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NewsDespite better Internet access, web searches for health information plateauing
The percentage of Americans seeking health information from sources other than their physician fell to 50 percent in 2010 from 56 percent in 2007, according to a new study by the Center for Studying Read more...
Civil Rights data access proposal unrealistic, expensive, CHIME says
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) has asked the federal Office of Civil Rights (OCR) to reconsider its proposal for requiring that healthcare providers and insurers Read more...
IT could compensate for higher-than-expected care fragmentation
Interoperable IT could be just the thing to help healthcare reduce the expensive duplication and potential adverse events associated with fragmented care, according to just-published research from Read more...
Remote users often lax with health data protection
Thanks to mobility, cloud-based storage and web access to office databases, about two-thirds of working professionals have accessed "some type of sensitive data" outside of their offices within the Read more...
Unencrypted thumb drive compromises vets' health info
Unencrypted thumb drive. "Those three words don't make VA CIOs happy," said Veterans Affairs Department CIO Roger Baker during his monthly press briefing on data breaches. According to Baker, an Read more...
Still no consensus on patient use of Internet for health information
"I think patients are savvy enough to realize everything they read on the Internet is not the gospel and they should take it with a grain of salt," Charlotte, N.C., internist Dr. Marshall Silverman Read more...
Hospitals, insurers said to provide patients with similar wellness data
With so much health information still not interoperable, is it any surprise that there's bound to be a lot of duplicated data? A report from IDC says patients often get the same information on their Read more...
Health data experts call for updates to patient privacy regs
As hospitals and physicians transition to greater use of electronic patient data, it's becoming clear that the last generation of privacy laws may not be sufficient to deal with a world in which EMRs Read more...
Google Health allows users to upload scanned paper docs
One of the big limitations to electronic medical records of all stripes is coping with the trail of legacy-paper records that already exists when the digital system goes on place. Sure, it's possible Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: More Americans going online to find health information
Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project and the California HealthCare Foundation released a report that shows 61 percent of Americans have searched the web for health information. Read more...
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