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Health Data Management is the information resource that medical and IT professionals are leveraging to shape healthcare's future.
DATA SETS
Realizing the risk of dormant accounts and excessive permissions are critical to protecting health data.
October 7
Virtual care and decision support tools figure prominently in large employers’ plans to improve care quality and access.
October 2
With a new decade ahead of us, along with its expected technology challenges, it’s good to reflect on how far we’ve come.
September 26
Precision medicine has potential to change how clinicians and the healthcare industry conceptualize disease.
September 23
Digital health technologies enable consumers to be more proactive in interactions with healthcare providers.
September 4
Top information executives need to focus on these habits to ensure that projects deliver crucial results.
August 21
Law officials in various states are becoming much more active and now banding together to initiate suits.
August 19
To get the best results from clinical systems, IT executives need to maximize planning and take full advantage of support programs.
August 13
HIT THINK
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PartnersMcDermott Will & EmeryOctober 16 -
Vice presidentGalen Healthcare SolutionsOctober 10
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Digital transformation
Founder and chief executive officerBizagiOctober 9
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AssociateMirick, O'Connell, DeMallie & Lougee, LLPOctober 8
MORE HEADLINES
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James Park, co-founder and CEO of Fitbit, contends that while wearable fitness trackers started as “nice to have” consumer devices, they are fast becoming “must have” technology for managing health.October 18
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More Americans are seeking technology as part of their healthcare experience, according to UnitedHealthcare’s annual survey of consumer sentiment.October 18
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The Advanced Medical Technology Association has created a Center for Digital Health to help its member companies to leverage healthcare data and technological innovation.October 18
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Deep natural language processing can harness information from radiology reports in electronic health records to rapidly ascertain if a patient has cancer and shifts in the disease.October 17
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Health plans and other stakeholders are convinced that the use of ICD-10 coding can greatly launch the uniform capture of data related to social determinants of health and improve health outcomes.October 17
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There’s actual progress happening in the trenches of standards development, network proliferation and patient access.October 17
HIT TOOLKIT
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A new cloud-based application has been built to streamline specimen collecting, tracking and labeling, while also automating laboratory receiving and processing procedures.July 23
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Three critical access hospitals in Montana have selected the Evident electronic health records system of CPSI as well as its TruBridge revenue cycle management software.July 23
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The recent data breach at the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services demonstrates the risk that hired third-party vendors pose to healthcare organizations.July 18
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A recent survey suggests that a majority of healthcare organizations are now putting data in the cloud, often without sufficient security protection.July 17
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Providers may be placing too much trust in cybersecurity practices that are not sophisticated enough to deter high-level attacks by hackers.July 17
