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The federal agency wants to share the anonymous DNA blood samples of half a million veterans for use in research.

HIMSS is accepting speaking proposals for five one-day events on March 5 as part of the Annual Conference. The deadline to submit a proposal is Nov. 1.

Cleveland Clinic, JumpStart, and Plug and Play create accelerator focused on biotech and digital health innovation in Cleveland’s Global Center for Health Innovation.

J. Craig Venter’s company tests healthy consumers, something that’s not been done before, he says.

HIMSS is accepting speaker proposals for the Cloud Computing Forum in Las Vegas on March 5.

Developing sound data models is challenging enough, but operationalizing them can be even trickier.

[East Anglia, UK] Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust has appointed the first Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO) to help drive use of digital technology and information, improving outcomes for patients. Dr Toral Thomas, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist at the trust, has now taken over the new role. He will be focusing on improving the use of the Electronic Patient Record system and extending e-Prescribing services. In their latest report, Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspectors said the trust should further review the ‘performance’ of the EPR in order to ensure all employees have access to medical records: “When we last inspected the trust in July 2016 they had introduced a new electronic records system. We were very concerned about the performance of this system. Since then the trust had undertaken various improvement initiatives and some progress had been made. “However, at this inspection we observed that it remained difficult to establish a contemporaneous record of patient care in some services. We also observed that technical problems with the system, particularly in community services, meant staff could not always access records. “We acknowledge the trust had attempted to resolve these issues but we remained concerned about the risks to safe patient care.” Dr Bohdan Solomka, Medical Director, said the development of the new CCIO role ‘directly responds’ to concerns previously raised by the CQC: “Toral will focus on what we can to do help our frontline clinicians use technology to improve the quality of everything we do and the care which our patients receive. “He will act as a conduit between the IT team and our frontline clinicians, who use the systems every day, and will feedback their views on our current systems as well as ideas for improvements.” Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust is the seventh largest mental health trust in the UK, providing services for adults and children across Norfolk and Suffolk. Dr Thomas said: “The technology will not replace the kindness and dedicated service we provide, but will hopefully serve to enhance it. “In my new role I want to help take the great ideas which staff have on the clinical frontline forward and find ways to share some of the fantastic practice that happens every day throughout our Trust.”

Move bolsters Imprivata’s authentication and access management platform for healthcare, means more focus on population health management for Caradigm.

While the launch of the new EHR will take just 18 months, the whole system overhaul will take much longer.

The embattled company is hoping to prove its innocence and regain the trust lost by continued reports that the company may have ties to Russia.