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Eric Liederman of Kaiser Permanente gave an interesting talk at HIMSS11 on protecting privacy without harming patients.  It is not uncommon for many audit trails to be full of non-essential information and not helpful in investigating security and privacy breaches.  The HIPAA Security Rule requires, among other things, a security risk analysis and the implementation of…

At HIMSS11, NCQA presented a session on the NCQA Patient-Centered Medical Home Standards and its alignment with meaningful use.  It also advocates the use of electronic health records in implementing its PCMH model and that it would assist providers in achieving meaningful use.  NCQA recently released its 2011 PCMH model as of January 31, 2011.…

Every once in a while we try to provide some information that is interesting, helpful and a little different than our usual fair. I have attached a link to an article provided by nursingschools.net describing amazing emerging advances in medical technology. For the readers who would like more of this type of information, I have added nursing.net…

The Commonwealth has developed a series of webinars, FAQ’s, and other useful information to prepare Pennsylvania health care providers for electronic health record implementation and adoption.  It also includes information from the Pennsylvania Regional Extension Center – PA REACH East and PA REACH West. 
 
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PA REACH West and East have recently announced that they are, at the present time, offering no-cost assistance to physician practices for participating in their program.  Benefits include selecting the EHR solution for your practice (which is certified under the meaningful use program), training your staff on the EHR solution, helping your practice achieve meaningful use…

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A report by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology …

According to the National Cancer Institute ("NCI"), the caBIG® Clinical Information Suite Project is available to all, free of charge, a series of software specifications and open source software modules for an oncology-extended electronic health record ("EHR") capability through NCI’s Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG®) program.  

It is anticipated that this program will benefit health care provider organizations in the field of ambulatory cancer care seeking to acquire or enhance their existing EHR functionality  as well as EHR vendors.

Additional benefits include:

  • Improved care to cancer patients and clinician efficiency
  • Interoperability in, and between, research and care.

For more information, please access the following page:

https://wiki.nci.nih.gov/display/caEHR

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