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What I heard at the Government Health IT Conference

 Anthony Brino June 18, 2013
Amid a fifth IT revolution and the rise of mobile health, the federal government is working to reform the U.S. healthcare market while digitizing medicine, doing so slowly but steadily.
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Medical devices pose cyber breach risks, FDA says

 Diana Manos June 14, 2013
Agency recommends that manufacturers review cybersecurity practices to assure that safeguards prevent unauthorized access or modification that might compromise the hospital network connected to the device.
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Glaser: Healthcare is amid fifth IT revolution

 Tom Sullivan June 12, 2013
The wave of connected microprocessors cresting in many industries is among the factors changing healthcare. John Glaser envisions an industry that looks different from the way it does today.
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Survey finds docs struggling to meet MU

 Anthony Brino June 04, 2013
An Annals of Internal Medicine study found only about 10 percent of physicians meeting meaningful use standards in early 2012, leading the journal to call for more regulatory focus on standards to improve EHR usability.
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Google nutrition info: A healthcare tie-in?

 Benjamin Harris June 03, 2013
A look at some of the implications to Google releasing integrated nutritional information within its search.
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NYeC PHR design winners to shape public portal

 Anthony Brino May 16, 2013
The New York eHealth Collaborative has announced the three finalists of its PHR design challenge, and is now seeking proposals for a patient portal that'll be available for all New Yorkers in 2014.
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Three Day Congressional Hearing Series On Potential Regulations of Mobile Apps

 Brian Ahier March 21, 2013
The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), Tuesday kicked off the “Health Information Technologies” hearing series to discuss the critical role of technology in the health care industry and how federal regulations and taxes could impact patients, hinder innovation, and increase costs for consumers.
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House kicks off mHealth hearings

 Diana Manos March 19, 2013
Over 3 days, the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology will hear from witnesses about how to balance between innovation and regulation.
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3 mHealth trends playing on world stage

 Benjamin Harris March 19, 2013
Some of the cutting-edge advancements in mobile technology are happening far from American soil.
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Humetrix to demo UK version of iBlueButton to NHS

 Mike Miliard March 14, 2013
The forthcoming localized version will enable UK citizens to download and share personal health record data with providers.
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Patient engagement pilots find success, face challenges

 Anthony Brino March 11, 2013
An ONC report on four state-based consumer innovation pilots shows emerging models for HIE-based patient engagement, as well as the technical, legal and financial barriers similar projects are facing.
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HIMSS13 boasts heavyweight keynoters

 Madelyn Kearns February 28, 2013
From former President Bill Clinton to Eric Topol, with a pair of seasoned political strategists in there too, next week's HIMSS13 conference will feature an impressive lineup of speakers.
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Q&A: iBlueButton empowers patients to be the HIE

 Mary Mosquera February 25, 2013
Humetrix expands its mobile health information hub to arm Apple and Android devices with access to various Blue Button accounts and, in so doing, moves patients closer to the center of their own health records.
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Humetrix launches cross-platform Blue Button

 Anthony Brino February 21, 2013
The company that won the ONC's Blue Button mashup and innovation challenge has released a cross-platform version of the app, seeking to fill current gaps in patient-doctor information exchange.
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Mobile HIX enrollment: A critical asset for ACA success

 Lucy Streett February 13, 2013
A large percentage of the Americans that the Affordable Care Act aims to bring into the insurance pool access the Web primarily through their smartphones. For the ACA to achieve its potential, federal and state governments must reach those citizens where it's most convenient for the consumer.
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Mechael explains where mHealth will be most disruptive

 Diana Manos January 18, 2013
mHealth Alliance executive director says that doctor's "role will change and be systematically refined" as they increasingly interact with patients via mobile devices.
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Are providers ripe for a massive medical records heist?

 Tom Sullivan January 14, 2013
Stolen health records are worth five orders of magnitude more than financial ones -- and as mobile devices, electronic information exchange, and healthcare cloud repositories proliferate across an industry lagging in encryption practices, those health records might become more alluring to organized criminals.
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Not merely lost: What happens to stolen health records

 Tom Sullivan January 14, 2013
There are well-known ways that thieves make use of medical data and then there are some surprises, such as marketing ploys.
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11 data security tips for a healthy organization in 2013

 Rick Kam January 08, 2013
Rick Kam collects a cadre of tactics from colleagues about the best ways to safeguard patient information from assessing risk to big data and controlling the cloud, to attacking your own leadership with phishing and social engineering campaigns.
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Bipartisan Policy Center report finds slow health app adoption

 Diana Manos December 10, 2012
The BPC also says that smartphones could be the missing piece to patient engagement and help decrease healthcare costs.
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