Biography for Dan Bowman
Dan Bowman serves as senior editor of all of Fierce's Health IT publications (FierceHealthIT, FierceMobileHealthcare, FierceEMR and FierceMedicalImaging), and contributes to Fierce's other healthcare publications. Prior to joining FierceMarkets in 2008, Dan worked as a sports copy editor for several newspapers, including the Washington Post and the Washington Times. He's a huge basketball fan (playing and watching), religiously follows the Knicks and loves a good book. He's based at FierceMarkets' main office in Washington, D.C., and can be reached at dbowman@fiercemarkets.com. You can also follow his tweets @FierceHealthIT and find him on LinkedIn.
Articles by Dan Bowman
Haphazard IT implementation increases potential for patient risk
There's a greater potential for patient harm when hospitals do not plan technology implementation, according to research published in the March issue of the American Journal of Managed Care.
Hospital CIOs skeptical about ICD-10 benefits
Most hospital CIOs say the ICD-10 delay was warranted, according to the results of a recent survey, but many executives still plan to push forward with the coding implementation as if the deadline
Preliminary iEHR to roll out in 2014
Medical facilities in San Antonio and Hampton Roads, Va., will launch a preliminary version of the integrated electronic health record created by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the
Med schools prep students to avoid device distractions
No doubt computers, smartphones and tablets have helped physicians improve access to information and, in turn, care delivery. For patients meeting with technology-armed docs, however, there can be a
Online databases display cancer cells' sensitivities to drugs
Personalized cancer care received another shot in the arm this week when researchers published free online databases outlining potential cancer vulnerabilities to various drugs. The databases were
Spending on security of health data breaches to hit $70B by 2015
With the cost of healthcare data breaches continuing to rise year after year, it shouldn't come as a surprise that spending on the security of that information is estimated to hit $40 billion this
Effective health IT execs must communicate, motivate colleagues
Between Meaningful Use, HIPAA updates and ICD-10, hospital technology executives are hardly at a loss to fill time these days. Still, both chief information officers and chief medical informatics
Social media's influence continues to grow in healthcare
As social media continues to grow as a force in healthcare, more and more professionals are beginning to take notice. Case in point, in a survey of managed care executives at a recent forum in Fort
Looming medical device tax could mean thousands of jobs lost
The 2.3 percent medical device tax set to go into effect in January 2013 could result in the loss of close to 39,000 jobs and $8 billion in economic output, a report published this week from the
FTC privacy proposal could serve as model for future HIPAA updates
Consumers must have an up-front option regarding the shared use of their personal information, the Federal Trade Commission argues in a report published this week. While the privacy framework
