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Practice Fusion to Pay $145 Million In Fines To Resolve Kickback Investigations

Healthcare IT Today

Practice Fusion, a San Francisco-based EHR vendor with a controversy-rich history, has agreed to pay $145 million to settle allegations that it engaged in a kickback scheme designed to increase opioid prescriptions and issues with their meaningful use EHR certification. This had been […].

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Weekly Roundup – April 27, 2024

Healthcare IT Today

They discussed how AI can expedite the discovery of new drugs , along with why it helps to bring together the best AI professionals and experts from pharmaceutical companies. Read more… Exchanging, Managing, and Meaningfully Using Health Data in 2024. John Lynn connected with Mati Gill at AION Labs.

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Patients and Industry: Starting Our New Life Together in 2023

Society for Participatory Medicine

Our honeymoon commenced in April with what some pharmaceutical sponsors refer to as a “mandate” to show proof of a diversity, equity, and inclusion plan “as soon as practical” in the new drug application process, further solidified by the passage of the omnibus spending package at the end of 2022.

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When sponsored CDS is a crime …

Docnotes

We had a small team that worked closely with pharmaceutical companies and generated revenue from these relationships. I wasn’t very involved with this team, but due to my ownership of many of the clinical decision support initiatives, I started getting invited to meetings we had with pharmaceutical companies.

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Microsoft, Amazon, Google, IBM, Oracle, and Salesforce issue joint statement for healthcare interoperability

Lloyd Price

In the context of US healthcare, many health record systems have focused on consistent representation for a key set of data elements defined by the Meaningful Use Common Clinical Data Set. Open standards, open specifications, and open source tools are essential to facilitate frictionless data exchange.