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healthcare providers via a network approach—with one business relationship and one integration go-live—as opposed to building many BAA-driven relationships and integrations with individual healthcare organizations and their EHRs. new test results) or you need to be able to write data back to their charts in EHRs.
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Examples of things that will still be considered medical devices include: software programs that are intended to process or analyze medical images. patterns acquired from a processor like an electrocardiogram that use analytical functionalities to make treatment recommendations. signals from in vitro diagnostic devices.
Examples of things that will still be considered medical devices include: software programs that are intended to process or analyze medical images. patterns acquired from a processor like an electrocardiogram that use analytical functionalities to make treatment recommendations. signals from in vitro diagnostic devices.
Examples of things that will still be considered medical devices include: software programs that are intended to process or analyze medical images. patterns acquired from a processor like an electrocardiogram that use analytical functionalities to make treatment recommendations. signals from in vitro diagnostic devices.
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Fred’s shorthand definition: “Using FOIA requests and other sorts of collaborations to get covered-over data out of the realm of the useless and into the realm of the useful.” He also partners with journalists (like the folks at ProPublica , for example) — to get data out to the public in a useful manner.
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