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- Health IT groups unveil regulatory timeline
The North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communications Alliance and the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange have launched their first regulatory timeline to help inform industry stakeholders about health IT initiatives. The timeline outlines the implementation of version 5010 of the HIPAA standard transactions and estimates completion by 2014. Health Data Management
(12/6)       
 | Healthcare IT Transition Group provides independent research, analysis and development guidance to the health IT industry. For release mid-November: The Health IT Grant Resource Directory, offering groundbreaking strategies and listing thousands of funding resources. |
- Bar codes aim to reduce surgical-sponge errors
Hospitals including Loyola University Medical Center near Chicago are using bar codes on sponges to help reduce the chance that a sponge will be left inside a patient following a surgical procedure. Nurses or doctors scan the sponges before and after use to track the total count. Chicago Sun-Times
(12/6)
- UCSF installs Awarepoint tracking system
The University of California San Francisco Medical Center has installed Awarepoint's wireless-sensor tracking system for OR equipment, which includes battery-powered tags and a Web-based search engine for keeping tabs on equipment across the facility. Healthcare IT News
(12/5)
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- Doctor-networking sites seen as means to help reform health care
Physician networks such as Sermo have emerged and allow doctors to discuss cases, get information on drugs and treatments, and improve their business operations. Walk-in clinics, transparency in medical information and accountability for one's health are other trends outside of the traditional medical industry that this Financial Times article says could reform the U.S. health care system. Financial Times (free content)
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- Consortium to establish security standards for EHRs
Nine medical companies have formed a consortium to produce a set of security standards for the protection of electronic medical records. The security practices, which will be managed by Texas-based Health Information Trust Alliance LLC, are expected to eliminate the need for auditing an organization's data protection practices, a CVS Caremark Corp. executive said. The Wall Street Journal (free content)
(12/5)
- PHR model gets approval as trial draft standard
The Personal Health Record System Functional Model has received approval as a trial draft standard from Health Level Seven. The model outlines several security features and functions that may be present in PHR systems and provides guidelines for exchanging data among PHRs or with EHR systems. Health Data Management
(12/6)
- LiveData to develop OR workflow standards with grant
The U.S. Army Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center has awarded LiveData a grant to develop standards for medical-device interoperability and OR workflow. LiveData and its team will propose and assess ICE implementation architecture that will provide a "bridge technology" while the standard evolves. Healthcare IT News
(12/4)
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