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Policy Committee Work Group on Meaningful Use

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Meeting on Health Data Exchange Issues, Policies

Washington, D.C.

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Conference on National Health Policy Issues

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CHCF's Top Ten of 2011

CHCF's most popular publications last year looked at the benefits of using health IT to expand access and improve medical care, the costs of health care, and a host of other important issues.

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FDA's Medical Device Tracking Plan Remains Stalled at OMB

FDA's proposal to track medical devices with unique device identifiers has been stalled at the Office of Management and Budget since last summer. Patient advocates say that delaying implementation of UDIs could pose patient safety risks. OMB officials have not given a reason for the delay but say it is not uncommon for the agency to extend reviews of certain regulations. Politico.

CSC Offers Lessons From Meaningful Use Stage 1, Predictions for Stage 2

A Computer Sciences Corporation report looks at lessons learned from Stage 1 of the meaningful use program. The report predicts that Stage 2 criteria will be more stringent, with Stage 1 menu options becoming requirements under Stage 2. Health Data Management, CSC report.

Report: CIOs Concerned With Data Entry, Costs Associated With Tablets

A new report by BizTechReports finds that many hospital and clinic CIOs consider tablet computers to be difficult to integrate with existing health IT systems. The report offers recommendations to make tablets more useful in clinical environments. InformationWeek, NextGov.

NIH Launches Website To Boost Knowledge About Clinical Trials

NIH has created a new website designed to encourage more people to participate in clinical trials by providing resources for locating such trials. The site also contains educational materials to help physicians talk to patients about clinical trials. Modern Healthcare et al.

Study Sees Benefits in Creating Database for Emergency Surgery

A study in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons suggests that an emergency general surgery registry could improve patient outcomes and advance research in the same way that the National Trauma Data Bank improved trauma care. FierceHealthIT, ACS release.

Center for Democracy & Technology's McGraw Discusses Health Data Privacy Challenges

Deven McGraw, director of the Health Privacy Project at the Center for Democracy and Technology, spoke with iHealthBeat about the challenges of protecting health data privacy.

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DATA POINTS

What Percentage of U.S. Adults Want To Keep Reform Law's Online Insurance Exchanges?

Fifty-nine percent of surveyed U.S. adults want to keep the federal health reform law's online, state-based health insurance exchanges, compared with 16% who want to repeal the provision of the law and 25% who are unsure, according to a new poll from Harris Interactive/HealthDay.

PERSPECTIVES

Meaningful Use in Year Two and Beyond: Informing the Efforts of RECs

by Christopher Harle and Nir Menachemi

Given the many known obstacles, it's not surprising that participation in the first year of the meaningful use incentive program was relatively low. Regional extension centers must work to better disseminate information aimed at reducing physicians' uncertainty about electronic health record adoption.

COMMENTS (2)

"I'm sure all RECs appreciate the supportive information. I circulated this article link among our entire REC team, and will do so on the HITRC, and on my independent REC blog. It's been a contentious two years, and will only get more contentious, ..."

- Bobby Gladd

FEATURES

UC-Merced Students Use Telehealth To Treat Diabetes

by Alice Daniel, iHealthBeat Contributing Correspondent

Business students at the University of California-Merced are embarking on a telehealth initiative to monitor patients with gestational diabetes in the Central Valley. The project aims to target women who don't have adequate access to medical care.