Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 13, 2023

The following is a guest article by Sonia Chambers, Executive Director at West Virginia Health Information Network. Infrastructure is available nationally for states to leverage and customize locally for their unique Health Information Exchange needs.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 25, 2024

The Cost of a Cybersecurity Breach Cybersecurity at its core is a way to protect valuable data and personal identifiable information (PII), such as credit card information, social security numbers, tax records, and more.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 21, 2023

Executives for Health Innovation will wind down operations over the remainder of the year. Formed in 2001 as the eHealth Initiative, EHI has advocated for federal reimbursement for e-prescribing, EHR use, and telehealth, all while convening competitors to foster industry-wide collaboration.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 11, 2023

In the 2001 repor t, Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) proposed a strategy to improve the US healthcare system. Identifying six aims, the report outlined the need for healthcare to be safe , effective , patient-centered , timely , efficient , and equitable.

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GlobalMed

JUNE 10, 2019

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2001. “You just swallow it and it transmits pictures to a TV screen,” the doctor explained. Sounds crazy, right? A silly and exaggerated cartoon idea about the future. Yet capsule endoscopy was approved by the U.S.

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GlobalMed

JUNE 2, 2020

Space has inspired some of our finest writers like Isaac Asimov and Ursula Le Guin, as well as Hollywood odysseys like Star Trek and 2001: Space Odyssey. “In the next generation vehicle, when we go to Mars and the Moon, why wouldn’t we have telemedicine available?”. Beyond Our Cosmic Backyard.

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GlobalMed

MAY 31, 2019

In 2001, a prisoner taken to University Medical Center in Lubbock, Texas took two nurses hostage and assaulted them. One 2013 emergency room incident turned violent when an inmate visiting the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary fought with his security guards. He was shot in the chest and a deputy sheriff was shot in the leg.

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