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Now here’s a pretty how-to-do for HIPAA lawbreakers. According to a new appellate decision in California, people convicted of accessing patient records illegally can be punished whether or not they knew it was illegal. The case, United States v. Zhou, concerned the acts of one Huping Zhou, a former research assistant in rheumatology at the [...]
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I was sitting in a session at a conference recently that included a representative from a large pharma company. The actual individual and the pharma company are unimportant, but I thought that the comment they made was quite interesting. I don’t think I should have been surprised, because you can turn anything into pharma if [...]
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In the comments of a post by Dr. Gregg, someone made a really interesting case for going with an EMR VAR instead of the EMR vendor itself. Of course, this commenter was named “EMRVAR” which probably means they come from a VAR. So, you have to take these comments with a grain of salt, but [...]
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I had a really great conversation with Shahid Shah, Jenny Laurello and John Moore at Health 2.0 about the bubble that we’re sitting in right now. John Moore’s response to my question, “When do you think the bubble will pop?” was priceless: “Which bubble?” Yes, we might be seeing multiple bubbles in healthcare IT: EHR, [...]
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One movement that I and I’m sure many of you have seen unfolding by HHS and ONC in particular is what Todd Park calls Data Liberacion. As Todd Park has moved to CTO of the US, I expect he’s going to take the data liberation movement beyond healthcare. The latest addition to the Healthcare Data [...]
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