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As more health care data becomes digital, data storage and data access become increasingly important issues. Stories here tackle the many aspects of managing a data warehouse, including data feeds, data formats, and access and governance issues.


Report: HIEs Need I.T. Help, but Shun HIT Workers from Fed’s Training Programs

Joseph Goedert | Feb 08
Many health information exchanges lack staff with strong information technology skills, but are not likely to hire graduates of a government-funded health I.T. training program, according to a report.
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Verizon, Health Evolution Partners Align to Accelerate Health I.T.

Joseph Goedert | Feb 06
An alliance between telecommunications firm Verizon and investment firm Health Evolution Partners is designed to accelerate development of mobile and cloud-based applications for the health care industry.
Vendor News
Health Info Exchange

Social Security Numbers, Other Veterans’ PHI Ends Up on Ancestry.com

Joseph Goedert | Jan 23
The Department of Veterans Affairs has notified more than 2,200 veterans and is offering them one year of credit monitoring services after protected information including Social Security numbers were posted on the Ancestry.com Web site.
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Data Security
EHR

Pediatric Cancer Genome Data Open to Researchers

Joseph Goedert | Jan 12
Two years ago, St. Jude Children’s Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine started the Pediatric Cancer Genome Project to sequence the entire genomes of normal and cancer cells of 600 pediatric cancer patients over three years.
Disease Management
Health Analytics

Hospital Database to Add Physician Data

Joseph Goedert | Jan 11
Billians HealthDATA will bolster its hospital sales and marketing database of business intelligence through an alliance with HealthLink Dimensions, which will add hospital-affiliated physician data to the database.
Health Analytics
Vendor News

HHS Publishes Core Medicaid Quality Measures

Joseph Goedert | Jan 03
The Department of Health and Human Services has announced the initial core set of 35 health care quality measures for Medicaid-eligible adults, which states can voluntarily use to facilitate quality improvements.
Policy & Regulation
Payers

New ONC Database to Track I.T. Progress to Include Some Identifiable Info

Joseph Goedert | Dec 21
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology will create a new database to assess the effectiveness of ONC grants given to establish state health information exchanges, regional extension centers to help physicians adopt electronic health records, and community colleges to establish health I.T. training programs.
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Policy & Regulation
EHR

Cedars-Sinai to Help WellPoint Use Watson Supercomputer Tech

Joseph Goedert | Dec 21
Health insurer WellPoint Inc., which is developing clinical decision support technology using capabilities of IBM’s Watson supercomputer, will get help from the Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
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Decision Support

Does the Best Information Worker Arrive by Nature or Nurture?

Jim Ericson - Information Management magazine | Dec 15
I've been following an interesting dialog over at our sister publication Health Data Management, an editorial that said the best choices for careers in health care I.T. systems are those without health care certification or even pure I.T. backgrounds.
Health Analytics
Data Security

Autism Repository Gets Family-Level Content

Joseph Goedert | Dec 12
The Autism Genetic Resource Exchange, an initiative of Autism Speaks, has contributed its data to the National Database for Autism Research, which is supported by the National Institutes of Health.
Health Analytics
Disease Management

Harris to Centralize VA Repository Management

Joseph Goedert | Dec 12
Contractor Harris Corp. will build a federated data repository for the Department of Veterans Affairs to give a uniform view of VA repositories across the nation and centralize network development and management.
Health Analytics
Policy & Regulation

New Platform for Hospital Vendor CPSI

Joseph Goedert | Dec 12
Computer Programs and Systems Inc. has introduced a new platform for its clinical/financial/administrative hospital information system for community and rural facilities.
Health Analytics
EHR

North Carolina Blues Outsources I.T. to Fujitsu

Joseph Goedert | Dec 12
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina will outsource management of its information technology in a deal that includes selling its I.T. shop to the outsourcer.
Data Security
Electronic Data Interchange

IBM, Drug Firms Donate Chemical Data to Life Sciences Researchers

Joseph Goedert | Dec 08
IBM Corp. and four major drug manufacturers have donated to the National Institutes of Health a huge database of chemical data extracted from patents and scientific literature.
Health Analytics
Decision Support

Microsoft Moving Most Health Care Products to GE Joint Venture

Joseph Goedert | Dec 08
Microsoft Corp. is exiting much of its health care-specific application business by moving those products into a joint venture with GE Healthcare.
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Health Analytics
Decision Support
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