EVENTS

MAY

Summit About Wireless Health Convergence

San Diego

MAY

Webinar About Health IT Privacy, Security Risks

Online

JUN

'Datapalooza' Conference on Health Data Tools

Washington, D.C.

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FROM THE FOUNDATION

All Over the Map

A newly updated interactive map unleashes data to highlight medical treatment variation across California. Now with breast cancer, prostate cancer, and spine procedures, this CHCF-sponsored research shows that practice patterns vary dramatically from place to place.

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ONC Seeks Nominations for Policy, Standards Committees

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has published a notice in the Federal Register requesting nominations by June 11 for members of the Health IT Policy and Standards committees. ONC said nominees should be knowledgeable about health IT privacy and security issues and have experience promoting the meaningful use program. Health Data Management et al.

EHR Tool Helps Improve Blood Sugar Control for Patients With Diabetes

At an American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists meeting last week, researchers presented a study finding that electronic health record-based insulin order sets helped improve glycemic control among hospitalized patients with diabetes. MedPage Today, FierceEMR.

Study IDs Characteristics of Physicians Who Use Certain Online Tools

A recent study finds that doctors who are young, male and have teaching hospital privileges are most likely to use certain Web-based communications tools. The study also finds that 81% of surveyed doctors used a portable device to go online in the previous six months. CMIO.

Report: Small Practices Should Consider Long-Term EHR Strategies

An IDC Health Insights report states that small physician practices should not let the meaningful use program shape their long-term plans for electronic health record adoption. The report also assesses 11 EHR products for small practices. Healthcare IT News, Health Data Management.

Maine To Launch Pilot of First U.S. Medical Image Sharing Network

HealthInfoNet, Maine's health information exchange, has launched a five-month pilot program to test the country's first medical image sharing network. Images in the archive will include CT scans, mammograms, MRIs and X-rays. Computerworld, InformationWeek.

University of California Spearheading New Initiative To Mine 'Big Data' in Health Care

NIH Director Francis Collins, Atul Butte of the Stanford School of Medicine, David Patterson of the University of California-Berkeley and Taylor Sittler of UC-San Francisco discussed new efforts to mine "big data" for health care and scientific research.

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DATA POINTS

How Has Online Access to Health Information Affected Consumers' Medical Knowledge?

Sixty-seven percent of consumers say that online access to medical data has made them better informed as patients, while 4% say that online access to medical data has made them misinformed, according to a survey conducted by IPSOS for Wolters Kluwer Health.

FEATURES

Integrated Health Systems Lead the Pack on Mobile Health

by Rebecca Vesely, iHealthBeat Contributing Reporter

Integrated health systems like Kaiser Permanente are way ahead of the curve in terms of mobile offerings. However, experts warn that patients should be aware of the rules and risks of carrying personal health data with them.

PERSPECTIVES

Gov't Promotes Consistent Approaches to Consumer and Health Data Privacy

by Deven McGraw

The health care sector should pay close attention to recent reports from the White House, the Federal Trade Commission and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. The documents, which have implications for health care, lay out a consistent approach to protecting personal data privacy.