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Utah data breach leads to CTO resignation, multi-pronged response
In the wake of a data breach that impacted almost 800,000 Utah residents, the state has begun a multi-pronged response including the resignation of the state’s chief technology officer (CTO).
On his blog, National Coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari, MD, said his office has created two new offices–the Office of the Chief Medical Officer and the Office of Consumer eHealth.
Emergency physicians at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania reduced abdominal CT scans approximately 10 percent after implementing an electronic accountability tool in the EMR and computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems, according to a study presented May 11 at the annual meeting of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.
Are state level health information exchanges already obsolete before sprinting out of the gates? Chris Dimick, writer at AHIMA, poses the question in an article published in
Journal of the American Health Information Management Association.
It’s no surprise that when a proposed rule on meaningful use is revealed, a litany of organizations want their voices heard. May 7 was the last day to submit comments to the Stage 2 meaningful use proposed rule to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and five organizations have joined the din of democratic speech on the legislation.
