Health Care Stakeholders React to Final HIPAA Omnibus Rule

Several health care industry groups and experts have offered their input on HHS' new final omnibus rule, which expands and updates HIPAA regulations. Representatives of the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Health Information Management Association and the Center for Democracy & Technology were among those who offered comments on the omnibus rule. MedPage Today et al.

Draft Bill Could Govern Storage, Sharing of App Users' Health Data

Rep. Hank Johnson has released draft legislation that would regulate how mobile applications collect consumer data. Although the draft bill does not specifically mention health data, it could govern the storage and dissemination of such information. Modern Healthcare, Computerworld.

State CIOs' Priorities for 2013 Include Health IT-Related Objectives

As part of its federal policy priorities for 2013, the National Association of State Chief Information Officers aims to promote greater interoperability of Medicaid IT systems and break ground on a public safety wireless broadband network. FierceCIO, Government Health IT.

Medical Specialists Pushing for More Tailored Electronic Health Record Systems

Thomas Hambrick, an ob-gyn in Oakland, Calif., Michael Leu, a pediatrician at Seattle Children's Hospital, Lana Lowry of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Jeff Wall, a physician executive at Cerner spoke with iHealthBeat about how electronic health record systems could be better tailored for medical specialists.

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Approximately How Old Are the Computer Systems Used in Your Physician Practice?

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Forty-one percent of surveyed physicians say that the computers in their practice are one to two years old, while 4.4% say that the computers in their practice are more than six years old, according to a recent report by Practice Fusion, a provider of Web-based electronic health record technology.

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