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JUN

Interactive Policy Forum on Health Care, 'Big Data'

Washington, D.C.

JUN

Webinar About How Physicians Use Health IT

Online

JUN

Summit Explores Using Video Games in Health Care

Boston

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FROM THE FOUNDATION

Big Business, Little Data

A growing number of Californians are being sent to ambulatory surgery centers for a wide variety of procedures, yet little is known about the care they deliver because reporting is not required.

Keeping Track of Asthma

CHCF has made a second investment in Asthmapolis, a device that tracks asthma inhaler use and reports data through mobile phones to patients and doctors to better manage the disease.

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IOM Urges FDA To Boost Post-Approval Rx Drug Monitoring

An Institute of Medicine report recommends that FDA improve its processes for monitoring the safety of prescription drugs after they are approved. FDA currently uses IT initiatives like the Sentinel system to conduct post-approval monitoring of prescription drug safety. According to IOM, improvements in health IT and analytics could help advance such monitoring efforts. Reuters et al.

Analysis: More Studies on ClinicalTrials.gov, but Crucial Data Missing

A new analysis finds that more studies are being registered with ClinicalTrials.gov, but the website still is missing important data. Compared with the older studies on the site, a larger percentage of the newer studies failed to report their primary purposes, the analysis finds. MedPage Today.

HIMSS Plans To Launch Tool To Measure EHR Adoption Levels in U.K.

The Healthcare Information Management Systems Society and the United Kingdom's IT trade group BCS plan to introduce the HIMSS Analytics Electronic Medical Records Adoption Model to measure electronic health record adoption at U.K. hospitals. Healthcare IT News, CMIO.

Electronic Reminders, Texts Could Help Boost Medication Adherence

A review published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association finds that sending text messages and other electronic reminders could improve medication adherence in the short term, but the long-term effectiveness of the strategy is unclear. CMIO, FierceHealthIT.

SUNY Researchers Aim To Leverage Analytics Tools for MS Research

A new project led by researchers from the State University of New York-Buffalo aims to use data analytics technology from IBM and Revolution Analytics to identify various clinical, genetic and environmental factors that could play a role in multiple sclerosis. InformationWeek.

FDA Looking Into Use of Technology Tools To Help People Self-Diagnose, Obtain Medications

Marcie Bough of the American Pharmacists Association, Charles Daniels of the University of California-San Diego and Sandra Adamson Fryhofer, chair-elect of the American Medical Association's council on science and public health, spoke with iHealthBeat about how technology could expand the number of medications available without a prescription.

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DATA POINTS

What Are Consumers' Top Concerns About Sharing Health Information via Social Media?

When asked about their top concerns about using social media to share health information, 63% of U.S. consumers cited their health data being shared publicly and 57% cited their health data being hacked or leaked, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers' Health Research Institute survey.

FEATURES

Driving Interoperable Health Data Exchange Under HITECH

by Helen Pfister, Jonah Frohlich and Susan Ingargiola, Manatt Health Solutions

Recent federal regulations -- including the Stage 2 meaningful use and 2014 electronic health record standards and certification proposed rules -- are advancing HITECH's vision for an interoperable, nationwide health information network that improves the quality and efficiency of health care.

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"Re: ... the proposed rule sets forth a number of proposed vocabulary standards (e.g., LOINC, SNOMED-CT, ICD-9 and ICD-10, RxNorm and HCPCs).... Vocabulary standards are nomenclatures used to ensure that .... Most healthcare professionals do not un..."

- Deborah Kohn

PERSPECTIVES

Moving Federal Health Care Targets Becoming a Way of Life

by Fred Bazzoli

Last month, CMS pushed back for the second time the enforcement date for the transition to HIPAA 5010 transaction sets. Observers say the delay -- as well the extension for ICD-10 implementation-- raises questions about the validity of future federal deadlines.