Leveraging Technology
The Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee still plans to propose legislation this year to advance the interoperability of electronic health records, one of many reasons the administration should wait to finalize Stage 3 meaningful use requirements under the Medicare and Medicaid…
Representatives from selected non-federal initiatives working to facilitate electronic health record interoperability say key challenges include insufficient standards, variation in state privacy rules, patient record matching, customization and other costs, and governance/trust-related issues,…
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology yesterday released for comment draft updates to its list of “best available” standards and implementation specifications for interoperable clinical health information technology.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), despite calls for a delay from the AHA and others, today moved ahead with rules to permit unlicensed devices to operate on the same frequencies as hospitals' Wireless Medical Telemetry Service (WMTS), which is used by various hospital devices for patient…