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October 2014

Google planning for cancer cell searches (10/31/2014)

Microsoft unveils smartwatch (10/31/2014)

CHIME recognizes Memorial Healthcare, Iatric Systems (10/31/2014)

CHIME, KLAS enter partnership (10/31/2014)

Impressive innovation (10/31/2014)

DreamIt demo day highlights disruptive care technologies (10/31/2014)

Bending of cost curve becoming apparent (10/31/2014)

athenahealth's Bush: 'Nobody's winning' (10/31/2014)

Moving towards data-informed personalized health (10/30/2014)

Mobile stroke unit tops Cleveland Clinic's top innovations for 2015 (10/30/2014)

DeSalvo will maintain leadership role at ONC (10/30/2014)

Cleveland Clinic Innovation Summit panel covers the future of healthcare, research (10/30/2014)

Cleveland Clinic’s top 10 medical innovations for 2015 (10/30/2014)

Feds open HIX portal for small businesses (10/29/2014)

The beginning of the end of Ebola in Liberia? (10/29/2014)

Booz Allen acquires analytics start-up Epidemico (10/29/2014)

Physicians reluctant to accept ACA patients (10/29/2014)

Meyer talks population health 2.0 (10/29/2014)

CHIME, AHA to partner on IT (10/29/2014)

P4 medicine: A shift from disease to wellness (10/29/2014)

Truven Health Analytics and Cerner Partner to Make Micromedex Integrated CareNotes Available to Cerner EHR Clients (10/29/2014)

NCPDP Announces Elite Partner Program, Welcomes CoverMyMeds as Inaugural Elite Partner (10/29/2014)

Diagnotes Joins Allscripts Developer Program (10/29/2014)

AMA comments on ONC vacancies (10/28/2014)

HIMSS Analytics: Room for improvement for portals (10/28/2014)

MGMA study finds QI not good for practice efficiency, morale (10/28/2014)

CCHIT ends all operations (10/28/2014)

‘Possibly thousands’ of medical records fly off truck (10/28/2014)

Physician-patient email communication nearly triples in study (10/28/2014)

Partners plans for future with connected health (10/28/2014)

Keys to advancing telehealth (10/28/2014)

Secure Exchange Solutions One of Four HISPs Included in Debut of DirectTrust Accredited Trust Anchor Bundle (10/28/2014)

Health Gorilla Releases Marketplace 2.0 for Doctors (10/28/2014)

LA Times Editorial Board weighs in on ACA (10/28/2014)

Futura Mobility Shows How to Yield ROI Using Secure Mobile Communications at the CHIME CIO Fall Forum (10/28/2014)

CDC issues new Ebola guidelines (10/28/2014)

Seattle companies make plans for new innovation hub (10/28/2014)

CIO survey finds problems with info retrieval from EHRs (10/28/2014)

NIH, Geisinger launch portal for genomic data (10/27/2014)

The data are in: Corporate wellness programs work (10/27/2014)

Health economist shares his struggles with selecting a health plan (10/27/2014)

FDA expedites approval for two Ebola tests (10/27/2014)

Partners pilots connected health interventions (10/27/2014)

Kvedar: How to get health apps right (10/27/2014)

Tufts Medical Center and Specialists On Call to Deliver 24/7 Access to Neurology Experts Through TeleNeurology Collaboration (10/27/2014)

MedAptus and Entrada Announce Corporate Partnership (10/27/2014)

Kareo Secures $15 Million in Mezzanine Debt from Escalate Capital Partners (10/27/2014)

Dallas nurse Nina Pham Ebola-free (10/25/2014)

Price transparency tools can lower costs (10/25/2014)

Will HealthCare.com, a private endeavor, mislead consumers? (10/25/2014)

N.J., N.Y. implement new Ebola restrictions (10/25/2014)

ONC’s DeSalvo steps down (10/25/2014)

Creating linkages between behavioral health and primary care (10/24/2014)

Piloting innovation at Aetna (10/24/2014)

CHIME opens up membership to CTOs, CAOs (10/24/2014)

Reider to leave ONC by end of Nov. (10/24/2014)

Surprising change (10/24/2014)

DeSalvo leaving ONC for Ebola response team (10/23/2014)

CMS commits $840M to care transformation (10/23/2014)

Setting a good example (10/23/2014)

Mobile users have better EHR experiences (10/23/2014)

Combining HIE, eRx database to EHRs improves med list accuracy (10/23/2014)

OIG audit finds FDA cybersecurity vulnerabilities (10/23/2014)

HHS extends anti-kickback waivers for MSSP ACOs (10/22/2014)

U.S. to monitor W. African visitors for Ebola (10/22/2014)

Physician groups owned by hospitals see higher medical costs (10/22/2014)

Analysis: Part D is main cause of $500B Medicare slowdown (10/22/2014)

Most uninsured don’t know about upcoming enrollment period (10/22/2014)

BlueStep/BridgeGate Health Rebrands, Unveils Fully Interoperable EHR for LTPAC (10/22/2014)

