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> A group of Maine health care providers have raised $4 million to begin building a statewide electronic health record system. Read more...

As we've reported on at length here in FierceHealthIT, vendors and providers are growing increasingly interested in methods for managing chronic diseases remotely. And the juggernaut continues to Read more...

Without a doubt, there are a number of good reasons why RHIOs/HIEs should exist. Certainly, it can improve overall patient care if all of the providers a patient is likely to see have the same Read more...

Last week I had the chance to attend the VHA's annual leadership conference in Denver. Aside from being wowed by the civic energy and natural beauty of Denver--which seems like a city on the move!--I was a bit …

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In the past, the HIPAA-based privacy officer job has been just what it sounded like--to make sure companies complied with the law. Lately, though, the job has been expanding into new territory, including day-to-day operational issues and training. And as new privacy issues emerge--surrounding everything from PHRs and RHIOs--things should get even more complicated. Article

Federal efforts to build out a national EMR infrastructure may be doomed if the government doesn't do a better job with privacy protections, says one writer. Despite evidence piling up that poorly thought-out privacy protections won't fly--and that Americans are very sensitive about the issue--HHS and other government bodies aren't taking the issue seriously, says Todd Sloane of Modern Healthcare. Article

Well, if the suspense has been eating you up inside, help may be on the way. By the end of this week, HHS should announce an acting National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. That's the target--specifically Friday Sept. 22--identified by David Brailer, M.D., the first person to hold the job and head of the search process. "The acting coordinator is already in government," Brailer said recently in an exclusive interview with Health Data Management. "It's been harder to …

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