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More than 5 million American veterans have registered for the My HealtheVet personal health record and patient portal to enable them to better manage their healthcare.December 9
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A draft data management and sharing policy issued by the National Institutes of Health is counterproductive, according to the American Medical Informatics Association.December 3
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A focus on small data—one number for one patient—could revolutionize healthcare; however, clinicians and caregivers don’t always have access to small data when they need it.November 26
Divisional chief health officerEnvolve Health
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The American Medical Informatics Association wants the National Institutes of Health to fund research and development to advance HL7’s Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources standard.November 26
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A new data portal is providing medical researchers with de-identified information from 4,298 Parkinson’s disease patients, including cerebrospinal fluid, DNA samples, plasma and RNA.November 24
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The National Cancer Institute has awarded Vanderbilt University Medical Center a $5.3 million grant to develop a single clinical platform for collecting family health histories to identify patients at risk for hereditary cancers.November 21
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The Visiting Nurse Service of New York has selected a platform from Netsmart to better support its population health management program.November 20
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How the Department of Health and Human Services manages, shares and secures its data is among the top management and performance challenges facing the agency.November 18
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HL7’s Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources standard is the linchpin of health insurer Humana’s efforts to support data sharing with provider organizations to improve care for its members.November 18
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Executives at MIMIT Health say the practice is saving data entry time after struggling to find the right customer relationship management software package.November 15
