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Convoluted code mappings to ICD-10 could be costly
New research from the University of Illinois at Chicago illustrates yet another reason to get a jump on ICD-10 implementation: Mapping the 50,000 new medical diagnosis codes and 70,000 new procedure...
VA medical center faces lawsuit after data breach
The William Jennings Bryan Dorn VA medical Center in Columbia, S.C., faces a federal lawsuit following a breach that impacted more than 7,400 veterans.
Patient groups call for Direct to help accelerate data exchange
The Direct standard, which enables participants to send authenticated and encrypted health data directly to trusted recipients online, could help to accelerate health information exchange efforts, according to a pair of consumer coalitions.
As HIPAA concerns persist, vendors ready themselves
While the most recent incarnation of the HIPAA likely will provide plenty of privacy headaches both for providers and vendors in the industry, support for HIPAA seems to be growing in the cloud vendor community.
Cancer researchers look to technology, software to make sense of big data
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have used "powerful algorithms" developed by computer scientists at Brown University to assemble the most complete genetic profile yet of acute myeloid leukemia, highlighting the role that technology plays in making sense of giant datasets required for medical research.
Not even IT eases the difficult care coordination process
This week, FierceHealthcare reported on healthcare's "dirty little secret" about coordinated care: it's not very well coordinated and no one is responsible for it. What's more, technology often can make the care coordination process more difficult.
HHS expands access to government claims data
Healthcare researchers and entrepreneurs will get easier access to public payer claims data under an expanded partnership between the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and data analytics firm Archimedes.
Why hospital CIOs must be involved in facility planning
For hospitals that are part of what Witt/Kieffer healthcare IT recruiter Bonnie Siegel calls the "building boom," CIOs need to be right in the thick of all planning efforts. In a post at...
Collaborative diabetes prevention effort taps into artificial intelligence
Diabetes prevention is the impetus behind a new collaboration announced this week between New York University, NYU Langone Medical Center and Independence Blue Cross (IBC) in which researchers will try to take advantage of artificial intelligence for disease prediction.
Rely on governance, tools to keep clinical decision support up to date
Beyond implementing clinical decision support tools, keeping the content current remains a weighty responsibility, one that must be tackled with proper governance and technology, according to an...
