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HIPAA audit: The 42 questions HHS might ask

HHS conducted it’s first-ever HIPAA audit in March. ComputerWorld reports on the The 42 questions HHS might have asked. It’s worth watching closely. Source: Fred Trotter through a link he saw on David Harlow’s healthcare law blog.

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Top healthcare and medicine blogs

Tim Gee wrote recently about eDrugSearch.com’s Healthcare 100 ranking of the world’s top English language blogs in health care and medicine. I was happy to see quite a few healthcare IT blogs (including this one, Tim’s, and a number of others that are in the HITSphere). The algorithm eDrugSearch.com uses is a mixture of Google PageRank, Bloglines Subscribers, Technorati Authority Ranking, and their own proprietary point system.

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What’s driving the ‘Driven’ approaches in software development?

A buddy of mine, Andy Glover, recently sent me a link to an SDTimes article (see page 3) which asks the question “are there real differences between methodologies, or is it just marketing?”. The article by Jennifer DeJong is pretty good but the pleasantly surprising part was that she picked my “Resume-driven Development” post. She wrote: Another variant of the “driven” theme is resume-driven development, or RDD. RDD is all about choosing a language not because it’s well suited to a particular project, but because acquiring skills in that language will help a developer bolster his or her resume.

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Google planning a PHR?

I’ve personally thought for months that Google was working on a medical search portal and mini PHR and some of those thoughts were confirmed when Fred Trotter sent me this link. Fred noted that Google became more specific regarding its healthcare plans and, in what should be surprise to no one, it sounds like they are planning a PHR.

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Telemedicine in a box

A buddy of mine told me about this product which seems to take the pain out of technology integration for telemedicine needed in remote healthcare visits. I like the idea a lot because it combines video, audio, and healthcare diagnostics into a single special purpose device with custom software to tie it all together. Here’s what they say about the offering: Televisit™ is a managed network that provides healthcare professionals with Telemedicine services that are quick to set up, easy to use, and require minimal capital investment.

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Disaster time prescription records

ICERx.org (In Case of Emergency Prescription Database), an online resource that provides licensed prescribers and pharmacists caring for disaster victims with secure access to a patient’s comprehensive medication history, has just been lanunched. ICERx.org (www.icerx.org) is a public service initiative created by AMA, Informed Decisions, the National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS), the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA), RxHub and SureScripts, as well as state Medicaid and other government agencies.

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Online Social Networking for Physicians

Dr. Subrahmanyam Karuturi has put up a nice list of Online Social Networking Sites for physicians. I had hear of Sermo a one or two others but the list is actually longer than I expected it to be. I wonder if anyone’s done any research on the value of these networks to physicians and see where there is more demand. Online sites like these are so easy to create these days that if we can get our tired and overworked physicians online to give them some relief it would be a good thing.

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Center for American Progress’ Health IT Report

The Center for American Progress released a new report about how to improve the American health care system through the use of health IT. Nothing ground-breaking but there are some good ideas expressed in a way that’s easy for policy officials to understand the importance of IT in healthcare. Of course, there’s little mention of the real barriers to use of IT in the healthcare industry, which is poor or non-existent incentives for practitioners.

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What if medical care came with a 90-day warranty?

Geisinger Health Systems is serious about improving the quality of care. This was in the New York Times today: What if medical care came with a 90-day warranty? That is what a hospital group in central Pennsylvania is trying to learn in an experiment that some experts say is a radically new way to encourage hospitals and doctors to provide high-quality care that can avoid costly mistakes.

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Disruptive Innovations in Health and Health Care Competition – Solutions People Want

I got a note this morning about $5 Million being made available to “Support Ideas That Transform Markets and Empower Consumers.” Here’s the story: “Disruptive Innovations in Health and Health Care” is an open source competition to identify ways in which the health and health care marketplace can offer services, tools and choices that consumers want-but are currently out of reach because of cost, complexity or because the right idea hasn’t come along.

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