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The complete 1000 Genomes Project is now available on Amazon Web Services as a publicly available data set, the largest collection of human genetics available to researchers worldwide, free of charge.
Healthcare information technology, data mining and data analytics are driving rapid advances in personalized medicine across the country and around the world. The work being done today on this front is but a thin slice of what is yet to come, experts say, and many predict vast advances in the next four to five years.
Despite delays, and billing glitches, progress is being made on the conversion. And there are benefits to the HIPAA 5010 mandate that healthcare entities will reap once they comply.
Heather Haugen, vice president of research at the Breakaway Group, a Xerox subsidiary, discusses some opportunities created by the ICD-10 delay in terms of clinical documentation and alignment with EHRs, controlling coders' learning curves and addressing anticipated productivity loss following the compliance deadline.
Heather Haugen, the Breakaway Group's vice president of research, explains how the healthcare industry has to change for ICD-10.
William Yasnoff, president of the Health Record Banking Alliance explains how the extensible service, MyDataCan, could be critical to facilitating our nation's health information infrastructure. But only if it the service is valuable enough to attract a large number of users.
Caregivers who talk with the patient about their care before, during and after care tend to improve outcomes and avoid readmissions. Technology can help improve how it's done -- and documented.
Wendy Whittington, MD, chief medical officer at Anthelio Healthcare Solutions, supports the adoption of health IT. But she warns that certain oversights during the implementation process could have adverse affects on patients.
The battle plan, fought on two fronts, yielded an early if tactical victory in the one-year compliance delay that HHS proposed last week. But is the AMA's war to oppose ICD-10 over?
HL7 – not just for IT anymore. That thinking is the catalyst behind a triptych of recent moves designed to open the standards process to more health professionals, notably caregivers.