The False Dilemmas of the Fifth Circuit’s HIPAA Ruling
The Fifth Circuit’s black and white reasoning guts the idea of flexibility that undergirds the HIPAA security rule.
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Read more: Closing the Electronic Health Record Usability Gap Closing the Electronic Health Record Usability Gap
Two recent studies on the usability of electronic health records (EHRs) use the same standardized metric report, but come to very different conclusions.
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Read more: Practice Fusion: it’s data use, not de-identification, that matters Practice Fusion: it’s data use, not de-identification, that matters
By Leslie Francis Practice Fusion, an electronic health record (EHR) vendor, just settled with the Department of Justice to pay a $145 million fine for alleged kickbacks from an unnamed pharmaceutical company. The DOJ contended that the company had taken kickbacks in exchange for including practice alerts to encourage physicians to prescribe opioids. But paid-for prescription alerts…
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Read more: What Should Happen to our Medical Records When We Die? What Should Happen to our Medical Records When We Die?
In the next 200 years, at least 20 billion people will die — and the issue of how best to manage their posthumous medical records is unclear.
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Read more: Apple’s mHealth Rules Fear to Tread Where Our Privacy Laws Fall Short Apple’s mHealth Rules Fear to Tread Where Our Privacy Laws Fall Short
By Nicolas Terry On September 9 Apple is hosting its ‘Wish We Could Say More’ event. In the interim we will be deluged with usually uninformed speculation about the new iPhone, an iWatch wearable, and who knows what else. What we do know, because Apple announced it back in June, is that iOS 8, Apple’s mobile…
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Read more: More Bad News on Electronic Health Records More Bad News on Electronic Health Records
By David Orentlicher During the debate over the Affordable Care Act, the Obama administration and other proponents of electronic health records (EHRs) cited a RAND study projecting cost-savings of $80 billion a year from EHRs. More recent data have cast doubt on those estimates. In March, for example, a study in Health Affairs found that…