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October 2015

Cybersecurity, patient safety in the spotlight (10/30/2015)

CMS reports smooth ICD-10 transition to date (10/29/2015)

Senate passes CISA for coordinated cyberthreat sharing (10/29/2015)

Aramark grows its healthcare business (10/29/2015)

Cleveland Clinic issues Top 10 innovations for 2016 (10/29/2015)

Ambulance communication system wins Cleveland Clinic challenge (10/28/2015)

S.C. hospital employee fired for inappropriate record access, fraudulent claims (10/28/2015)

Leapfrog: Patient safety improvements are hit-and-miss (10/28/2015)

Truman Medical Centers Announces Expanded Strategic Relationship With Cerner (10/28/2015)

EHR data fuels QI for neurology conditions (10/28/2015)

CEA develops voluntary privacy guidelines for consumer wellness devices (10/27/2015)

AMA, MedStar framework spotlights EHR usability (10/27/2015)

Cerner, Truman Medical Centers partner for HIT innovation (10/27/2015)

CISA headed for Senate vote despite criticism (10/27/2015)

Patient portal study finds disparities in vulnerable populations (10/27/2015)

HIMSS, AHIMA, IHE collaboration produces guide for interoperability standards development (10/26/2015)

Three upgrades needed for future EHRs (10/26/2015)

Revenue, operating income increase for athenahealth in 3rd quarter (10/26/2015)

UCSF, Cisco partner on interoperability platform (10/23/2015)

Healthcare workers urged to care about each other in the ‘hospital of tomorrow’ (10/23/2015)

Athenahealth campaign demands better EHRs (10/23/2015)

Halamka on Stage 3: Time to move from regulation to merit (10/23/2015)

Survey shows information governance showing signs of maturity (10/23/2015)

Regenstrief, VA, IU collaboration to advance Precision Medicine effort (10/23/2015)

Senators introduce bipartisan bills to expedite FDA approval for medical devices (10/22/2015)

Three stories highlight HIT's impact this week (10/22/2015)

SmartShopper program offers incentives to choose less expensive care (10/22/2015)

Report: Virtual health can help manage looming PCP shortage (10/22/2015)

iSpecimen and the Delaware Health Information Network (DHIN) Announce Novel Program to Support Medical Research (10/22/2015)

Home Care Alliance of Massachusetts Launches HIT Adoption Initiative (10/22/2015)

Dartmouth-Hitchcock drops out of Pioneer model (10/21/2015)

AHRQ names head of Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement (10/21/2015)

Yale-New Haven achieves Stage 7 (10/21/2015)

Pa. patient fights for her allergy records (10/20/2015)

Department of Defense Certifies the Robust Security of the Vocera Communication Platform (10/20/2015)

New Jersey Health Care Organization Enhances Patient Experience with Health Record Aggregation Services (10/20/2015)

HIT skills a top draw for hospital leaders (10/20/2015)

WEDI to advance genomic data exchange with new workgroup (10/20/2015)

KLAS interoperability report puts athenahealth, Epic on top (10/20/2015)

Johns Hopkins, Microsoft partner to improve HIT, ICU patient safety (10/20/2015)

Townsend elected ACS President-Elect (10/19/2015)

Study finds EHRs can be behavioral health integration barrier (10/19/2015)

ONC guidance coming to support final criteria rule (10/19/2015)

Cyberattacks to cost $305B over next five years (10/16/2015)

U.S. News & World Report names 159 Most Connected hospitals (10/16/2015)

5 ways hospitals can overcome the “weekend effect” (10/16/2015)

It's a rocky road to data analytics implementation (10/16/2015)

Consumers choose top hospitals (10/16/2015)

Pulse Systems, Inc., Strengthens Its Cloud Practice Management and EHR Position in the U.S. (10/16/2015)

Roadmap feedback and mixed bag on cybersecurity (10/16/2015)

EHR vendors fire back on information blocking (10/15/2015)

CHIME names 2015 Innovator (10/15/2015)

AAFP seeks urgency for interoperability (10/14/2015)

Texas provider takes the lead on plan to share cybersecurity threat info (10/14/2015)

NIH grant to help UCSF accelerate mobile health research (10/14/2015)

UA Eller Research Team Receives $1.4 Million Grant to Create Free Health Tool (10/14/2015)

Virginia Tech and Leidos partner on critical healthcare research (10/14/2015)

Calif. amends its data notification law (10/14/2015)

AHA report says interoperability roadmap isn't enough (10/13/2015)

VA awards $100M contract for standard terminology (10/13/2015)

Cerner sets up production version of FHIR standard in its EHR (10/13/2015)

New NIST guide focuses on user-centered design for EHRs (10/12/2015)

Class-action lawsuit filed against NY's largest insurance providers (10/12/2015)

Harvard Clinical Research Institute Cuts Event Adjudication Timeline by 30% (10/12/2015)

Critical access hospital closures on the rise (10/12/2015)

Bill focuses on HIT transparency to drive interoperability (10/09/2015)

National HIT Week packs in the headlines (10/09/2015)

New AMA workgroup to focus on telehealth CPT coding (10/08/2015)

New portal to clear up HIPAA regs for mobile developers (10/08/2015)

Dell to buy EMC in $67B deal (10/08/2015)

Cerner Clients Test SMART on FHIR Apps Within EHR (10/08/2015)

Two win HIMSS Enterprise Davies Awards (10/07/2015)

Millennials most likely to use tech for health, wellness (10/07/2015)

ONC panelists say drive up research participation by increasing value (10/07/2015)

Cerner to Highlight Advancements in Interoperability Showcase Secure Data Sharing at CHC (10/07/2015)

Final Interoperability Roadmap released; paves way for patient-centered care (10/07/2015)

CMS finally issues MU Stage 3 rule (10/06/2015)

Innovation Lab Introduces Boston Scientific, Dell, and Deloitte as Partners in Health Care Innovation at Open House (10/06/2015)

Rush-Copley Medical Center Selects Merge Healthcare to Further Enhance Patient Care (10/06/2015)

EHNAC Partners with the Healthcare Administrative Technology Association (HATA) (10/06/2015)

Workers paying dearly for doctor wait times, other ambulatory ‘opportunity costs’ (10/06/2015)

Mercy's Virtual Care Center to focus on telemedicine, innovation (10/06/2015)

AHRQ offers facts and figures to support its ongoing work (10/06/2015)

ATA pushes interstate licensure, coverage (10/06/2015)

AMA seeks automatic hardship exemption for those who couldn't attest MU this year (10/05/2015)

Partnerships drive data analytics ahead (10/05/2015)

Orion Health Awarded Defense Healthcare Management System Modernization Program Subcontract (10/05/2015)

Philips appoints Jan Kimpen as Chief Medical Officer (10/05/2015)

ONC holds fifth Consumer HIT Summit; there's a 'revolution happening' (10/05/2015)

Data access barriers are everywhere, says patient, PhD candidate (10/05/2015)

Patil says consumers are ready for, expect data science (10/05/2015)

ONC shares progress through several engagement initiatives (10/02/2015)

The transition finally happens (10/02/2015)

Research finds significant overlap between company boards and academia (10/02/2015)

CVS Health Partners with MassChallenge and Rock Health (10/01/2015)

New partnerships strengthen CVS Health's Boston ties (10/01/2015)

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