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NewsPatients sue UCLA over encrypted data breach
UCLA Health System faces a class-action lawsuit regarding a data breach that involved the electronic health records of 16,288 patients. Even though the hard drive, which was stolen during a home Read more...
Kadlec, Prosser hospitals partner to share patient records
Kadlec Regional Medical Center and PMH Medical Center (formerly Prosser Memorial Hospital), both in Washington state, will be able to share patient records through a central database, therefore, Read more...
Execs split on ACO participation, reimbursement weighs on minds
With an almost even split between joiners and non-participants or undecided respondents, healthcare executives this week revealed their intentions to participate or forgo the accountable care Read more...
Medical data protections ramp up
Government enforcers are taking a stronger stance on healthcare providers, organizations and insurance companies that leak medical information. Often cited as the key to reducing healthcare costs, Read more...
When disaster strikes, will the U.S. healthcare community be ready?
News reports from Japan have been tragic and heartbreaking in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami disasters. The tension has been made even more overwhelming by the sudden threat of radiation Read more...
Health IT push could widen gap between rich, poor patients
Could the government's push to digitize all medical records in the next five years end up working against its goal of providing quality care to all Americans? That's the question posed in an article Read more...
Tom Pettibone: EHR implementation--are you ready for change?
The U.S. government has set an aggressive goal for the healthcare industry, ensuring every American has an electronic healthcare record by 2014. As President Obama's recovery package rolls out Read more...
Dr. Robert Teague: Electronic records as is could be 'potentially dangerous'
Having been at this for about 20 years--both in design and implementation--the current crop of electronic records is most definitely not ready for prime time. In the beginning, the software Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: EHR has issues, but they are not insurmountable
The Boston Globe recently had an article about Google Health highlighting the problems with the information found in the one man's health record. Letting Google give you a window into your health Read more...
U of OK, IBM team to build EHR
The University of Oklahoma announced Thursday that its medical school will build an electronic health record pilot in conjunction with IBM. The program will include 355 doctors, and will help to Read more...
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