At last week’s Meaningful Use Workgroup meeting, Leslie Kelly Hall and I reviewed the HIT Standards Committee recommendations for patient generated healthcare data from online applications and devices.
Health Technology
Big Data in the eye: Contact lenses containing microsensors
By Mark Healey
Big Data: Johnson & Johnson pledges transparency in clinical trial data
I-PASS electronic nightly family signout: Empowering families of hospitalized children
By Alisa Khan
Is agile management a medical device innovation solution?
By: Rod Cain
Nearly 30 device makers pledge to share data to make patients safer
The growing Patients Safety Movement has more than doubled its commitments from medtech companies over the course of a single year, with nearly 30 companies promising so far to make the data gathered by their devices available to anyone interested in improving patient care.
BREAKING: Philips Healthcare signs Patient Safety Movement’s data openness pledge
Technology giant Philips Healthcare (NYSE:PHG) is 1 of the newest companies pledging to open up the data gathered by its medical devices in the interest of patient safety, MassDevice.com learned today.
Tapping the clinical record for research: Q&A with a clinical intelligence specialist
By Tom Ulrich
Last month, we told you about cTAKES, which can read notes from clinical records and turn them into structured data that can be used for research on drug interactions, risk factors, clinical phenotyping and much more.
Health Canada to make medical device clinical trial data publicly available
By Stewart Eisenhart, Emergo Group
Canadian medical device market regulators have begun making some information on medical device clinical trials available upon request in an effort to boost public access to such data.
Health Canada’s new policy entails sharing information including:
Think you have strep? Answer 2 questions and check the big data
Lessons learned from the health insurance exchange launch
CIOs face many pressures – increase scope, reduce timelines, trim budgets. After nearly 20 years as a CIO, I’ve learned a great deal about project success factors.
When faced with go live pressures, I tell my staff the following:
"If you go live months late when you’re ready, no one will ever remember.