Two health information exchange organizations have issued a white paper with a framework to improve patient matching without the use of a national patient identifier system. 

The National Institute of Standards and Technology recently released the final draft of its report on de-identification of personal information.

It was another busy week for Clinical Innovation + Technology with reporting from HIMSS' Big Data & Healthcare Analytics Forum as well as the November meeting of the Health IT Policy Committee, which addressed the final rules for Meaningful Use Stage 3 and the Certified EHR 2015 Edition, and the committee's report to Congress on interoperability. 

The Certified EHR 2015 Edition final rule is part of a wider effort to achieve better care, smarter spending and healthier people, said Elise Sweeney Anthony, senior policy analyst at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, speaking about the rule at the November Health IT Policy Committee.

The White House has released a set of privacy principles that will govern the Precision Medicine Initiative. 

Meaningful Use has served its purpose and it's time for a new plan, according to John Halamka, MD, CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, writing on his blog, Life as a Healthcare CIO.

The November Health IT Policy Committee meeting included a discussion on the reasoning behind the Meaningful Use Stage 3 final rule.

BOSTON—Analytics is not a strategy, said Nicholas Marko, MD, Geisinger Health System’s chief data officer, speaking at the Big Data & Healthcare Analytics Forum.