability

  
  Wes Rishel — Authority: 106
  Sean Nolan of Microsoft just published a finding from the HIT Standards Committee testimony on implementation last Thursday. See his blog item  Hey — was that just an HIT Standards breakthrough? I summarized and perhaps oversimplified an analogy that had built up during multiple conversations by saying ...
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• EMRs and Secondary Data

  
  EMR Blog — Authority: 125
  “Wisdom alone is true ambition’s aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.” – Alfred North Whitehead There is an important lesson here with ramifications for health IT: What is the good of information if not ...
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• Today’s Health Content Headlines

  
  Health Content Advisors — Authority: 110
  Please scroll down if the story you are looking for is not the first headline.  New stories are added throughout the day and I may have provided a link to the most current story that is now lower down on the page.  Follow me on Twitter @janicemccallum.
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• Headline Commentary October 19-31

  
  Health Content Advisors — Authority: 110
  »  Microsoft and Its Competitors Still In Search of Mainstream User Base for Personal Health Records | Xconomy Usage of free PHR services hasn’t yet taken off. Peter Neupert of MSFT hints that wider adoption of IT by physicians and better connectedness between the stakeholders are needed before the value of ...
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• Companies Making Big Dollars Without People – Healthcare Can’t Do That As We are the Product

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 514
  This was in the LA Times and makes some very good points about economic times.  How are the companies making big dollars and yet unemployment is not getting any better?  Businesses today with technology are finding ways to increase profits without the rank and file workers, even companies who are doing well are ...
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• Implementing an EMR or health IT system is harder than it looks

  
  KevinMD.com — Authority: 608
  "> "> by Bob Wachter, MD In 2001, when my colleagues and I ranked nearly 100 patient safety practices on the strength of their supporting evidence (for an AHRQ report), healthcare IT didn’t make the top 25. We took a lot of heat for, as one prominent patient safety advocate chided me, “slowing down ...
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• The Key to Health IT’s Success (Guest Blog Post)

  
  PolicyBeta — Authority: 489
  CDT’s Sheel Pandya, Policy Counsel for the Health Privacy Project wrote a guest blog post on American Constitution Society’s blog discussing a comprehensive privacy and security framework as the key to health IT’s success. The passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) in February ...
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