health 2.0 news from FierceHealthIT
NewsGovernment's push to unleash health data 'transformative' (cont.)
FHIT: What is the biggest barrier to true adoption of IT in healthcare today? Scrimshire: I could say consumer apathy. Regulations have a part to play in stifling innovation, but that is changing. As Read more...
Government's push to unleash health data 'transformative'
Since 2008, HealthCamp's worldwide gatherings have provided a unique venue for people to discuss issues and challenges facing the healthcare industry, as well as how to best to resolve those issues. Read more...
When it comes to quality, word-of-mouth just doesn't cut it
Wednesday morning in New York, attendees at the Strategic Social Media in Healthcare conference will hear from the Pew Internet & American Life Project about how to engage "health Read more...
Telemed, remote monitoring, robotics, social media represent true health reform
Finally, someone said it. "[P]ublic discourse on health reform is almost entirely focused on the whole [the unsustainable costs and inadequate health outcomes] at the expense of a focus on the parts Read more...
Federal CTO encourages innovation in health IT
The Obama administration wants federal health IT funding to jump-start innovation in health IT, not just support the installation of existing technologies. "It is more important for us to create the Read more...
FDA could regulate aspects of health IT, health 2.0
Here's a bit of news sure to be unpopular at the third-annual Health 2.0 Conference that's set to begin Tuesday in San Francisco (without FierceHealthIT present, unfortunately): The FDA has scheduled Read more...
Health 2.0 can pose risks to providers
In the past, if a doctor notated that a patient was "CLL" ("chronic low-life") or "LOBNH" ("lights on but nobody home"), it was entirely possible that nobody would ever see it. But if such habits Read more...
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