Survey: 2015 Health IT Priorities (10/22/2014)

Institute shares guiding principles for patient-centered care (10/22/2014)

ACO draft accreditation criteria open to public comment (10/22/2014)

To innovate, be prepared to fail (10/22/2014)

Mobile Heartbeat and AirStrip Form Technology Partnership (10/22/2014)

Nuance and eClinicalWorks Support AMA Guidelines with New Voice-Enabled Mobile Apps (10/22/2014)

PointClickCare Launches Integrated Direct Messaging Enrollment at LeadingAge Annual Meeting & Expo 2014 (10/22/2014)

Delbanco: OpenNotes is ‘contagious’ (10/21/2014)

NIH invests in big data (10/21/2014)

Five rules to reconsider innovation (10/21/2014)

Innovation can free up doctors for patient care, connection (10/21/2014)

Ohio initiative delivers patient-centered care (10/21/2014)

Why FitBit won't work with HealthKit (10/21/2014)

CVS prescription-drug plan costs more at stores selling tobacco (10/21/2014)

Dallas officials declare 43 individuals Ebola-free (10/20/2014)

Open Payments website gets improvements (10/20/2014)

CMS launches Open Payments search tool (10/20/2014)

A push for telemedicine (10/20/2014)

Nurses' dissatisfaction with EHRs at 'all-time high' (10/20/2014)

$11B DoD EHR bid coming to an end (10/20/2014)

CHE Trinity Health and Quantia Partner to Improve Patient Care by Bringing Clinical Experts Together More Frequently and Less Formally (10/20/2014)

RWJF launches tour to explore how data can improve outcomes (10/18/2014)

CMS to invest $114M in ACOs (10/18/2014)

Medical malpractice reform won’t yield big savings (10/18/2014)

JAMA puts spotlight on Ebola (10/17/2014)

Obama taps Ron Klain to serve as 'Ebola czar' (10/17/2014)

Study demonstrates feasibility of centralized data warehouse with disparate EHRs (10/17/2014)

RWJF to embark on five-city tour to explore how data can improve health (10/17/2014)

CMS unveils new investment model to advance ACOs (10/17/2014)

MIT and MGH partnership tackles clinical medicine challenges (10/17/2014)

HITPC governance workgroup calls for public-private consortium (10/17/2014)

Establishing foundation, roadmap for interoperability (10/17/2014)

GCI Health Rolls Out New Patients at the Center Initiative (10/16/2014)

'Hugely ambitious' plans for interoperability roadmap revealed (10/16/2014)

Federal advisory committees endorse task force recommendation for public API (10/16/2014)

Big data and cancer (10/16/2014)

Calming fears that ACA would overburden the healthcare industry (10/16/2014)

Kaiser: State Medicaid spending growing more slowly than total spending (10/16/2014)

Nurses’ union accuses Dallas hospital of putting patients, clinicians at risk (10/15/2014)

Second U.S. Ebola-infected health worker had taken airplane (10/15/2014)

ActX Joins Greenway Online Marketplace for Comprehensive Health IT Solutions, Offering Integrated Genomic Decision Support (10/15/2014)

Practice Fusion Expands to Puerto Rico, Adding New Partners ASSERTUS, Atlantic Pathology and HRP Labs (10/15/2014)

NoteSwift Expands Partnership in Allscripts Developer Program (10/15/2014)

Penn. data breach caused by hacking of third-party vendor (10/15/2014)

Maine collaborative receives $50K for health informatics initiative (10/15/2014)

AMA releases blueprint for MU program (10/15/2014)

University of New Mexico awarded $15M to expand telehealth (10/14/2014)

Email hacking source of UC Davis breach (10/14/2014)

Partners, Sunquest collaboration to advance genomic testing (10/14/2014)

Google is testing physician video chat service (10/14/2014)

VA telehealth services reached 690K veterans in FY14 (10/14/2014)

N.C. breach impacts more than 2K patients (10/14/2014)

ONC gets new privacy officer (10/14/2014)

Exostar Obtains $5 Million Investment for their Growing Healthcare Business (10/14/2014)

Allscripts FollowMyHealth Achieve now generally available; leverages consumer devices for better population health management (10/14/2014)

The Asian Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Market Estimated to Grow to $2,328.0 million by 2018 - New Report by MicroMarket Monitor (10/14/2014)

Hidden savings in concierge medicine (10/14/2014)

CDC to offer more Ebola training to healthcare industry (10/14/2014)

HITRUST piloting early cyberthreat warning system (10/13/2014)

Calif. HIX awards $184M in no-bid contracts (10/13/2014)

Editorial: Americans ill-informed about ACA thanks to Democrats, Republicans (10/13/2014)

ONC announces new round of fellows (10/13/2014)

RTI awarded contract to create roadmap for national health IT safety center (10/13/2014)

Oschner is first system to link its EHR with Apple HealthKit (10/13/2014)

Texas health worker diagnosed with Ebola (10/13/2014)

Nursing home chain to pay $38M settlement for improper billing, poor care (10/11/2014)

Dallas hospital defends treatment of Ebola patient (10/11/2014)

Prime Healthcare to acquire six hospitals (10/11/2014)

‘Stand out’ wearables that work with Apple’s health app (10/11/2014)

NIH unveils major big data initiative (10/11/2014)

Class action lawsuit filed against CHS (10/10/2014)

ONC to Congress: HIT adoption strong, but interoperability struggles persist (10/10/2014)

A big week (10/10/2014)

Balancing data analytics with patient privacy (10/09/2014)

$1.6M AHRQ grant to investigate health IT communication (10/09/2014)

NCOA and U. of Illinois to establish family caregiving research center (10/09/2014)

Aramark opens innovation center in N.C. (10/09/2014)

FTC, ONC collaborating on HIT competition (10/09/2014)

EHR interoperability survey: Providers struggling, not optimistic (10/09/2014)

2014 HCLF in review: Energizing and insightful (10/09/2014)

Wal-Mart elimination of insurance may signal move to single-payer model (10/08/2014)

Texas Ebola patient dies, another may be infected (10/08/2014)

Public comment sought on EHR cert. final rule test procedures (10/08/2014)

Male docs receive vast majority of payments from drug companies (10/08/2014)

Massachusetts is first state to require price transparency (10/08/2014)

New version of HealthCare.gov goes live (10/08/2014)

HIMSS and AVIA Launch HX360™ to Improve Health Care Delivery through Emerging Technologies (10/08/2014)

Surescripts and Epic Improve Prescribing Accuracy and Efficiency with EHR-Integrated Electronic Prior Authorization (10/08/2014)

Global Home Healthcare Market To Grow Owing To Increased Use Of Healthcare Technologies From 2014 To 2020: Grand View Research, Inc. (10/08/2014)

Geisinger telemonitoring program achieved 3:1 ROI (10/08/2014)

Groups press Congress for action on FDASIA (10/08/2014)

ProVation Order Sets Named Overall Best Performer Among Order Set Solutions in KLAS Clinical Decision Support Report (10/08/2014)

SelfEcho Launches Pilot Study of New Mental Healthcare Mobile Platform Designed to Enhance Patient Treatment and Practice Management (10/08/2014)

Technology is only part of the solution at Geisinger (10/08/2014)

Factoring workflow into big data tools (10/07/2014)

CMS reopens submission period for hardship exception applications (10/07/2014)

Data sharing policies for life science research working (10/07/2014)

Patient feedback holds promise of better record accuracy (10/07/2014)

Three-fourths of adults do not use wellness apps, trackers (10/07/2014)

Using health IT to improve patient engagement and communication (10/07/2014)

Mobile health: Make it personal (10/07/2014)

Take a more disciplined approach to QI efforts for better results (10/07/2014)

FDA strategic plan includes focus on health IT (10/07/2014)

AHRQ awards $1.6M for study on communication technology in care (10/07/2014)

Walmart dives deeper into healthcare (10/06/2014)

Texas hospital faces criticism over handling of Ebola patient (10/06/2014)

2,610 hospitals hit with 30-day readmission penalties (10/06/2014)

How Montefiore Pioneer ACO saved $24M last year (10/06/2014)

Flannery tapped to lead GE’s $18.2B healthcare operation (10/06/2014)

How to improve care transition safety (10/06/2014)

Addressing low health literacy for better outcomes (10/06/2014)

Lowering the barriers to information exchange (10/06/2014)

AHRQ offers ‘snapshots’ into states’ progress on care quality (10/06/2014)

Tripathi on JASON; keeping policy on pace with technology (10/06/2014)

2014 cert final rule strives for flexibility, interoperability (10/06/2014)

Tech error linked to Ebola patient discharge (10/04/2014)

Big data: Finding the signal in the noise (10/04/2014)

Editorial: Let vets receive care where they choose (10/04/2014)

HealthCare.gov will allow consumers to “window shop” (10/04/2014)

Facebook eyes expansion into healthcare (10/04/2014)

ONC exodus continues; Murphy headed to IBM (10/03/2014)

Walgreens Partners with the Department of Veterans Affairs to Expand Veterans Access to Flu and Other Recommended Vaccinations (10/03/2014)

SMC Partners Announces Partnership with PilotFish, the Leader in Healthcare Integration Engine Solutions (10/03/2014)

EHR error tied to Ebola patient discharge (10/03/2014)

Study: Virtual wards do not move dial on readmissions (10/03/2014)

HIMSS to HHS: Time to reset health IT expectations (10/03/2014)

'Reenvisioning care for the chronically ill' (10/03/2014)

2014 digital funding tops $3B (10/02/2014)

SMC Partners Announces Partnership with PilotFish, the Leader in Healthcare Integration Engine Solutions (10/02/2014)

CVS Health Insights Report Tackles Complex Issue of Medication Adherence (10/02/2014)

Value-based healthcare is rising, but is it making a difference? (10/01/2014)

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